Performance junkies have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of a high-performance BRZ STI since the sporty coupe launched in 2011, but it looks as though that day may never come. In an interview with Motoring, Subaru Australia managing director Nick Senior revealed that there are no current plans for an STI model beyond the recently introduced WRX STI.
“The focus has been on growing [Subaru] sales around the world. We are still reasonably small as a manufacturer and resources are limited and have to be targeted,” he said.”That means at the moment there is no plan to have another STI model.”
Although disappointing, Senior’s announcement shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Earlier this year Toyota announced that it had canned plans for a hotter versions of the GT86/Scion FR-S – a sister car to the BRZ – because of weak sales.
There is still a glimmer of hope that Subaru could massage a bit more power from the BRZ’s 2.0L boxer-four, but such a model likely wouldn’t bow until near the end of the car’s lifecycle.
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