What Killed The Next-Generation Subaru STI And Why It’s Not Coming Back

Foolish foolish Subaru. Alas you suck up to California nut jobs and their worthless “leadership” in killing combustion powered engines because you bought the lies about greenhouse gasses and global warming. Shame on you. Don’t you dare ever put the name STI on any EV garbage.

You know it is not the market that is moving on its own, it is the regulations that forces the market to shift. Yet, the climate will still do whatever it wishes, like it did for so many millions of years.

Subaru announced in 2015 they were incorporating electrification in the STI, but it was at a time when the tools they had were more like beefing up a Prius (2014 Crosstrek Hybrid era). So with the massive technological leaps BEV’s have taken recently, such as electric cars that have almost double the power of similar ICE cars, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Subaru is focusing on taking the STI brand in this direction. I’m sure the work going into the STI E-RA (if it’s not just a marketing thing) is forming the foundation of the next generation of their electric vehicle platform (hopefully soon and much better and more capable than the one Toyota shoehorned them into). Ever since Yamaha announced a year ago that they were developing low weight high performance motors for vehicles I’ve been waiting to see what manufacturers they were going to partner with. Now with the STI E-RA using the Yamaha motors I’m hopeful the entire Subaru line will benefit.

Well I was going to buy the next generation sti for my next car in 2 years. Looks like I'll never buy a subaru product in my life. I can't wait for subaru to become as irrelevant as mitsubishi after they axed the Evo.

What should my next car be? C8 corvette, Nissan z, supra, golf r, mustang? I'll give my money to a company that listens to enthusiasts, not one that torments them.

you are evolving before time. that means u don't make a decision by urself. u just seem like puppets.. wherever you do has consequences.

Never mind all the arguments that CA. Cant I even power its own power needs during the hot summer months, or that its main electrical provider PG&E simply does not have the infrastructure to meet the needs of EV’s, and like the bullet train to know where project is a complete financial failure. The simple truth, is that if the US gets another pro domestic oil production President and gas returns to $2.75-$3.20 range, this whole pro green EV agenda goes away like a bad nightmare. With gas and inflation at a all time high, and the absolute failure of leadership at both the domestic and international level by the current US president, it will not be long before a complete 180 flip happens.

Makes no sense. The platform was already set up with the new 22 wrx so im sure the sti was already developed by this point. All this for California. What a load of crap. Big mistake for subaru.

This is unbelievable. Seriously?! :mad:

I like how this article didn't mention anything about the STI engine failure lawsuits. I bet that had nothing to do with it, RIGHT!

The poor reaction from the terrible new body style and extremely underwhelming performance killed it

Why should California and U.S. EPA set the course and standard for great automakers, when their own policies are self destructive in nature?

All automakers should be able to see this, and following the rules set for them by the voices that yell the loudest, will only lead to their unfortunate demise.

Also reason they aren't releasing, everyone hates the new wrx and got horrible feedback and spinless subaru f*** themselves cuz the sti was also trash and not much different from the last.... so why bother releasing it, just more bs excuses for their failures

And here we have more and more idiot falling for scam of global warming so be it destroy everything we have up to date. All this electrification will fall as grid can’t ever support the demand. And how about production of so much energy from nuclear oil or coal what’s scam. So be it they can make whatever they want. At the end everyone will suffer paying 10x what we paid for petroleum gas vehicles to run. I guarantee

I think everyone can agree at this point that we just need to force california to succeed and leave the US entirely. The land is genuine dogshit, the climate if awful, the people there are somehow worse than anything else in that horrid state which is mind blowing considering just how awful california is as a whole.They've effectively ruined the car industry to pat their own backs on not making a single measurable change in the climate for all their bitching. Meanwhile in the same breath being the industry leaders in corporate pollution and the mass emission of green house gases from the absurd electrical energy generation facilities that are supposedly meant to "clean the atmosphere by producing less harmful toxins than combustion engines".

californians are a joke.

Well using my 2022 WRX Premium as a base, I guess I'll just have to build my own STi.