It’s been with us since 1994, but Subaru has recently announced that it has stopped importing the WRX STI into the UK, and has no plans to revive the model - better known as the Impreza - in the foreseeable future.
Its status as one of the all-time great performance cars was cemented in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the Japanese saloon car scooped up a number of WRC titles, with greats such as Colin McRae and Richard Burns at the wheel.
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The company recently cut the price of its WRX STI model in the UK to £26,995, but extremely low demand due to high CO2 emissions and competition from ever-quickening hot hatches has killed the fast Impreza in the UK for good.
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