A Subaru BRZ STI Might Finally Be Happening

Subaru has Tweeted out a teaser appearing to show a massive wing affixed to the back of a BRZ, with '#STI' at the end of the message

The Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT86 twins have been with us for five years now, but a properly hot version of either one continues to elude us. That might just be about to change.

We’ve had dollops of false hope so many times, but this time it might actually be happening on Subaru’s end, with the Subaru USA Twitter account tweeting out what looks to be the back end of a BRZ with a huge STI-branded wing attached. Oh, and there’s an ‘STI’ hashtag, just after a date - 8 June 2017. So whatever this is, we won’t have long to wait until we find out.

The rear wing certainly seems to match the one fitted to a BRZ prototype that’s been seen in various spy shots, so we’re crossing our fingers hard right now.

Subaru released the STI Performance concept in 2015
Subaru released the STI Performance concept in 2015

Should this be the BRZ STI we’ve all be hoping for, there’s a big question mark as to what would power it. The STI Performance concept Subaru released in 2015 was packing a race-derived 2.0-litre boxer-four with anything up to 450bhp, depending on who you spoke to. A less extreme version of that would do quite nicely.

Of course, there is a chance this is another false dawn, and what’s actually being cooked up is a range of chassis and aero improvements. We’re intrigued/terrified to find out…

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AmilBRZ 🌐

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👍

05/31/2017 - 14:38 |
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H4R1S_01

This would compete nicely with an m2

05/31/2017 - 09:49 |
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Poke

Would the GT86 version be named GRMN?

05/31/2017 - 10:07 |
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Anonymous

Finaly some stuuuuu, the braaappp was feeling lonely!

05/31/2017 - 10:12 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Braps are only for rotarys lol

05/31/2017 - 15:07 |
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Muhammad Haqy Aunoora

well, let’s just hope subaru doesn’t make several teaser video before the actual release…. just sayin’

05/31/2017 - 10:21 |
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Anonymous

All thst hype for 30hp extra.

05/31/2017 - 10:42 |
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5:19.55

The brz and the gt86 are gt300 car (japanese super gt) and can win race. It was time to do the sti version

05/31/2017 - 10:50 |
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Will 13

P

05/31/2017 - 11:41 |
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DannyWRX

oh boy oh boy… I recently bought a 2014 WRX if they release some crazy thing like AWD and turbo in the brz im switchin!

05/31/2017 - 11:47 |
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Will probably never come with awd, and thats a good thing.

05/31/2017 - 12:38 |
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