The biggest change underneath the WRX has to be its engine. The new 2.5L flat 4 has replaced the outgoing model’s 2.0L engine as WRX’s sole engine, on the other hand, the awesome STI remains using the higher boost version of the 2.5L turbocharged flat-4 as in the more mainstream WRX. Thanks to the extra displacement, the annoying turbo lag at 3000rpm in outgoing WRX has become a thing of history.
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