Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 10:36pm
Sorry, this is not the long-awaited reincarnation of the STI. We’re expecting hybridization to invigorate the next one of those soon enough, for better or worse. In the interim, a new variant of the WRX—one delightfully free of thick orange cables and hefty battery packs—is being launched to fill a tiny gap in the lineup through the revival an old moniker: TR. Only this time around, instead of representing a “tuner-ready” no-frills version of this working folks’ Audi S4, the 2024 Subaru WRX TR is a high-end “track-ready” model, a manual-transmission version of the range-topping WRX GT.
