2015 Subaru WRX STI Reviewed and Driven

Ryan takes a look at the (mostly) all-new Subaru WRX STI. How does this new car shape up versus the old and how well does it do on a closed course? We head to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to find out!

The 2015 Subaru WRX STI features the same 2.5-liter H4 engine as the outgoing model with 305-horses and attached to Subaru's Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive system. However, for 2015 it gets an all-new chassis. Does it add up to the best STI ever?

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[sharik]

This car is AMAZING!  I've had my STi for 3 weeks and absolutely LOVE IT!!!  I am new to the Subie World so forgive me for not knowing about past models, however, my daughter purchased the 2014 STi Tsurugi edition in February and that is when I fell in love :-).  I can hardly wait to get on a closed track!

[casperaudi]

This video by far is one of the best video in YouTube keep up the Great Work..Great Job

[BboyMobster]

I love when this guy does car reviews! He made me want a Bmw 135i since I saw the review lol. I have watched the video more than 6 times!

[genericdenizen]

Good review. I recently bought a 2015 WRX STi Launch Edition with a manual transmission and it's a great driver's car. Driving the STi like a madman on bumpy backroads, as I frequently do, I'm too busy having fun to notice that the interior is just okay. For the price, the STi is a great performance car. No, it isn't a refined luxury sports sedan from Lexus - thank goodness. There are too many comfy, wanna-be sports sedans with soft suspensions and an automatic-only transmission (like the lame Audi S-3 that is automatic-only, here in the United States). If you actually like driving fast and aren't trying to impress your neighbors with a sleek, stylish fashion statement - buy an STi. Buy an STi and enjoy driving it before every car turns into a comfy, sleepy cruiser like Audi and BMW have become or, just as awful, before every car turns into a joyless appliance like the Nissan Leaf or Prius.

[AndyRoss-zt]

Even after all these years legendary. I've now moved to a fully loaded 2023 WRX 6speed Sport Tec. Love it. Fun, very flat in power delivery and just a bit more civilized than previous generations. Just a bit.

[Spokes]

YES finally someone else realizes it too - that silver accent on the bottom of the wheel drives me crazy it just looks so out of place but whatever this is still by far and away the best STI wheel yet.

[WRXmoi]

Excellent video - both informative and delivered in an entertaining way with excellent footage in-car and on the road/track.

[ThePinoyMamba]

The best review of this car!
Way better than motor Trend!

[Racer_Mike]

Drove it and a lot of other cars this year and loved it. The handling is really good and like he said it has great turn in. Best bang for the money for sure. I would buy it but just can't get past it having the same 10 year old engine, same brakes, same transmission etc.

[sdegooyer]

Great video, great car! I love my 2016 STi.

[BigZman]

While the FA20 gets better MPG and makes power more easily (this is according to Crawford NOT my personal opinion) the EJ is still nothing to complain about. It has it's problems sure, but it also has a decade of experience, parts and knowledge about it. If Subaru does it right (which I trust them 100% to) I would welcome a switch to the FA20 for the STi (although hopefully an FA25) but for now I see nothing wrong with what they chose to do. Making power with mods isn't that hard, but the understeer needed to be worked on. And Subaru has taken care of that so the 2015 STi is a huge win in my book.

[chappyTHO]

i already love the look. it will grow on everyone.

[jordfoth]

they need to make another 2 door with the 22b body style just with a few changes to make it look modern i think it would be sick 

[glocklover]

I have one of these and coming off my 2011 wrx hatch I it. Handles fantastic.

[ALMXDP]

Learn something new everyday. At first I thought that there was a slip when stating Mark Higgins' name, however come to see that he is David Higgins brother, and both are world renown and both drive under the Subaru banner. I must have always confused the two for being one person; one miraculously good superhuman of a rally driver.

[a]

I've had what will be 4 subarus now. A 1991 Loyale, a 2002 Bugeye WRX, a 2005 STi and now a 2015 STi Limited is on the way. Once you experience an STi you never want to go back..usually. There's just nothing else like them. My 05 has so far been the best car I've ever owned.

[macfan]

I really hope they keep the STI with equal length headers when they switch over to the FA engine.

[blackmist]

The main problem with Subaru is that they don't evolve their STi motor often enough... at least here in the states. This car really should have had closer to 400hp and more torque. 

[elusivellama]

Did the Subaru engineers actually imply that the new engine for the STi will be a 2.5L FA? I've seen some hints / rumors and the major changes are probably not going to happen for at least 2 years, probably 3 years. At that time, the STi will most likely run on the Subaru Global Platform and get the FA engine (at last)...

[Dgoose]

Glad i bought one.. launch edition I LOVE it! very responsive!