Whenever a new Subaru WRX is revealed, it’s only a matter of time before a hotter STI version follows it up. We thought that’d be the case with the more powerful 2022 WRX that rolled out late ...

Whenever Subaru releases a new WRX, we expect its higher-performing sibling, the much-loved WRX STI, to follow closely behind. And with the introduction of the 2022 WRX last year, we assumed we'd ...

Instead, we get nothing. A Subaru spokesmen told Road & Track that the automaker couldn’t justify creating a new WRX STI for a market that’s rapidly switching to electric power.

At the time, we said it was as close to a new STI as we were going to get, but as it turns out, we were wrong because Subaru just announced the WRX STI S210. Don’t get too excited, though.

The WRX S210 STI has a stylish new, sporty body kit, rally-inspired seats, and chassis and brake upgrades. On the surface, it looks right. However, otherwise, this isn’t an STi so much as an STi light ...

Japan does get an STI-badged WRX, though, and a new variant of that WRX S4 STI Sport is set to debut at the Tokyo Auto Salon next month. The WRX S4 STI Sport is more like a BMW M340i or a Hyundai ...

As part of that shift, the next STI won't come off the platform of the latest WRX, which just arrived earlier this year. While the new WRX rides on a version of the Subaru Global Platform that ...

That's still a substantial bump over the 2021 Limited. That trim started at $32,905. Just for a fun comparison, a 2021 base WRX STI starts at $37,245. That's only $255 more than the 2022 Limited.

Over the last five years, the average market value of the 2018 Subaru WRX STI has been a little over $30,500. The priciest recorded sale was $58,500, and the cheapest got $14,000.

In what may come as a shock to many of us, Subaru has announced that the new WRX it just launched will not be getting a higher-performance WRX STI model, at least not one based on the 2022 Subaru WRX.