Manual 2025 Subaru tS inbound
Subaru has started teasing the hottest full-time member of its WRX line-upThe manual 2025 Subaru WRX tS has just been teased for the first time ahead of its national debut in the coming weeks.
Previewed via social media this week, the three-pedal tS is widely thought to be the permanent equivalent of last year’s limited-run Club Spec which was briefly available with a heap of STI goodies – wing, wheels, Recaro seats, performance brakes, sticky tyres, new suspension – but no extra firepower.
The special edition was limited to 150 units which meant only a handful of Aussies were able to enjoy the most aggressive take on the VB WRX to come to market thus far.
Seeing as manuals made up 48 per cent of all WRX sedan sales last year despite only two of the five available variants offering a three-pedal set-up, its hardly a surprise Subaru Australia has opted to deliver a manual version of its top-spec tS trim.
And with no factory-produced STI destined for our shores any time soon, it makes even more sense to spruce it up a little and make it sharper to drive – as per the Club Spec.
The 16-second teaser shows shadowy snippets of the manual tS’ badging, rear wing, Recaro bucket seats, gold Brembo brakes and an STI logo, but a sound bite of the 2.4-litre turbo-petrol flat four starting and running through the gears also sounds lumpier than usual, pointing to the possible fitment of a sports exhaust.
Australian homologation data has already confirmed the model won’t have any extra firepower over its established siblings and will probably forgo the automatic tS’ adaptive dampers in favour of the Club Spec’s more focused passive set-up.
Subaru has this far stayed quiet on the project and neither confirmed nor denied its existence on the record… until now with the publishing of the teaser.
The once formidable rally-bred brand likely won’t drag its heels for too long in introducing the new tS which will almost certainly slot into the range beneath the established tS and RS automatics – likely costing about $57,000 plus on-road costs.
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