For 2025, Subaru updated the WRX to now include the tS, which at first glance appears to be the same flannel-wearing street ...

My test day ends at The Thermal Club's 1.4-mile Desert Circuit, featuring a variety of corners that allow me to experience the RA in its element. Through fast sweepers, the car is comfortably planted.

It's called the "Dagger Edition" and works with the WRX too, not just the STI, provided they are 2015MY or later. It consists of a total of 12 pieces that puff out the bodywork by 50mm.

This is, of course, still not a WRX STI. The tS badge, which is worryingly close to the TR badge on a very different WRX variant, stands for "tuned by STI." Just as with Japan's WRX S4 STI Sport ...

Subaru does offer some sportier versions of the WRX, but the STI hasn't been around since 2021. The first Subaru WRX STI debuted in 1994 and took a full decade to reach audiences in the United States.