BMW Eater?

Test driving the new 2009 Subaru WRX was as much fun as I expected. My one regret was that I didn't get to drive the WRX STI which is rarely ever available to purchase let alone test drive.

Is the STI a BMW ETR? I don't know for sure but checking out the written specs it would seem so. The BMW M3 costs around $70K the STI $35K. 0-60 in the M3 takes about 4.6 secs, the STI, a meer 4.4 secs. At half the price and with as many rally wins as WRX's have, some might say, "dinner is served".


2008 WRX STI pictured above. No real external differences from the 2009 model.