Subaru WRX/STI: The Complete History, Legend & Tuning Potential

The Subaru WRX STI built its legend the same way the Mitsubishi Evo did — on a rally stage, not a drag strip. Our book, Subaru WRX/STI: The Complete History, Legend & Tuning Potential, is out now on Amazon in Kindle and print, and it treats every generation of this car with the depth a proper generation-by-generation buying guide actually needs — not a single chapter trying to cover thirty years of engineering at once.

What's Inside

You get dedicated deep dives into the GC8, GDB, GRB and GVB/GJ generations, each with its own history, its own reasoning for why Subaru built it the way they did, its own buying guide, and its own modification dos and don'ts. We cover the EJ20 and EJ25 boxer engines and why their unique layout became a tuning platform unlike anything else in this series, the symmetrical AWD system that made this car a rally weapon before it was ever a street car, and the WRC era that built the reputation everything since has traded on.

This is the same generation-by-generation approach we use in the rest of our JDM Legends Series — the Skyline, Supra and RX7 all get it too, but the Subaru's generational differences are arguably the widest in the series, which is exactly why it needed this treatment.

Why You Want This One

If you're cross-shopping generations, trying to work out whether a GC8, GDB or GRB actually fits what you want, or you just want to understand why the STI badge means what it means, this book replaces guesswork with an actual generation-specific answer. Pair it with our Mitsubishi Evo book if you want both sides of Japan's great rally rivalry in one shelf.

Get Your Copy

Subaru WRX/STI: The Complete History, Legend & Tuning Potential is available now on Amazon in Kindle and print — part of the JDM & Japanese Car Culture Book Series. Explore the rest of the series and more from Stance Auto Magazine at stanceauto.co.uk.