Toyota killed them
>>28796283Do you have any proofs?
>>28796285Not that anon but a quick crackpot theory, go back a decade or so>Be toyota >own a share of subaru>ej boxer sooner or later needs to be replaced due to age/emission>""""co-develop""""" a new chassis (FRS) to boost production of FA series + transition the rest of the fleet to new engine>this also puts the WRX, over time+inflation pricing, as a better buy than an sti. >Ej and sti killed off>This opens a new slot for yota to shoehorn their AWD GR crap as the premier awd rally meme machine with a new timebomb engine and manual offering
>>28796283They killed themselves. The wrx got cucked year over year
>>28796283Less killing and more assimilated. Right now they're just a different offering for Toy Yoda owners. The RAV4 is pretty good but you don't want to pay Toyota tax? you go get yourself an Outback. Want something smaller? get yourself a Crosstrek. And the Forester remains there because.... it's just there alright?
>>28796283Making their cars bigger and uglier but not any better killed them.
>>28796283Nah, regulations killed them. They've made baisically the same car for, what, 25 years? And more time prior to that iterating on the same exact idea? Persisting for this long with a longtitudional AWD-obligate non-luxury sedan (sometimes wagon-ified and/or lifted) is an amazing achievement, especially considering they started doing it when everyone else stopped doing it. But times are changing. They need smaller engines than their 2-liter lump, they need an efficient drivetrain and they need hybrid options, and that's all stuff Toyota has. As great as Subaru was, they can't survive in the increasingly cucked market, and keeping hands busy assembling Toyotas is better than oblivion.
>>28796283They killed themselves. Toyota was just trying to hook them up by partnering with them to make the Toyobaru twins. They also quit rallying. Literally no exposure for casuals to even notice. Just shitty echoes of past glory.
Prodrive fumbling the WRC and then separating from rally all together crippled them. They've been coasting on wins from a quarter of a century ago, almost as bad as the Americans riding a Le Mans win from half a centuryb ago.
>>28796289When I was on the GR Corolla hype train I've always thought that the STI wasn't killed off, they're just simply taking turns. Get the WRX out first then let them cook on the STI. I wonder if Toyota forced Subaru to design ugly cars, if anything.
>>28796854Subaru is actually teasing a new STI for the 2026 model year, full announcement this Friday.https://x.com/SUBARU_CORP/status/2004145626116931843
>>28796283They killed themselves by producing that god awful boxer engine that was NOT made for handling boost and already came out of the factory trying to grenade themselves for 30-odd years
>>28796283I didn't know they were dead?Anyway I've historically disliked subaru for churning out the exact same car forever and I don't like fwd-based 4wds or their garbage engines BUT I did gain a tiny bit of respect for subaru last time I looked at the classifieds. When searching for manual cars only it's like 50% subarus so I have t give them kudos there.
