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2024 Subaru WRX TR Review

2024 Subaru WRX TR

MSRP: From $41,655

MPG: 19 city / 26 highway

Engine: 2.4 Liter Turbo’d Boxer 4-cylinder

Power: 271 hp / 258 TQ

0-60: 5.8 Seconds

Guy who did stuff: Yousef Alvi



Who's the racer that he told you to go see?
Y'all better listen up closely
All you cars that said that I turned too top
Or the Firm flop
Y'all are the reason Subie ain't been getting no sleep
So frack y'all, all of y'all
If y'all don't like me, let me blow off at thee
Y'all are gonna keep frackin’' around wit me
And turn me back to the old me

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothin' comes out when they move they wheels
Just a buncha tire squeals
And muthafrackas act like they forgot about the ‘WReX’
Nowadays everybody wanna race like they got something to say
But nothin' comes out when they move they wheels
Just a buncha tire squeals
And muthafrackas act like they forgot about the ‘WReX’

So what do you say to somebody you hate
Or anybody tryna bring trouble your way
Wanna resolve things in a racier way
Just study your tape of rally race day


Seriously, y’all forgot about the WRX. Utterly consumed with the likes of the Civic Si, GTI and EVs, the WRX has been standing stoically lost in the fray of hype. The only machine that combines turbo and AWD performance for the price of a FWD car…the WRX has always been an alternative choice.

Now I can understand with prior generations of the WRX, sure you got AWD grip and turbo shove but you also got a cacophony road noise, back breaking ride and trim pieces from the 1970s GM parts bin. So, if you wanted a semblance of ‘niceness’ you landed your bum in a Civic Si or a GTI. Since it’s introduction in 2002, each subsequent generation WRX has incrementally move the needle toward a bit more civility. Heck it wasn’t that long ago that it was reported that Subaru was attempting

So it shouldn’t that big of a shock that they finally made the WRX a bit more civilized for 2022. But apparently it was shocking,

Now this newest 2025 WRX TR finally makes good on that 2010 claim. It’s finally a nice, comfortable place to be that adds in a willing chassis, quick steering, stellar manual transmission and AWD grip. Oh yes the quirky WRX traits are still there but the added refinement that just elevates (not denigrate) the driving experience.

Let’s go ahead and break it down: