Lol, no.
The engine will be garbage just like every other STI. The current ones are junk. My buddy's bone stock '18 spat a rod out the side of the block with 8k miles on it, and it's never been tracked or abused.
Also, I don't plan on ever owning a stick shift again, unless it's an older car.
Subaru's have one major selling point, and that's resale value.
No, my 11 cracked a ringland before 15,000 miles. They really are junk and nothing really has changed since 04. It’s amazing that people even consider these anymore. They were impressive in the mid 2000s, but the competition not only caught up but surpassed them by leaps and bounds and sadly Subaru has shown no signs of updating their halo car to keep up. From the manufacturers view point, I get it, plenty of people still buy them, from the enthusiast customer POV, there’s better options out there at the same or cheaper price ranges.
Hoons dead on, on resale value though, I sold mine for $3,300 less than I paid for it brand new, 3 years later. Wranglers and sti’s are almost depreciation proof, it’s weird to me, especially on the Sti, why not just buy a new one for what you have to pay on the secondary market, especially when you know how they’re generally treated, not that it matters, the motor will eat itself stock eventually just even sooner if modded.
I do have to say, with a set of winter wheels/tires, it’s the best vehicle I’ve ever driven in lots of snow and I’ve had all sorts of awd cars and 4x4 trucks not 1 could hold a candle to the winter prepped sti in the crap weather, assuming the engine stayed together lol
