To this unpromising base Subaru has added, for the STI, blistered arches, a deep front valance whose vane-flanked foglights are a desperately clutched straw from past turbocharged Imprezas ...

So now Subaru has decided to pull the plug and instead of launching a replacement it will ‘allow the WRX STI’s heritage to inform future developments’. Hmmmm.... Still, rather than go out ...