New STi bites the dust
December 18, 2007 by Karl Peskett
Well, it didn’t take long, did it? The new Subaru Impreza WRX STi has just been released in Japan, and someone has broken the heart of every Subaru fan (us included) by crashing into one.
This car is feeling very sorry for itself, sitting in a smash repair yard in Japan. The talk on the internet hasn’t been kind, ranging from comments like “The rear end looks less like a Focus now. Improvement for the better!” to the universally overused “that’ll buff right out.”
And think: he only took 282km to do it, too.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks to Tom Jakovljevic for the pics.
Print it: 
Ouch – how would you feel? Dented pride…. MUCH!
*****PRIMO!*****
How long before we see these in PunchBowl, all riced with stickers and doof_doof_doof_doof LOUD music coming out of it.
Ugly car, the crash didnt improve it :-)
Cheers
F-0
No amount of buffing compound will get that out!
Poor guy…….
Hey Frugal One…….I doubt you will,they have grown up too much now to attract that market type!
Obviously hit in the rear corner by a truck.
It’s probably already been bought by a panel beater in NZ who will import it and fix it.
Frugal One you are a very sad clown…
Well at least it would ‘appear’ that the STi did not lose control. Seems to be a very bad case of rear ending. The car otherwise looks remarkably in tact which is testament to the 5 star safety rating it has. Or maybe the brakes are that shit-hot that the donk at the back could not stop in time.
Looking at those tyres now – I think they could be somewhat wider – but that is one hell of muffler!
Was he at fault in this accident? If so it probably serves him right to have his pride dented.. If he wasnt at fault i feel sorry for him totalling a bloody fantastic car!!
Yep flying high I guess thats why its so quiet!
Scott C….I thought if you got hit from the rear it was the other drivers fault!
might have been reversing…..
Could’ve spun also in that AWD…just a thought.
On the other hand if this happened he wasnt doing the break in procedure correctly then was he?
He probably has just changed lanes too quickly for the 4WD behind him to react. The STI also has terrific breakes.
Too bad it wasn’t a Mitsu =P
Too bad it wasn’t your face =P
might have been safer as a sedan?
That doesnt need to get buffed, it looks better now :) Im suprised it took that long to do it :P
A real shame it’s those bloody idiots who get to drive dream machines like that one.
Ouch, that is really hard to watch!
Part it out! Part it out! I’ll take the brakes and the engine block!
This just reinforces the theory that japanese people can build cars, but they couldnt drive a greasy stick up a dogs arse
This was not an accident!
It was Subaru responding to customer feedback on how to make the rear end, and especially the tail-lights look better.
50% success!
You could buy that out of a SUBARU dealer and wouldnt even know the difference!
Hey I have just been to Auto blog and their using this from CA on their site……..You got the news before them guys…cool!
Best thing that could happen to a subaru, only another 20,000 left to do now :-D
and testament to the 5 star safety rating??
where are you looking? the cars smashed to bits!!!
the rear right passenger would surely be dead by that, there is metal in the cabin!
crap subaru drivers
It is a fact that the Impreza is the 1st and only small car to get the highest safety rating…especially over your beloved piece of crap Mitsu and Mazda3.
http://www.iihs.org/ratings/summary.aspx?class=40
Chris, Crash test are meant to protect you inside the car…not the outside. If you click on the pic and look at the inside…it’s just fine.
Monroe – Right on!
Chris. You surely are a great nob. Get back in the box.
how did the rear muffler stay intact?
missile,
i always thought if you were hit from behind it was the other drivers fault too, but boy did i have a hard time trying to explain to my insurance company how the guy who hit me in the rear QTR panel whilst i was stopped was the one at fault.
WHOHH-Outch….
It looks like it spunn out and the back hit something high as you can see the exhaust is still there.
OR a high truck slamed the back and pushed it into something Because it was high what the back hit, that’s why the exhaust is sill intact.
No idea how it stayed it intact??????
Really……..I thought the other party was always in the wrong ! Didn’t he have insurance??
Hope it wasn’t a victim of hooning.Exposes the current fad for four pipe exhausts for what it is.
the crash dident made it look better
All this talk of safety ratings is completely pointless. The photos alone don’t prove the speed at which the crash occurred. It could’ve been 10km/h or 110km/h – the former would mean the car is crap, the latter would mean it’s fantastic. We have no idea.
sod it, write them all off.
piece of rubbish scabaroo! best thing to happen to them, any volunteers to do the next one???!!
minds you, half the subaru drivers cannot drive anyway so were safe in the knowledge many more of these to come. mitsi all the way, always has been, always will be!!
performance cars! pah! nothing more than a tin on wheels with a big engine thrown in.
2.5ltr just to try and match mitsi’s power :-D says it all really.
good luck in your search for sanity and one day you lot will stop living in hope.
BM,
you hit the nail right on the head,
the joker that run into me was uninsured. 6 months after i already had the thing fixed i get a letter from my insurance company with an attached letter from the bloke that hit me trying to make out i came tearing through a giveway sign.
my take is he saw the $2000+ bill for something he termed a “knock the dent out and buff it job” and shat him self and started to make up excuses.
the thing that annoyed me most is my insurance company decided just to absorb the cost and not go any further to hammer the lying bugger.
a little lesson for everyone is even if you are not at fault and whether or not the other person is insured or not always put it through YOUR insurance company and let them chase it up for you.
i had it once when the other person was insured and dealing with his insurance company took for ever!!!! i eventually contacted my insurance company and they told me i should have gone through them and they would have saved me the headache.
so lucky i put the uninsured guy through my company other wise i would have not got the money.
Oh look, a riced-up crashed Hyundai…oh wait…it’s an Impreza…
What the hell was Subaru thinking with this latest shape? Too many model changes over a short time have at least allowed a killing on the second hand market…”old” cars which are two or three shapes old and no longer popular amongst the “I must have the latest model” brigade, means that the prices are dropping quickly, even for WRX’s…the unpopular “Corolla headlight” model is being sold in WRX form for down around $28000 locally…big drop in price in a short time…
giddity giddity giddity goo
Poor STi. ;(
Crash the man like this, who killed the car!
F*ck!
Ouch … Can i have the brakes?
that’ll buff right out
Oh My God!
Feeling the pain in my heart!
How does this happens?
I drive a Subaru Impreza to
Mines had driven 100.000 km.
It still lives!
Omg!
Alviero
sti all day,its all i do!
Well….all ive got to say is…drive safely!!!
want to sell the turbo, Ic, throttle body and tvg’s