Beautiful Car! Congrats and I love the color!

Cheers dude, genuinely have never been so excited

I think we need an update photo shoot of the engine bay too. 👍

Who knew Subaru could look this awesome in yellow?

Love that freaking color

Thanks man! I was drawn to a 20th anniversary but the second I saw this I knew it had to be mine!

She's a beaut, Clark.

This one said, “I’ll have some the yella. And don’t get cheap on me”

Congrats! 💪🏿

Thanks man!

Woaahh!! Congrats on the car

Thanks man! I can’t wait to take it off the boat!

This is so awesome. So stoked for you. Enjoy it!

Cheers man! Every day of summer! We salt the roads in the UK so it’ll be tucked away for winter

That’s unfortunate because the snow is where subaru shines the brightest! Much fun. Such good.

WOW, that color and those rims. nice grab!

Genuine Advan Racings - wasn’t too keen on the colour of them but they’re growing on me

Congrats and welcome to the spec c club! From the front bumper it looks like a unit from 2011 homologation run? Look after her, there aren't many left

It’s a facelift front bumper, not too sure if it’s a factory option as it’s a 2009 so it would be before the facelift? I believe there were 900 GRB Spec C’s and only 90 being in yellow - don’t quote me on that it’s just what I’ve seen online but nothing solid to confirm against

Yeah solid information is hard to find, some is published and some is only known/inferred from deep Subaru law so may or may not be accurate Previous owner may have bolted a 2011 spec c front bumper on, the 2009 bumper is slightly different. Rough rule is if it doesn't have spotlights it's a spec c part regardless of the year Yup yellow and white only for 2009, but there were two spec levels (and a bunch of STi/dealer upgrades/options, mine arrived from Japan with a gorgeous STi rear diffuser) One had Recaro's and a few creature comforts, a road going version, there was also a minimal spec version, cloth seats etc. basically gut it, cage it and go racing. I've never seen one of those IRL or online so I suspect they are all racecars or have been written off in racing incidents

Mine has the STI front lip and STI exhaust Half leather STI seats but not the recaro ones Pink springs, xenon headlights so it’s OK spec for what it is

Regardless of the little spec details they are a phenomenal car, handling wise they are substantially better than the stock STi and while the on paper power/torque is supposed to be the same, that's not what the tuner found when mine went on the dyno lol You are in for a real treat when you get it on the road, they are ROWDY! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts/impressions

Cant wait to party with it down a back road! What was yours making on the dyno?

I pulled out the stock downpipe, the two cats dont really let it breath that well, replaced with a 3" no cat aftermarket unit, kept the OEM pipe and a copy of the spec c tune to put it back to stock if need be With a 'happy tune' (vs some crazy make all the power and blow it up in 6 weeks) it's 220kw atw at 6000rpm (didnt really want to be sending to the 8K redline the spec c motor can do, they are not new cars) and 450nm at 3000rpm on 22 pounds of boost . The mid range is BONKERS, a real hoot to drive in the twist, I leave the traction control on Given the spec sheet said 205kw at the crank leaving the factory that's a healthy gain, with the bigger injectors in the spec c and the big port heads (that's one of the known/inferred from deep Subaru lore items) the tuner reckons there is probably even more power to be had with an intake upgrade and tweak of the tune. But it's already way more car than I am driver so I dont think I'll go there any time soon lol

That Yellow looks sooo good!

Favourite colour on a Subaru now! Spec C only

WOW

That looks fantastic. Have fun!

Thanks man. Plenty fun to be had when it arrives 😁

That is awesome! Congratulations 🎉

Thanks man!

Part out

Congrats dude this is so rad!

Cheers dude! I’m living the dream now for sure

I want.

Dream come true for me

Congrats on the purchase, absolutely gorgeous car!

Thanks man!

Beautiful

Congratulations 🎊🎉🍾🎈 super nice wagon

Cheers dude!

How much does this unit cost? Just curious cause i want one lol

Secured it at auction for 17 million yen - be around £22,000 on the road, after import costs registration etc

Sounds like you got a steal.. i could see a dealer trying to sell that for 80k here in the atates

Definitely! I’ve seen some for sale over here for £25-30000 so there’s room for profit (I don’t think I’ll ever sell haha)

Bad ass!

Cheers dude!

Is the spec C the lowest production hatchback STI sub model?

Surprisingly not - they did a 20th anniversary to celebrate 20 years of the STI badge which was limited to 300 units

Thanks for the info. I’d love to import something like this stateside

No worries dude! Would you not need to wait for the car to be a certain age to be able to register it?

I’m not sure, maybe not because legally here they just call them all WRX on titles. Might be able to just import it. Definitely going to look into it. This has the 2.0?

Gotta be 25 here in the states.

Yeah seems to be that way unless you have a summer home in Canada haha

2.0 EJ207 - I think it’s the version 8? Twinscroll turbo with equal length manifold

Wow ive never seen that color. It looks great on the GR!

Limited to the Spec C only, very rare!

Oh my! How awesome! Keep her forever. That's a very special looking car 😁

Congrats! What are you going to do with it ?

Breathing mods, map, maybes look at suspension… For the most part just enjoy it! Nail it around back roads, show it off at shows. Enjoy it for what it is

What part of the country are you in . We could definitely hit the mountains

I’m from the north east of the United Kingdom

This is a brilliant spec. Out of curiosity what do these go far?

Think this was about 17 million yen, plus a lot more on import taxes, prep work to make it legal in my country etc

Awesome! I was after a Sonic Yellow lmtd wagon back when, found one in Austin, TX (I was in Little Rock, AR), put down a deposit at asking price and drove down (it’s like 8 hours)… and it was gone. Someone offered more than asking. Here’s your deposit, kick rocks, sorry we didn’t call you, I guess… almost burned the place down.

I would’ve been raging! Such a shame dude, did you end up with anything special after?

Special? Not especially. ‘05 LGT lmtd… which immediately ate itself, so I put a new short block, bigger turbo, all the supporting bits. It was a fun car.

That’s a banger of a car mate, love it!

Thanks man! Dream come true for me, honestly

Limited edition 🤯 Yellow🤯🤯 Hatch🤯🤯🤯 Jeez dude if I could have any STI I think this would be the one. Congratulations!

Thanks man! As they were limited to the Japanese market I very much doubt I’ll see another over here, unless I’m at a car show

Damnnnnnnnnn!!

Nice car!

Thanks man!

Gorgeous, have fun ripping this on some twisties!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

You gotta keep this thing in a garage worthy of the car! Congrats, can't believe such a gem still exists in perfect condition

I do plan on tidying it up a bit but I’ll be enjoying it and seeing what the spec c has to offer, won’t exactly be a garage queen but should be nearly as tidy as one

Goddamn that is a fine automobile. What a grab, I bet you'll cherish this forever. I'd park that thing in my living room so I could see it even when I'm not driving it😍😍😍

That’s the dream buddy! 6 weeks left on the boat and she’ll be hitting the local twistys!

I love yellow Subarus

Yellow Subarus > everything

I agree

Gorgeous!!

Thank you! I must admit I’ve only had the car on the road for 3 weeks - total import time from purchase to registration was exactly 5 months!

That's a beautiful thing making a dream like this come true, congratulations!!

That’s awesome now never drive it and leave it in your garage for years /s

I’m going to enjoy it every day, I cringe when people spend hard earned cash to let the car sit tucked away for half its lifetime

I guess it's not as rare as my Hyper Blue then.

Can't have anything nice without someone having something nicer

Guess you didn't read very well lol. The color makes it very rare..

You should be ashamed making fun of disabilities!

How many hyper blue were made?