2025 Subaru Cars: What’s New With Impreza, Legacy, BRZ, and WRX
Say goodbye to the Legacy as a very colorful new edition of the BRZ arrives.
For 2025, Subaru focuses on its sporty models, making some attractive changes to the WRX sedan and BRZ coupe. Although the Legacy sedan isn’t so different from last year, Subaru makes an important announcement about its future. Read on to see everything new about the 2025 Subaru car lineup.
2025 Subaru Impreza: What’s New
Subaru’s compact AWD hatchback, the Impreza, carries over unchanged into 2025. This makes sense given that a new generation of Impreza made its debut the prior year with a stiffer platform, an updated torque-vectoring AWD system, and no more manual transmission option.
2025 Subaru Impreza: Pros and Cons
Pros
- Attractively low starting price
- Rides, steers, and handles nicely
- Confidence-adding driver assist features and AWD
Cons
- Infotainment could use improvements
- Is cheap, feels cheap
- Subaru Crosstrek crossover seems to make more sense
2025 Subaru Legacy: What’s New
On the midrange Legacy Limited trim, built-in navigation, a power moonroof, heated steering wheel, and driver distraction monitoring system become standard equipment for 2025. Subaru has announced that production of the Legacy will cease in the spring of 2025.
2025 Subaru Legacy: Pros and Cons
Pros
- Comfortable and easygoing driving manners
- Sure-footed AWD system
- Available turbocharged engine with more power
Cons
- Base engine feels wheezy
- Slow infotainment responses
- Not much fun or personality
2025 Subaru BRZ: What’s New
This engaging Subaru car gets sportier for 2025 thanks to the addition of a Sport mode on all manual-equpped models, which sharpens accelerator responses. In its higher-end Limited trim, the 2025 Subaru BRZ also gets more faux suede and darker red leather accents around the interior.
Continuing its tradition of creating special editions for the BRZ, Subaru rolls out the BRZ Series.Purple for 2025. As its name suggests, the car is distinguished by exclusive Galaxy Purple Pearl exterior paint, but it also wears satin silver 18-inch wheels and black trunklid badging. Although just as powerful as any other BRZ, the Series.Purple has an STI short-throw manual transmission shift kit and additional bracing under the hood for tighter responses. Only 500 copies of the 2025 Subaru BRZ Series.Purple will be produced.
2025 Subaru BRZ: Pros and Cons
Pros
- Sporty handling
- Nice six-speed stick-shift transmission
- Excellent BRZ tS model
Cons
- Soul-sucking automatic transmission
- Not so spacious or practical
- Gets loud inside the cabin
2025 Subaru WRX: What’s New
For the 2025 WRX sport sedan, Subaru has announced the addition of the performance-focused tS model. According to Subaru, tS stands for “Tuned by STI,” and although that means it’s not a true WRX STI, the car still comes with upgrades including gold-painted Brembo brakes, electronically controlled suspension dampers, and trim-specific 19-inch wheels wearing sticky Bridgestone Potenza S007 tires. Is the WRX tS more powerful than the standard WRX? Not even by a single horsepower.
The Subaru car gains a red grille badge, gloss black exterior trim details, and blue accents on the Recaro front sport seats and other areas. Another notable update is the 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster, Subaru’s first all-digital gauge display, which will likely spread to other WRX models.
2025 Subaru WRX: Pros and Cons
Pros
- New WRX tS model is happy on the road or racetrack
- Spacious and comfortable interior
- Good six-speed manual transmission
Cons
- Turbo lag leads into narrow powerband
- Twitchy steering responses
- Just not fun enough for the WRX legend
2025 Subaru Cars:
- 2025 Subaru Impreza: Unchanged
- 2025 Subaru Legacy: Minor update
- 2025 Subaru BRZ: Minor update
- 2025 Subaru WRX: Minor update
Alex's earliest memory is of a teal 1993 Ford Aspire, the car that sparked his automotive obsession. He's never driven that tiny hatchback—at six feet, 10 inches tall, he likely wouldn't fit—but has assessed hundreds of other vehicles, sharing his insights on MotorTrend as a writer and video host.
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