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Subaru Impreza WRX STI
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Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (9) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 5,455 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The era's halo car in its Australian form, with the American market already demonstrating what a perfect one is worth to somebody. Stock, low-km ADM cars are nearly extinct and the trajectory since 2019 has been one-way.
Only two of the four Australian results sit at real-world distance, and both are more than three years old. The US results that make headlines price a different engine, and a modified example, which is most of them, participates in little of the upside.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
That set correlates at minus 0.636 and implies 4.3 per cent per 10,000 kilometres; stripping the two delivery-distance outliers leaves eleven cars fitting at minus 0.412 and 2.8 per cent. At the 120,000 kilometres this record expects the two fits return $40,929 and $40,445 - within $500 of each other, which is the closest agreement between two independent fits in this library. The value moves $45,000 to $41,000 and the distance penalty from 1.2 to 3.5, the blend of the two.
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A Spec C Type RA made $70,000 at 85,780km in October 2023, roughly seventy per cent above the ordinary curve at that distance, while another Spec C Type RA at 232,250km made $24,850 - the specials command a premium only while the distance is low. A delivery-distance car made $86,000 at 8,858km in March 2021.
A WRX Club Spec Evo 8 at $8,000 is a base WRX, not an STI, and belongs to a different car entirely.
Eight of these listings carry the identical VIN, 6ZZ00000GDB032485, across different years, distances and states. It is a placeholder, not a chassis number, so VINs from this source cannot be used to detect a car being relisted or flipped - which is how two flips were caught elsewhere in this library. SOURCING: aggregator-surfaced results, unconfirmed against the auction house, the weakest evidence grade here.
An 8,858km one-owner MY04 STI in World Rally Blue sold on Collecting Cars out of Melbourne in March 2021, but the platform no longer publishes the price, so the one known transaction cannot anchor a level. Everything else here is research. The Australian MY03-05 STI listed at $56,630 with the 2.0-litre EJ207 at 195kW and a six-speed manual.
American blobeye STIs have brought spectacular money (a near-perfect unmodified 2004 made US$112,000 in early 2026), but the American car runs the 2.5-litre EJ257, a different engine to the Australian and Japanese EJ207 cars, so those results price a different machine. They demonstrate demand for the era at full strength; they do not translate to an Australian figure.
Applies in reverse here: international data that looks relevant and is not. What the American results do establish is that condition and originality dominate: the six-figure cars are the untouched ones, and the gap between stock and modified is the widest in the class.
A Subaru WRX STI sedan, generation unstated, sold for just $22,000 at Shannons in February 2022. Whatever that car was, it is what an ordinary STI is worth when the originality story is absent - the halo numbers belong to exceptional cars only. One more marker from the same house: a 2000-model WRX STi - GC8-generation - made $45,000 at Shannons in 2024, which sits exactly where this GD value sits and supports the read that the era's ordinary cars trade in the forties.
$33,771, $34,500, $44,006 and $52,500 were being counted here as ordinary comparables, which they are not: the S203 is a 555-car STI Japan limited edition on a balanced engine with a titanium exhaust, and none came to Australia new. This record already set the S204 and the Spec C Type RA aside on exactly that reasoning; the S203 rows simply carried no marker. Two of the four also turned out to be one car - build number 440 of 555, sold at Cranbourne West in June 2023 and again at Beecroft in September 2025, up 2.2 per cent. Everything remaining here describes the ordinary GD STI.
With the S203, S204 and Spec C rows properly excluded, four ordinary GD STI results remain: $35,000 at 101,230km in November 2021, $40,150 at 80,432km in February 2023, $86,000 at 8,858km in March 2021 and $52,500 at 15,350km in October 2025.
The adjustment is limited to twelve per cent either way. A car at 8,858 kilometres sits 111,000 below the 120,000 this record expects, and the model can credit it with twelve per cent - so a one-owner delivery-distance survivor de-adjusts to $76,786, and a 15,350-kilometre Hawkeye to $46,875. Those are not valuations, they are the cap reporting that it has run out of room. This library cannot price a delivery-mileage GD STI and should say so rather than pretend.
At the expected 120,000 kilometres. The value moves from $41,000 to $37,000, above both because both are more than two and a half years old and the one recent result in the set - low-distance though it is - printed $52,500 in October 2025.
An ordinary Australian-delivered GD STI between 60,000 and 140,000 kilometres, sold recently. There is not one. Every recent result on this model is either a limited edition or a preserved car, which is exactly the sampling bias that makes an auction record read higher than the market it sits in.
The paragraph above says two of four results cannot be used because the cap cannot price a delivery-distance car. It can now. The model runs a constant-elasticity curve instead of a clamped straight line, and at 8,858 kilometres against the 120,000 this record expects it returns $72,150 where the cap returned $41,440. That car made $86,000 in March 2021, which indexes to about $82,140 in current money, so the model is now within twelve per cent of it rather than half of it.
So the new rail is doing at the top of the range what the old cap did across all of it. The rail sits at 1.95 times the carried value because no counted Australian sale in this library has ever exceeded 2.10 times its record's figure and the ninety-ninth percentile is 1.96. Two results that could not be used are now one result that is priced close and one that is priced high, which is progress and not a solution.
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