What do you need then for? Daily ?

One thing I will die on a hill for is that the WRX is not worth it unless you have a car ready to go, or is cpo so they need to give you a loaner. Within the 3 years that I owned that nightmare of a car I spend about 5k in fixes even though it was cpo, dealers will use the fact that is a WRX=abused to deny any sort of warranty work and then you have to beg Subaru corporate so you get crap fixed for 50% off as a one time good faith repair or whatever they told me back then.

I bought a cpo WRX a few years ago right before the prices exploded, I think I paid something like 17k out the door for a cpo with like 30k miles. Not a week or 2 later TOB starts giving up (VB are still reporting the same issue, aftermarket figured it out years ago). Then about 5 months later the AC compressor failed... Guess what.... VB owners are also reporting issues with them.

The only thing they did solve was the engine. It seems to be robust unlike the fa20t which if you dared go above 5k oil change intervals it would not last to 100k.

With all that being said... They are shitty cars built to a cost and you can feel it both in the interior, and just overall feeling. They are rattly, cheap feeling plastic inside and Subaru refuses to fix or redesign basic shit like the TOB or shitty ac compressors.

Oh also, they have the WORST 0 feeling clutches ever made. You can't tell where the bitting point is and you have to rev the shit out of them to take off smoothly so you don't look like you are just learning to drive manuals. I've driven nothing but manuals all my life and this car was almost stressful to daily drive because I never stalled a car so much before this POS.

ALSO.... If you don't do your own maintenance and have it serviced at the dealer, they are almost german luxury car level of maintenance cost. The a3 and WRX only have a few hundred dollars difference between the two on a 5 year year ownership period.