The long version

This is the STI that actually built the reputation, homologated for a WRC campaign that won three consecutive manufacturers titles while American buyers watched from outside a market Subaru never opened to them. The 25-year import rule has only recently made that history buyable here, and the buyers arriving now skew toward people who already know the EJ20 and DCCD center diff from the later US-market STI and specifically wanted the harder-edged original. Values have climbed as import eligibility widened, but nowhere near what the numbered 22B commands, since this was the volume car underneath the halo edition, not the trophy itself.