- Subaru WRX gross sales elevated 52.6 % in April to 1,178 vehicles in comparison with the identical month final yr.
- The WRX begins $5,230 cheaper for 2026.
- WRX gross sales are nonetheless down 16.4 % year-to-date in contrast with 2025.
Seize your vape pen and four-wheel drift into your native 7-Eleven parking zone: The Subaru WRX is again, child. Subaru offered 1,178 WRXs in April, a significant 52.6 % enhance over the identical month final yr.
This enhance comes after Subaru introduced in January that it was bringing back the WRX’s base trim, which begins at $33,690, serving to trim costs throughout the board. The entry-level 2026 WRX undercuts the previously most cost-effective 2025 WRX Premium by $5,230, as we reported in January.
Though Subaru doesn’t get away the WRX’s gross sales outcomes by trim, it’s clear the revised pricing technique has introduced lovers off the sidelines and into Subaru dealerships, not less than in April. Yr-to-date WRX gross sales are nonetheless down 16.4 %, with Subaru shifting 4,680 items in comparison with 5,599 by this time final yr. However with the up to date fashions now arriving, April’s outcomes are a great signal for what’s to come back.
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WRX Gross sales: By The Numbers
The WRX must have a greater yr than it did in 2025. Final yr, gross sales fell some 41.2 % to a complete of simply 10,930 vehicles. The corporate revealed final July that it had restricted WRX manufacturing to focus capability at its Gunma, Japan, plant on the worthwhile Forester mannequin. With Forester manufacturing now expanded to the automaker’s Lafayette, Indiana, plant, that difficulty has been resolved.
| Apr 2026 Gross sales | Apr 2025 Gross sales | P.c Change | 2026 YTD Gross sales | 2025 YTD Gross sales | P.c Change | |
| Subaru WRX | 1,178 | 772 | 52.6% | 4,680 | 5,599 | -16.4% |
Elsewhere in Subaru’s lineup, the Crosstrek had its finest April ever, with 15,667 of the compact crossovers offered, a 4.9 % enhance from the identical month final yr. April was additionally the Pleiades model’s finest month ever for electrical automobile gross sales, with the Trailseeker and Uncharted becoming a member of the Solterra in its lineup of Toyota-based EVs.
Subaru’s WRX continues to be one of the crucial inexpensive—and solely—methods to get right into a four-door sedan with three pedals and a handbook transmission in 2026. It’s additionally Subaru’s solely sedan, after it discontinued the Legacy for 2026. Let’s hope it may develop its gross sales momentum and preserve the flame alive.
Motor1’s Take: Rising WRX gross sales in April are proof that lovers need inexpensive sporty vehicles. With all-wheel drive and a beginning value within the low $30,000s, it represents a terrific worth in in the present day’s market. It’s nice to see patrons reply to Subaru reducing the worth of its iconic sport sedan, and we hope it sparks discussions round different efficiency fashions. New STI, anybody?
