{"id":1901090,"date":"2026-04-24T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1901090"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:48:20","slug":"subaru-finally-built-a-turbocharged-awd-brz-but-its-only-for-rally-racing-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1901090","title":{"rendered":"Subaru Finally Built A Turbocharged AWD BRZ, But It’s Only For Rally Racing In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since the first-generation BRZ came out<\/a>\u00a0way back in 2013, people have ranted on every possible platform that the car needs more power<\/a> \u2014 turbocharged power<\/a>, ideally, maybe from the WRX’s engine. Some real perverts among you have even clamored for all-wheel drive<\/a>, hoping against hope for a revival of the two-door WRX days<\/a> of olde. Well, you got your wish:\u00a0Subaru built a turbocharged, lifted, all-wheel-drive BRZ. But just one, and it’s for rally racing in Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new car is called the Subaru Boxer Rally Spec.Z, a name which notably doesn’t include “BRZ” anywhere \u2014 after all, the R in that name stands for “rear-wheel drive.”\u00a0Subaru is very clearly positioning this as a race-only vehicle, one the company plans to take to the All Japan Rally Championship starting with its upcoming third round. You may never see a car like this on dealer floors, but at least you can see it rip through Japanese woods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Spec.Z will take the place of Subaru’s prior entry into the All Japan Rally Championship, a race-prepped WRX. The company said in a press release<\/a> that the chassis switch comes down to weight \u2014 the team struggled to get the WRX down to the 2,866 pound minimum for the class, but the BRZ could easily be wrestled down to size. As a rally car, the Spec.Z also gets a lift kit, a wide body, and that turbocharged 2.4-liter boxer engine. Subaru claims it makes 276 horsepower and 369 pound-feet, but tacks an “or more”\u00a0on to both those numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We’ll almost certainly never see a turbocharged, all-wheel-drive BRZ on dealer floors, but at least Subaru’s made the car you’re all clamoring for once \u2014 if only to tease you with it. Having owned an FR-S myself, I really like the car being light, simple, naturally aspirated, and rear-wheel-drive. It feels true to the car’s spirit, rather than chasing numbers on a spec sheet. Of course, I’m no professional rally driver, so what the hell do I\u00a0know?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since the first-generation BRZ came out\u00a0way back in 2013, people have ranted on every possible platform that the car needs more power \u2014 turbocharged power, ideally, maybe from the WRX’s engine. Some real perverts among you have even clamored for all-wheel drive, hoping against hope for a revival of the two-door WRX days of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,247],"class_list":["post-1901090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-jalopnik-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1901090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1901090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1901090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1901090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}