Subaru Australia has unveiled a limited-edition WRX sedan commemorating a milestone for the Japanese marque’s lauded sports sedan in the region. And, in a possibly tongue-in-cheek reference to the WRX’s arch-rival from Mitsubishi, Subaru has dubbed this special edition the Evo. Shots fired! Subaru WRX Evo Retains Boxer Engine, Gets Bespoke Enhancements Subaru AustraliaLaunched to celebrate the 60,000th WRX delivered in Australia, just 75 examples of the new Subaru WRX AWD Club Spec Evo will be available exclusively in the country, with prices starting from $63,190 Australian dollars (around $89,100 USD). Though primarily a cosmetic upgrade, the special edition is built atop the Subaru WRX AWD tS Spec B, the most dynamic example of the sedan, sans an ‘STi’ badge, on Subaru Australia’s range.Check out The Drop at our companion site HotCars for a chance to win the Vyper Elite Trio Package, a premium set of garage chairs!The Club Spec Evo boasts an exclusive Sunrise Yellow exterior paint finish, paired with contrast yellow stitching across the instrument panel, the center console, the door panels, and across the new Recaro sports seats in the cabin. The Evo package rides atop bespoke 19-inch matte black alloy wheels, and a Club Spec Evo decal has been stenciled across the rear doors.Subaru AustraliaSadly, no mechanical upgrades have been implemented as part of the limited Club Spec Evo package. The sedan does, however, retain its 2.4-liter Boxer flat-four – good for 275-horsepower and 258-pound feet of torque – and, tantalizingly, will be available exclusively with a six-speed manual transmission. How much the cosmetic upgrades will affect the WRX AWD tS Spec B’s estimated 5.6-second zero to 60 mph sprint time is unclear.Interestingly, while the $63,190 AUD / $89,100 USD price tag is $14,300 AUD more than the region’s entry-level WRX, the Club Spec Evo is still not the most expensive example on Subaru Australia’s line-up. MSRPs for the region’s all-wheel drive WRX ts Sportwagon, with automatic transmission, just takes the prize starting at $800 AUD higher. The Club Spec Evo, bizarrely, is also one of two WRX special editions launched this week. That Name Sounds Very Familiar… Subaru AustraliaOfficially, the Subaru WRX AWD Club Spec Evo package is said to draw its name from the myriad “enthusiast-focused WRX special editions” that have been launched since the original World Rally eXperimental debuted in 1992. Across the third generation alone, for example, more than 15 different special edition models, with various performance upgrades, were launched between 2007 and 2011.Inevitably though, the Evo name has drawn comparisons with Mitsubishi’s Lancer Evolution, the arch-nemesis to the Subaru Impreza/WRX and one half of arguably the greatest rivalry in World Rally Championship history. Even the use of Sunrise Yellow as an exclusive paint could be considered a jab at its former rival.Subaru Australia, admittedly, launched the special edition BRZ tS Kiiro with the exact same bespoke paint earlier this year, but the Sunrise Yellow name is not too dissimilar to the Lightning Yellow paint available for Mitsubishi’s Evolution VII, and thereafter, during the mid-2000s.MitsubishiAll of the above is pure speculation, of course. The Evo name, after all, has been used by Lamborghini, Ford, Ferrari, Volkswagen, and even on HWA’s Mercedes 190E tribute, among many others, to denote an upgraded example of an existing performance machine. It’s notable, however, that Subaru has done so for the first time in the WRX’s three-decade history only after the Lancer Evolution was discontinued after 2015. A cheeky jab? Or a touching tribute to the WRX’s fallen rival?Source: Subaru Australia