A extra rugged model of what we all know because the Subaru WRX Sportswagon is coming, in response to a report out of Japan.

A lot because the Liberty wagon spawned the Outback and the Impreza the XV/Crosstrek, Greatest Automotive Net studies the Levorg – because the WRX Sportswagon is understood there – will get a higher-riding model.

It’s reportedly due within the northern autumn of 2023, so between September and November.

Floor clearance will reportedly be elevated from 140mm to 200mm, the identical because the Crosstrek.

It’s going to additionally reportedly obtain black plastic cladding, one thing that has beforehand been unique – relatively unusually – to sedan variations of the WRX, which even have 5mm much less floor clearance than the wagons.

Greatest Automotive Net studies the brand new mannequin is anticipated to be outfitted with a 1.8-litre turbo flat-four, which is the usual engine within the Japanese-market Levorg. This produces 130kW and 300Nm.

It’s unclear whether or not Subaru may also supply this ruggedised Levorg with the up-level 202kW/375Nm turbocharged 2.4-litre flat-four, the one engine supplied on this automobile regionally, to create a extra rally-ready wagon.

This engine is shared with the WRX sedan, although Subaru solely presents the choice of a handbook transmission with the three-box physique type and leaves the wagon solely with a repeatedly variable transmission.

The WRX sedan and Sportswagon arrived regionally in 2022, with the latter changing the earlier Levorg – although it retains that title in Japan.

The earlier Levorg was supplied right here with a alternative of two turbocharged four-cylinder powertrains: a 1.6-litre with 125kW and 250Nm and a 2.0-litre with 197kW and 350Nm.

Subaru Australia opted to not deliver the second-generation wagon right here with the brand new 1.8-litre turbo, as an alternative repositioning it as a extra devoted efficiency automobile and bringing it below the WRX umbrella as a religious successor to WRX wagons of yore.

There’s loads of precedent for a higher-riding WRX Sportswagon. Subaru has been making use of cladding to its wagons and giving them larger trip heights because the Nineties, to the purpose the place the Liberty-derived Outback supplanted its wagon donor totally.

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