The 2020 model year closed the STI out in America, which is what makes a clean stock example like this one worth keeping right. It came through for Icon Rocklear, our permanent paint protection coating, and it's left with its rally blue reading deeper than Subaru ever sprayed it, with crisp hex reflections rolling over the hood scoop.

Final-generation cars only get rarer from here, and locking the paint in now is how this one doesn't turn into somebody's project later. Here's how the coating does that.