Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
 

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Before your heart goes all aflutter at the thought of a factory [URL="http://www.autoblog.com/model/forester"]Subaru Forester[/URL] XTI, cool your jets a bit. It's true that [URL="http://www.autoblog.com/make/subaru"]Subaru[/URL] Australia has just pulled the sheets off of a more powerful Forester complete with nearly 260 horsepower and 256 pound-feet of torque, and yes, the high-rider packs a new five-speed automatic to replace the archaic four-speed slusher found on most Forester models. Drivers can even control shifts via a pair of paddles should the mood strike them. But this isn't some slammed hardcore grocery getter. Instead, the Forester S-Edition, as it's called, wears a slightly revised suspension cooked up from the minds at STI along with a few subtle aero tweaks outside.

Jump indoors and those from down under will enjoy a cabin trimmed in Alcantara bits, navigation and a rear view camera, all for a just a bit more than what you'd typically pay for a Forester XT in those parts.

Will we be getting anything similar? It certainly wouldn't hurt our feelings, but we'd be surprised if Subaru suddenly decided to lay another model on top of its range-capping XT here in the land of the free. We've got our digits crossed for that five-speed transmission, though. [URL="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/01/subaru-adds-wrx-powered-forester-s-model-for-australians/#continued"]Hit the jump[/URL] for the press release.


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