Dan Perkins Subaru

                                                

What does Motor Trend have to say?
 
The STI has progressed enough to revisit the past: The new model year resurrects the four-door-sedan body style, so 2011 will be the first year that an STI sedan and hatch are offered simultaneously, following the car's switch to hatch only when this generation was launched for 2008. The sedan's touted advantage is in its aerodynamic efficiency, which Subaru says allows a top speed of 158 mph, 3 ticks more than the five-door's. But cargo capacity takes a 7.7-cubic-foot hit from the hatch's 19 cubic feet behind the rear seats. (The back seats in both models fold.) The sedan is 6.5 inches longer and weighs marginally more?a difference of 11 pounds, according to Subaru. These are minor differentiators, so choose which one you like looking at most. (A few in our office like the looks of the sedan.