Disgusting colour! :-( I'll have the previous blue version instead.
Subaru BRZ Kiiro manual for New Zealand: bright newcomer for summer ------------------------------------------------------------------- Image 1:
Limited run of 10 yellow BRZ Kiiro models for New Zealand.
Standard in 'tS' STI-tweaked specification, manual-only.
Numbered key boxes, engraved keyrings and specific exterior badge.
It's a Subaru BRZ tS, but it's yellow. Good enough for us.
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Not a full STI model, but you get some nice STI bits.
Subaru of New Zealand is back doing the thing that it's done so well in the past: importing small runs of niche models and creating a bit of buzz with a couple of specific flourishes.
The NZ$62,990 BRZ tS Kiiro is arriving in a limited run of 10 this month. It's manual-only, and an STI-tuned (that's what the "tS" bit means) version of the coupe with 18-inch STI wheels, a strut brace, STI gearlever/start button, drilled disc rotors and mesh grille.
Pretty much standard production-model stuff and pretty much the same specification as the other 10 examples imported earlier this year, expect they were WR Blue. This one's yellow: the "Kiira" name is derived from the Japanese kanji script for the colour.
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Mesh grille and Brembo brakes are part of the tS package.
And those limited-run flourishes? It wears a special Kiiro exterior badge and each car comes with a numbered presentation key box (1-10) and an engraved key ring, similar to the BRZ tS Tsubasa special edition and the WRX special editions AKA, Tatsu and Todoroki.
Putting that NZ-specific stuff aside, the colour combo (which includes yellow trim highlights in the cabin) is indeed a special run form the factory. The same colourway is being rolled out under various names elsewhere in the world; in the US it's called Sport Yellow Edition, for example.