- 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.
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 $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.
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. The interior also features yellow highlights.
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.