Win a 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STI "Hawkeye" — Prime Driven PDG331

What you're looking at

An Aspen White 2006 Impreza WRX STI with 99,000 original miles, described as a California car built and tuned in San Diego. The bones are the good ones: 2.5-liter turbo boxer, six-speed manual, symmetrical all-wheel drive with the driver-controlled center diff.

The build is a coherent big-turbo E85 setup rather than a parts-bin collection. A TD05 20G sits behind GT Spec equal-length headers and an up-pipe, breathing through a Perrin cold-air intake and turbo inlet and a GT Spec 3.5-inch front-mount intercooler. Fueling has been done properly for ethanol — ID1050x top-feed injectors with rails and lines, an AEM 340 LPH pump, an Aeromotive regulator, and a Cobb flex-fuel kit with ethanol sensor so the Accessport V3 can switch maps between E85 and 93. Delicious Tuning wrote the calibration. Supporting work covers TGV deletes, an HKS blow-off valve, a Cobb three-port boost solenoid, an ACT 6-puck clutch, KW Variant 3 coilovers, a GT Spec X-brace and strut tower brace, DEFI gauges and a Kartboy short shifter.

No dyno figure is published, which is worth saying out loud. A 20G on E85 with that fuel system is a meaningful jump over the stock 293 hp, but the number is not printed anywhere, so we are not putting one on it.

Why it matters

2006 is the Hawkeye — the last facelift of the second-generation Impreza, and with 2007 the end of the wide-body STI sedan in the US before the 2008 hatchback. That combination of wide arches, the DCCD six-speed and the EJ has aged into genuine collector interest, and clean unmodified cars now trade well above what they cost new.

This is the other version of that story: the driven, developed one. An ACT 6-puck and 6-puck pedal feel, coilovers, a big single scroll turbo that wants revs — it is a car built to be used, and it has been. Ninety-nine thousand miles on an EJ25 is the point at which you want to know about ringland history, and a heavily boosted example on pump-and-E85 duty deserves a compression test and a look at the service file regardless of how it presents. That is not a knock on the car; it is what any buyer would do, and a winner should do it too.

The fine print worth knowing

The most important line is in the rules, not the marketing. Prime Driven's official rules for PDG331 state: "There will be one (1) Grand Prize available... will receive a 2006 Subaru STI with approximately 99,000 miles. Grand Prize ARV - $4,900. The Winner will also have the option to accept a $4,900 USD cash award in lieu of the aforementioned Prize."

In plain numbers: the operative legal document values this car at $4,900, and sets the cash-instead-of-car option at $4,900. Comparable 2006 STIs trade roughly between $14,500 and $29,000 depending on mileage and condition, and the modification list above exceeds $4,900 in parts alone. Neither the homepage, the entry products nor the FAQ mentions either figure. Separately, and as a matter of public record: New York and Florida require a sweepstakes to register and post a surety bond once total prize value exceeds $5,000. The declared value here is $4,900. We report both facts and draw no conclusion about why the number was set where it was.

On the mechanics. Entries accrue at one entry per $25 spent, on anything in the store — the PDG331 digital-poster tiers run $25 (1 entry), $50 (2), $100 (4) and $200 (8), and apparel counts too. The close is whichever-comes-first: the rules run the period from 12:00:01 a.m. PST on September 8, 2026 to "11:59:59 p.m. PST on September 10, 2026, OR as soon as one thousand five hundred (1,500) different Entrants have entered the Sweepstakes, whatever happens first." That resolves an ambiguity in the homepage banner: the 1,500 cap counts distinct entrants, not entries. Your individual odds still depend on total entries, since one person can hold eight of them.

There is a genuine free route — a hand-printed 3x5 card mailed to the sponsor's New Jersey address, postmarked by September 10 and received by September 15 — reproduced word-for-word in the free-entry field on this page. Entry is open to US residents 18 or older excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The drawing is run by a named outside firm, American Sweepstakes and Promotion Co., Inc., with the winner contacted approximately seven days after the giveaway ends. One transparency note: the past-winners page identifies winners by number — "Winner 327" — with labels such as "HE TOOK THE CASH" rather than names, so past results cannot be checked independently from the site alone. Federal and state income tax on the prize is the winner's responsibility, as with any sweepstakes.