The USDM STi lights will swap into the '04-'05 2.0 WRX.

There aren't many <$25k cars that have HIDs as an option so I don't think it's anything unusual for Subaru to do.

I still think that the setup I had on my '02 WRX with the Hella 500s+Kartboy brackets in place of the OEM fog lights wired to the high-beams trigger was a much better setup than the OEM HIDs on my '04 STi. I could see straight over to the next state with those suckers fired up on a backroad. I was disapointed that the '04+ went with the smaller fogs making the mounting of the 500s impossible.