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The Whiteline bars used to be a whopping $100 each or so. Compared to twice that for the Cusco bar (paying for the name much?), Whiteline quickly got a reputation for a great affordable product. Plus, Whiteline has impeccable customer service: like when I was complaining on NASIOC (then i-Club) about my front bar clunking, I got an email from the president of WL telling me they had a redesigned bar for the GD and all he needed was my mailing address and he'd ship me one free of charge from Australia. Find me another company in this market that would do that!

Whiteline also has far more fitments and sizes than any of the other makers. Like Mike said, the Whiteline catalog has like 4 different sized bars for each of the Impreza platforms, including their "race" line of stuff which is ridiculously stiff.

Hotchkis is fairly recent to the Subaru scene, and it sounds like Cobb is leveraging their products... either way I don't know much about 'em other than they've got a great reputation for other makes. I certainly wouldn't say "stay away". In fact I might be willing to give 'em a shot myself due to the features that Dean listed... but only if the new Whiteline mounts don't have the same features. The mounts I've got are like 5 years old, and there's a new design out since then.