Hopefully all you die hard Shimano fans can shed some light for me. I am wanting to pick up a Stella, but the new ones are about 4 years old. I would rather wait until a new one comes out, however I have not not been staying up on release dates. Does anyone think we will see a new one any time soon, end of 2025, early 2026? I’m not in a hurry. Last time I did this, I purchased a Certate and they released a new like months after I received it! 

No new Stella for 2025...if they do refresh it for 2026, shimano usually will release information on upcoming new models early January.. 

Unless they are doing something magical with the Stella,  I would look at the Twin Power.  I've got two now and they are a pleasure to fish at about half the cost of the Stella.  

I figured as much. Thanks!

 

52 minutes ago, FishTank said:

Unless they are doing something magical with the Stella,  I would look at the Twin Power.  I've got two now and they are a pleasure to fish at about half the cost of the Stella.  

I agree with this, a lot of the features of the current Stella have been implemented on the Twin Power. I have one of these on order from the local bait shop. Should be coming in fairly soon. Excited to check it out. Something still tells me I should try a Stella. Just want to want to see if they put any new features on it. 
 

I know the twin power and Vanquish are very different reels but if the new twin power is anything like the vanquish I have I will be very pleased. 

Here's what the math tells me.  

They improved Stella so much for '18, the only thing they changed in '22 was slightly increasing the spool pitch - slightly lengthen the spindle.  This tells me they decided '18 Stella was as near perfect as they can get it, and overdesigned, so they pushed the design a little harder with '22 increased spool pitch.  

Makes me even happier all my (worm-drive) Shimanos are from the '18 Stella series.