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Erm.., I don't think you've ever driven an Impreza, have you?
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This is the Subaru brand - old fashioned quality and performance - we don't want interesting/modern/stylish.
If you're bothered by "boring", buy a Focus, but don't complain when it breaks.
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This is the Subaru brand - old fashioned quality and performance - we don't want interesting/modern/stylish.
The problem is that the Impreza has iconic status among a whole generation of fashion conscious performance car enthusiasts for those very reasons.
It's a rally winner, a fashion accessory and bristles with modern technology. Personally speaking, I hate the thing, but credit where it's due, it has made the company a small fortune and played a key role in its ongoing survival.
Would Subaru be able to maintain its global presence without it? I suspect not.
Cheers
DP
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Yep, I've driven a bazzed-up Impreza (RB recently and a McRae way back) and appreciate the arcade style whizzyness but my point wasn't about performance; it was solely looks.
If they build something that goes like stink again, who cares? It wasn't exactly good looking the first time round.
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Edited by Citroënian {P} on 10/12/2007 at 00:47
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On looks alone?
Subaru have never, and are incapable of, designing a car that has anything remotley approaching a car that has "good looks" Unfourtunately, they dont even have the art of making cars so ugly that they become interesting. Nor do they have any idea of interior looks, feel or touch.
You have to admit tho that dynamically they are the bee knees.
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On looks alone? Subaru have never and are incapable of designing a car that has anything remotley approaching a car that has "good looks" Nor do they have any idea of interior looks feel or touch.
What about the Legacy? Looks good and a lovely interior, at least in the Spec B.
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What about the Legacy? Looks good and a lovely interior at least in the Spec B.
Your pullling my leg surely
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Subaru have never and are incapable of designing a car that has anything remotley approaching a car that has "good looks" Unfourtunately they dont even have the art of making cars so ugly that they become interesting. Nor do they have any idea of interior looks feel or touch.
Saw one this morning, rear three quarters vies looks very like the one series BMW. Does that say something about Subaru or BMW styling.
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>>Saw one this morning, rear three quarters vies looks very like the one series BMW. Does that say something about Subaru or BMW styling.
IMO you can add the Hyundai i30 to that list. And that might become a problem for Subaru, the new Impreza looks like a slightly butch Korean hatch whereas at least the previous generations stood out - not at all to my taste but I can understand the appeal. They've softened up the ride and handling which isn't what most Impreza drivers want. The new STi has just been soundly beaten by a Civic Type R (thousands of pounds less cash) in CAR magazine road test. The standard WRX doesn't seem to do too well against its peers either.
So if they've lost the dynamic edge, look ordinary or pretty awful then it's just the engineering quality and prospects of trouble free long term ownership to differentiate the cars - good but surely not enough. I can imagine a facelift being brought forward and plans to get the diesel into the Impreza accelerated.
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