March 27, 2007

Finally. New 2008 Impreza :(

Nice Mazda 3MPS with BMW 1 side lines and Daewoo Lanos back…

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What have they done………….. :’(

A May issue of Motor Trend issued in March???? Who’s kidding who here?? DJ

very bad car … Mouarrrff !!!

turboWRX et Iceman83

This is one ugly car :S What were they thinking??

I love it. I lug around a lot of stuff in my car and the hatchback has proven godly for me. Currently I drive a Hyundai Tiburon and I can fit a ridiculous amount in that tiny car, but it lacks the AWD stability and snow-munching power that my Subie SVX had.
So, thank you Subaru for solving all my problems. I’ll be getting the new STi.

as a practicing PR, there is no way ANY company would release photos of the actual model being kept so secret up until now so close to the release date.

The new Impreza may look similar to this, but my gues is not exactly.

-Carter

I will give them this, its a damn good Photoshop job, I bet its the new CS3 too! damn that program is fast.

Dont Know y but i like it maybe cuz i like subaru no mater what they do take a good look at it and try picture the sedan will look awesome!! (not sure if that is real one tho still he could be messin wif us ay) hope it is tho

Subaru - ???
The last vehicle we’re really looking forward to is the Subaru “something-or-other”. Subaru’s PR people are saying that the New York Auto Show will be huge for the company, and the public Subaru website is hinting that a “legend will be reborn”. Whatever vehicle this is, it must be important as Subaru is running a publicly-viewable countdown clock on its site.

So what can it be? We’re guessing that the vehicle in question will be the new Impreza WRX. We asked our sources at Subaru for a few hints as to what the car will be, and they just responded by telling us to keep a close eye on the New York Auto Show. Not much help, huh? These same sources also said that most of the rumors currently surrounding the next-gen Impreza are about as wrong as wrong can be. Does this mean that the next Impreza won’t be a five-door hatch? Does this mean that the car will lose the “Impreza” name entirely? We guess we’ll have to wait until the New York Auto Show to find out…

Or we could be totally wrong about this thing entirely. Perhaps the “reborn legend” will be the Subaru Brat…

-NY Auto Show website…

Soooooooooo f*#%

I LOVE IT! I sope this is really it.

This HAS to be a fake. I think it is close, but still a fake. Look closely at the trim around the headlights and tail lights, they don’t match. Not even Subaru would design something that simply doesn’t match itself.

TO: STIman
It is the same car…compare with http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphotos.cfm/spyphotoID/6060915.002/pageview/photo/photo/Mini3/page/1/country/jcf/subaru/spy-photos-all-new-subaru-impreza

I have no idea what to say. We have to wait for next 2 years for facelift.

yea, its freaking horrible!

even someone not design inclined knows this is ONE F*CKIN UGLY car.
lets just hope its a hoax…

oh damn… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

CHANGE THIS THING. WE WANT A REAL IMPREZA , NOT A CUT AND COPY OF OTHER BRANDS!

Devastated and disappointed…

I don’t doubt this is the issue of Motor Trend, but this is just another bollocks rip off.

Until I see a ‘photo’ of the real car sitting on a rotunda or in a show room or on the road I don’t believe a thing.

This aint the final car if you ask me….just wait until the 5th…God! It’s only a week away now…

I don’t really think it’s that this is the final car. The intercooler looks too small to support the turbo. And they say the interior is gonna be like the A3. Although the only thing i like about the car is the rear.

Did anyone notice that if you go to insideline.com, and look at their article on the NY Auto Show, they have a list of cars that will be unveiled at the show. Subaru is going to unveil TWO cars, one on the 4th and one on the 5th. Is it possible this is a base wrx being shown on the 4th, and that the new sti will be similar, but much different? You could make this car look mean with the right touches here and there.

http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline/category/cat.NewYorkAutoShow

All the goods on the WRX. And yes, this IS the car, no question. They will offer a sedan still, but not in the STI.

EVO fans must be shitting themselves laughing at this thank you very much Subaru for ruining a very cool car……again

A few comments:
1. Have a look closely at all the phtots. They’re very obviously photoshopped. Real marketing shots are actually taken on location.

2. It may well actually be in MT. I haven’t seen it so can’t comment. Even if it is, don’t believe everything you read in a magazine. The earlier “real” shots on autoaction are different to these.

3. Two models revealed at New York - the Impreza and smaller Hybrid.

4. Any PR worth their salt would never let out images prior to a launch, embargo’ed or not.

5. Persanally, I’m waiting for next week to believe or not any images.

-Carter

It maybe an ugly car, but things really did improved on the car since i looked at the specs. in edmund.
1. fuel economy incresed 10%
2. ligther from the previous car by 200-300 lb.
3. sedan get dual exaust
4. get 2 in. more leg room
5.0-60 acceleration time increased (previous 5.9 and new 5.5)
6. possibe more hp on sti
bad things
1. only hatch in sti (for lighter weight)
2. freaking ugly car!! (any way, the sti will get a better grille than the based

copy-paste

. I have one good friend that works for official Subaru dealer in one eastern europe country - he was at the recent Tokyo Motorshow. He has asked Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) employees on what will be the Subaru answer to fantastic Mitsubishi Evo 10 concept.. They said that: “2008 Impreza will be much more beautiful, more aggressiv and(!!!) more technologically than Evo X Concept “.

WHAT THA F went frong ?????

Man, I thought the 2006 redesign with the airplane grille was bad enough, a hatchback? What has gone wrong with Subaru? I guess that’s why nothing is perfect.

Just be patient people!!!! The official release is on Wednesday! I work at Subaru and We don’t even know what it looks lik yet! Even the Owners of subaru dealers Don’t know what it looks like yet! Just a few days to go

This is a photoshop guys! So damn glad and relieved it’s a fake! Subaru is going to have a better design than this P.O.S!!! Check out autoblog for the full coverage of it being a photoshop.

The rear reminds me of a lexus RX330…front grill looks like a damn Chrysler. Was looking for an STi for a new car guess it won’t be the oh-eight if this is it =’(.

OK…these pictures I can believe…

http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=15&article_id=5096

I just hope they drop the grill and add some much more aggressive styling to the STi!!!

One thing confuses me??

The hood scopp is half way near the front and yet in the pic of the intercooler it’s right at the back???

Thanx patu That is the real 2008 impreza wrx! it is the one in this forum aswell and it look awesome

I now know how all the people back then felt when the bugeye sedan replaced the two doors coupe RS…ugh. Damn you Subaru, damn you! Now I have to wait till 2010 for the next facelift and see if I’m still going to buy an STi. Is it just me or is the intercooler seems a tad bit smaller than the current ones?

EVERYONE!!! YOU’LL BE PLEASED TO KNOW THAT THESE ARE NOT REAL! THE ENGINE BAY IS FROM A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CAR! IT’S A HOAKS.

BRING ON THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t know, but seems to be true pic’s. Check out http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline/category/cat.Subaru

Ok! So I see Chrysler Sebring got new look….but why did WRX? Didn’t they learn anything from that SAAB Aero experience? Well I sure hope 06 and 07 are still around, at least they look much more ORIGINAL. I don’t know, but I think I better sell my SUBARU market shears while I still got chance! This new car is complete BS.

Thank you Subaru for increasing the value of my 03 estate/Wagon.. ! You have taken Kia clean off the podium, with your incredibly awful..new aesthetics
Do your designers, not sketch any more..? Or just go straight to Photoshop, cut/Paste.. ! At least have some sort of consistency, plagiarise just one brand not BMW/Honda/Chrysler/Mazda and Chevrolet..all at once…

How about having a point of view with your design aesthetics, instead of trying to be the next bland big car company.. !
Subaru has a history of innovation …Where did it all go..? Always about the $$$ .Probably have some fat cat US marketing manager from GM…Running that shit..

Disappointing.. You’ve now insured I will be buying the new M3 . Bollocks to ya..!

It doesn’t look like it’s phototshop
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/AutoshowArticles/articleId=120172

With a car like this, is there still hope with the new STI ?

Being a lover of hatchbacks, I purchased a VW R32 when it entered the US despite my love afair with the Impreza. One reason was that I have a lot of stuff to haul around everyday but I still wanted a car that was quick and comfortable.

The thought of the STi having a new edgy style, grabbed my attention and made me hope for something that would make me give up the hatchback lifestyle. But, I must say that if Subaru plans to use this as the basis of the new STi, they have a lot of work to do.

It seems more and more that the design cancer that is plaguing the American auto industry has bled into Japan as well. I’m sure they are trying, but something has to come of this, either a kick in the teeth when Mitsubishi wipes the sales floor with Subaru next year, or some drastic management changes like what happened at Nissan a few years ago.

Subaru must realize that the world is tired of bland designs like what we’ve seen from the “Big Three” and they better come up with something soon because AWD isn’t as a unique feature as it once was, especially to hold a car company above water and out of bankruptcy.

As everyone said……THIS IS A CRAP!!!
They fired Zapatinas for Tribeca and last impreza propeler desing…so, now they will fire the whole company!…
Now i can sleep well…i know that i will not buy the new impreza this year..i will probably get a Golf or a Seat Leon Cupra (2000cc 240hp 6 speeds…about 10000 dollars less than the former WRX.. sorry guys..only for Europe)
but as a Subaru fan from the day i was born…i will say….
SOMEONE HAS TO SPEAK TO SUBARU!!!…Please..all of you in the North American and UK fanclubs…make a letter of protest to Subaru.

This is not a Subaru….
Windowframes…after market lexus-like taillights for Chevrolet Lacetti… air holes on the dashboard (left-right) from the 90’s impreza…a/c buttons/controls from last impreza…front lights and a pumber from a 90’s corolla or civic…and a sideview of a wannabe mazda 3 car… forgot to mention the 80’s golf antenna!

Probably their next “improvement” would be a “in series” engine insted of boxer…. and the revolutianorary….front wheel drive…

SO, ..IT SUCKS!…

This is the real look

http://images.motortrend.com/future/future_vehicles/112_0703_02z+2008_subaru_impreza_wrx_sti+front.jpg

i agree thats the best one i have seen cuty ,wheres the market research what sort off fucking morons do they have are they trying design a car for nana s and mums im buying the evo

check the link to see what are the Subaru’s goals and company missions… so who ever designed this new Impreza should have read it…Did they?!!!
Quote from the link:

“
With the philosophy of “customers come first” at its core, the plan addresses five major challenges.
1. To provide a distinctive Subaru experience for drivers and passengers
2. To increase sales globally
3. To strengthen competitiveness in quality and cost
4. To also grow through the business alliance with Toyota
5. And to grow the level of employees competence and so enhance the organization
“
I guess all of this talk about customers come first is just nonsense… NO COMMENT.

Cleary Subaru has now lost all sense of design direction.

The hallmark of great design is a consistent theme across the entire range. The make of the vehicle should be clear – even if all badging is removed. If any German manufacturer launches a new model, or if you see spy pics, it is immediately clear who the manufacturer is.

In the Subaru stable it is impossible to link the Forrester, Legacy and Impreza (not to mention the ever-changing Tribeca). This shows you that there is no design direction in the group.

The only thing Subaru had going for it was that it was a car for the individual. Now that has also been destroyed with the new Impreza for the mass market.

It’s the end of the “Scooby world” as we know it boys. We will just have to accept it.

Andrew
South Africa

It’s the real thing

I love this because its beautiful and because of the Engine!!!

Gone to NYC auto show….and that new WRX looks even uglier than in pictures.

Although the `08 looks are far from what the majority wished for, I hope this subie keeps the original fact of why we love this car… and thats blowin away high priced sports cars. The boxer lives on………..
I wonder what the WRC boys think….

What about STI version?? Does anyone have some informations/pictures?

why dont they just stick to makin it similar to the 2003 sti shape improving some of the looks but mostly concentrating on the engine and suspension.

thanks subaru for f**king up a perfectly beautiful car it now looks like a daewoo lanos, a BMW 1 series and a mazda

WELL DONE SUBARU BODS!!!!!!

but i would still have an STI to an Evo lol no matter how ugly the new car is but what will the STI look like? the pics are of a standard impreza not the STI

I am an owner of a WRX 2003 model and I was anticipating the 2008 model with a lot of hopes for something really cool and fresh. But alas…
I had some suspicions in the past, regarding the older bug-eyed Impreza, but now I am sure that there must be a traitor (or traitors) amongst Subaru designers OR all the design team must have COMPLETELY run out of fresh and inspired ideas. I simply can’t have some other explanation since I firstly saw the photos of the new WRX.

It can’t be SO ugly, SO boring, SO uninspired, SO dull, SO dissapointing !!!!

I was thinking of buying the new model but now I am 100% sure that I won’t. Maybe the new Mitsubishi Evo X, or even the current fantastic Mazda 6 MPS will be my next choice.

WHY Subaru ?

Nick

Wait, gota look at this STI photoshop using the new 2008 impreza impreza. May not be real but most likely design.
http://home.arcor.de/goep8/indexStudien08.htm
(first three photo)