New Impreza WRX [Archive] - Sports Car Forum

redbaron

03-27-2007, 05:03 AM

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1230198

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This is the hatchback version of the new Impreza that will be launched at the New York motorshow next week. There will probably also a sedan version of this new Impreza, but no Plus anymore.

ae86_16v

03-27-2007, 05:40 AM

That is so nasty. . . I had such high hopes with this car, at least from the design stand point. I thought they would've learn their lession with the Tribeca. I mean what is up with the Chrome grill? It is a WRX not a freaking Cadillac.

Ewww. . . :puke: :faint:

dingo

03-27-2007, 06:03 AM

Its gone downhill from the peanut eye WRX (03-05)...that looks horrible.

Definately moving camps myself.

ViperASR

03-27-2007, 09:28 AM

Its gone downhill from the peanut eye WRX (03-05)...that looks horrible.

Definately moving camps myself.

I love the way urs looks with the front splitter and the wheels. The new STI dosnt look horrible, but its also not the sexiest car in the world.

gucom

03-27-2007, 09:40 AM

it looks like a riced-up korean :?

evoWalo

03-27-2007, 11:02 AM

To think I was waiting for this... man I hope this is photochopped.

HeilSvenska

03-27-2007, 11:16 AM

At least the poser boys will avoid this now that it looks like that. Maybe it can be taken really seriously now.

TopGearNL

03-27-2007, 11:16 AM

I hate this idea and car!

I always liked the Impreza and Evo because they were sedans, but now Subaru feels a thread from Audi and Volkswagen (R32) I guess... :bah:

chest3r

03-27-2007, 11:34 AM

I hate this idea and car!

I always liked the Impreza and Evo because they were sedans, but now Subaru feels a thread from Audi and Volkswagen (R32) I guess... :bah:

Maybe but, Impreza will be more hardcore and the Golf and A3 will be more comfortable and with better interior quality.

Anyway, the car looks damn ugly. I think it will look better than that.

rave426

03-27-2007, 11:58 AM

OMG.....they cant be serious......no....its a dream....i know it!!! PLEASE

it looks like a hatchback corolla..........subaru cant be that stupid

TopGearNL

03-27-2007, 12:41 PM

^^ Last proper Scooby! :wink:

Erez

03-27-2007, 01:13 PM

mark my words.. there is no way in hell it will look anything like that, unless they want mitsu toyota and mazda to take their piece of the cake.. :lol:

silentm

03-27-2007, 02:36 PM

wow absolutely no single line on the front end matches the one that runs between the headlights. what subaru has produced here is just hideuous.. :x design wise this is just all wrong...

and yeah that rear end looks like a Focus :roll:

stistyle

03-27-2007, 03:13 PM

i think those are fake. it doesnt have the new subaru grill that i thought they were gonna put on all of there cars and it doesnt have the signature wrx wide fenders. it looks like a mazda 3 with a cadillac grill. definitely not a wrx imo.

redbaron

03-27-2007, 04:12 PM

I just hope it is an early April fool

666fast

03-27-2007, 07:38 PM

Thats not an Impreza, it's a Kia Rio with a Chrysler minivan grill

ae86_16v

03-27-2007, 07:55 PM

i think those are fake. it doesnt have the new subaru grill that i thought they were gonna put on all of there cars . . .

I remember a press release stating that they will move away from that. Considering that it didn't do that well on the Tribeca and the current WRX.

So no more homage to Fuji Heavy Industries and Airplanes.

Pokiou

03-27-2007, 11:37 PM

OH GOD..... WTF happened here !!! look slike some got a honda civic and put a bonnet scoop on it !! omg
*vomits*

novass

03-28-2007, 06:52 PM

Ouch, that thing looks horrible! I can't believe they would screw up such a popular car like that.

79TA

03-29-2007, 01:29 AM

u - g - l -y you don't got no alibi . . .

evoWalo

03-29-2007, 07:10 AM

Edmunds confirms the bad news... I hope the sedan looks better

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/AutoshowArticles/articleId=120172?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..3 .

TopGearNL

03-29-2007, 09:41 AM

Edmunds confirms the bad news... I hope the sedan looks better

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/AutoshowArticles/articleId=120172?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..3 .

OMG!

If the Sedan is going to have the same styling god help us!

oscargarza88

03-29-2007, 02:13 PM

wow i really hope it doesnt look like that..
and if it does well im glad i have the 06 STI..

rave426

03-29-2007, 02:20 PM

WTF. I cant belive it. How can Subie give us something like this after giving us the beast of a car that is the STI Spec-C.

They should fire whoever is on the marketing team. This is the worst idea.......ever. Most of the ppl how buy imprezas are impreza enthusiast. The sales are going to drop like beef fat hanging on a ceiling in 100 deg weather.....

HeilSvenska

03-29-2007, 09:05 PM

turns out they were FAKE! thought so when i saw these...

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/03/29/fool-us-once-most-recent-08-impreza-shots-are-photoshops/#comments
But you know what? Those pics are probably right.

http://www.speedsportlife.com/photopost/data/974/thumbs/wrx2.jpg
http://www.speedsportlife.com/photopost/data/974/thumbs/wrx3.jpg
They might not be official, but we all know how good carspying companies are these days.

evoWalo

03-30-2007, 09:49 PM

Seeming the last link were fakes I'm making it up by posting these shots for being real.

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

HeilSvenska

03-30-2007, 10:03 PM

Seeming the last link were fakes I'm making it up by posting these shots for being real.

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

Lol. That doesn't help. It looks exactly like the "fakes".

evoWalo

03-30-2007, 10:09 PM

The new Impreza looks like a freaking Mazda 3 with a headscoop. OMG I can imagine the number of riced up Mazda3s with a headscoop.

http://i10.tinypic.com/4hlthxy.jpg
http://i14.tinypic.com/3zrhqvq.jpg
http://i9.tinypic.com/470k8au.jpg

Shinigami

03-31-2007, 02:19 PM

Ouch, doesn't look all that good...

FFX

04-01-2007, 08:21 PM

Looks like crap, unfortunately :'(

TopGearNL

04-01-2007, 08:44 PM

Ok - so it's not an April's Fools joke?! :? :roll: :puke:

Unfortenately not :(

Like I said, beginning of the end for Subaru this..

5vz-fe

04-02-2007, 12:54 AM

Unfortunately, the sad truth has been confirmed by Road and Track
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=15&article_id=5095

evoWalo

04-02-2007, 11:19 AM

More news

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/FREE/70402005/1062

TopGearNL

04-02-2007, 11:59 AM

^^ Please stop it :(

5vz-fe

04-02-2007, 12:00 PM

Just think from now on that the WRX hatchback is a Ford Focus with hood scope and you will feel better lol

evoWalo

04-02-2007, 12:36 PM

Just think from now on that the WRX hatchback is a Ford Focus with hood scope and you will feel better lol :lol: now i cant sleep :lol:

Sir_GT

04-02-2007, 06:33 PM

Ah... so the age old "Evo VS Scooby" issue will no longer be an issue this time around then? :)

That shark-inspired Evo X is going to outsell the Scooby 10 to... nil really. :lol:

evoWalo

04-02-2007, 09:51 PM

You wanted to see it so here it is... the 2008 Subby Impreza WRX sedan

http://www.caranddriver.com/autoshows/12768/2008-subaru-impreza-and-impreza-wrx-official-photos-info.html

The Impreza, WRX hatch and US-only WRX sedan

http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/01.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/02.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/03.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/04.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/05.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/06.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/07.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/08.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/09.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/10.jpg
http://cwimg.sv.publicus.com/files/specials/2007_ny/subaru/wrx/11.jpg

5vz-fe

04-02-2007, 10:04 PM

Wow, did they buy corolla's from Toyota, slap on a turbo and rebadge them or something. Oh wow, this must be subaru's ultimate strategy to clean out old stock.

ae86_16v

04-02-2007, 10:06 PM

Front end looks like a Camry w/ a hood scoop. :cry:

Body kit looks tacked on like a Corolla S or something. And no more fender flares. :(

Big disappointment. At least the interior looks better, higher quality.

evoWalo

04-02-2007, 10:23 PM

omfg it is a corolla! the legend is indeeed reborn!

5vz-fe

04-02-2007, 10:43 PM

Yep, gotta be dead before reborn. :mrgreen:

ae86_16v

04-02-2007, 11:11 PM

This WRX is soooo much better :D

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/608/carscoopsubaruimprezabdzj0.th.jpg (http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=carscoopsubaruimprezabdzj0.jpg)
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/04/sexy-russian-outfit-for-2008-subaru.html

79TA

04-03-2007, 02:45 AM

hahahahaha, I love all the people that were praying it was an April fool's joke (really, how did they not check road & track, motortrend etc etc). Yes, the designers at Suburu really do have that bad of taste. :lol:

Stoopie

04-03-2007, 10:43 AM

lol looks more like the new Evo to me :P

MC12

04-03-2007, 01:22 PM

Oh god, and i thought this was an April Fools as well but no luck :x . They really have totally ruined a legend of a car with this piece of crap. I really hope people buy the evo instead of this because it really is atrocious :roll:

fordgt84

04-03-2007, 01:53 PM

god damn subaru have really f***ed up the shape of the impreza...ppl are definitely getting the Evo 10... i still cant believe that management at Subaru went 'Oh my god that's brilliant, thats our next car...put it on sale at once!!'... maybe it'll drive well, but i doubt ppl will care now that it looks like that...SHAME ON YOU SUBARU!!! :fist:

redbaron

04-03-2007, 02:42 PM

looks like shit really but then again i have hated pretty much every evolution of this car's design but eventually warmed up to it. when they changed from dingo's model to the current one i thought it was fucking ghastly but now i love the design. im sure they will make it look good for the Sti.

I agree on the warming up bit, but this one really needs a lot of heath... Hopefully the Sti will give some of this heath.

I just keep on thinking about the news of about two years ago when the Impreza was sent back to the drawing board. With the kind of taste of this new Impreza, the rejected one must have looked stunning.

Sir_GT

04-03-2007, 06:03 PM

^^^ I agree 100%

Whoever said "OMFG! THIS IS 45384758454356 TIMES BETTER LOOKING THAN THE EVO X!" needs to be fucked by a horse in the eye sockets.

5vz-fe

04-04-2007, 01:13 AM

I don't understand why they keep making the STi group work so hard to come up with a decent WRX Sti when they could simply make the base car better looking.

IMHO, Subaru designers are one of the worst in the Japanese car industry.

HeilSvenska

04-04-2007, 03:14 AM

cant say i like it very much... but im already warming up to it. im sure the sti will manage to look good.
http://208.249.122.227/news/2070403.001/2070403.001.1L.jpg
Looks like a 90's Kia.