it looks like a Ford Focus.......but worse.
The next Ford Focus RS (shamefully not coming to the US) will blast the doors off this WRX...and look much better doing it too!!!!
I don't see the appeal of hot hatches at all anyway. They just look so.....girly.
I think I must wonder at the appeal of hot hatches in the same way Europeans must wonder at why we Americans drive so many pick-up trucks. Sure, both have their obvious utility.....but.....they just don't exactly fit within the others culture now do they???
Sure you can see the odd Briton with a Ford F350 super duty and you see the odd American with a VW Golf R32......but the reality is that these people are statistical outliers within thier respective cultures.