The new 2008 Impreza needs a name doesnt it? We've had Hawkeye, Blobeye etc...

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Jun 22, 2007 | 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dan W

does any body think that its possilbe that the suits at Subaru may be in a panic because of the widepread negative feedback they are receiving? I don't know.

If they had any sense they would go back to the drawing board. Literally.

or get some real feedback from owners on here before they release a new model. Other manufacturers get feedback from owners so why don't subaru? or maybe only in Japan.

Jun 22, 2007 | 05:07 PM

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The car and its design will have no doubt gone through several 'focus groups' before being released so it must have had a postive impact somewhere.

Jun 22, 2007 | 05:19 PM

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call it the " Blindeye " when it comes out we wont want it so will turn a Blindeye and get a older scooby

Jun 22, 2007 | 05:23 PM

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how about fekin ugly eye..... and they'll have a shock when sales plummet because there's not even a turbo model.... I hope they go bust for producing **** like that <rant off?

Jun 22, 2007 | 05:38 PM

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EVO have done a test on the new WRX and it doesn't look that bad, I reckon the STi will look quite nice. Time will tell.......

Jun 22, 2007 | 07:04 PM

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hands up how may of u were humming and arring about whether a future buy might be an evo .... Well may consider a late spec c but after that I'm off to the dark side ...

Jun 22, 2007 | 07:55 PM

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How about the Subaru 'we give up Mitsubishi you've won'
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Jun 22, 2007 | 08:21 PM

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IMO it should be call "the poke in the eye"

Jun 22, 2007 | 08:46 PM

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Think it should be called Japs eye.

Jun 22, 2007 | 09:47 PM

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Isn't is already called the Mazda 3

Jun 22, 2007 | 09:52 PM

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Just seen EVO mag., Subaru say the new "target market" will more than compensate for the loss of the "old market". Trying to out Golf the Golf.

My classic was smallish, light and agile, my bug-eye is better built, but doesn't feel as nippy....

NO newScoob for me, rather save an extra year for an EVO X, sadly....

Jun 22, 2007 | 09:59 PM

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Just seen EVO mag., Subaru say the new "target market" will more than compensate for the loss of the "old market". Trying to out Golf the Golf.

They haven't a hope in Hell. Golf enthusiasts are more entrenched in their marque than Windoze users. It doesn't matter one iota how much better it is to drive than the Golf, it looks like a Mazda 3 and they will never entertain it. The old market have apoken their intentions but their dreams of the new market will remain dreams IMHO. RIP Impreza

Jun 22, 2007 | 10:05 PM

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Hi Corradoboy, so how's the diesel powered Mac world treating you ?
Mazda 3 might be a nice car (LOL), no reason to copy it tho'.

We'll all have to tool around in Forrester STI's instead, at least the big black dog will be happy in the back ? I want a black one, or white.... Hmmm

P.S. How about the "Goodb-eye", Subaru....

Jun 22, 2007 | 10:11 PM

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My Mac is so old it's steam powered

Would love a Forester STi though, but trying to kill the mortgage over the next 4 years so we can emigrate to Cornwall

Jun 22, 2007 | 10:15 PM

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How about EyebroughtanEvo

Jun 22, 2007 | 10:17 PM

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Captain Birdseye.

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Jun 22, 2007 | 10:43 PM

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I dont know what was so wrong with the blob eye and/or hawk eye that they Subaru changed the models so soon.

Jun 22, 2007 | 10:47 PM

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From: Just beyond the limits of adhesion

Classics ran from 93 to 00, 7 years. Bug, Blob and Hawks from 01 to 08, 7 years. Normal lifespan.

Jun 22, 2007 | 10:52 PM

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Widespread - as in a few ppl who have never seen one tucked away in a corner of the internet are whinging about it ?

Get real. The uk market is a drop in the ocean for sales (cars, movies, games - you name it we're nothing... erm maybe Tea and pints of bitter).

We get 'watered down' versions of most cars at high prices and usually the last to get a model launch to. Yeah I bet subaru are really papping it.

True the UK may be a drop in the ocean but on the law of averages if the new Impreza is getting widespread negative feedback on here it will be getting widespread negative feeback in many other countries too. On that basis the suits should be in a panic.