Under the headline 'Subaru wields the ugly stick' Evo quote Subaru's designers as saying there is 'method in the apparent madness' and that new look is about 'toning down the current car's boy racer image and aiming for a wider audience'.

How many blind drivers are there in the UK?

Can't say the article next to it on the Evo X was any more encouraging. Apparently the X will have active diff, active yaw control, active stability control, active brakes, active suspension and active steering. One of the things I prefer about the Impreza over the Evo is its me driving the car, not the other way around. Would say that its maybe time to grow up a bit and buy an M3 but they've just announced the basic price: £50,625 I may be sticking with my current car for some time to come.

Lots of press have been saying the Evo could be as much as £35K.

That's quite a lot for 320BHP considering the depreciation the Evo will take compared to say an Audi/BMW.

As the new shape is more grown up it might hold it's value better, but I was hoping it was going to have 350BHP standard.
If 320BHP is £35k I'd hate to think what a 340/360 BHP versions will be.

But it does also say that a STI saloon will debut the us motor show in the Autumn and will hit our markets around Spring 08.300BHP IIRC.

Mac

Thought we weren't getting the Saloon?

I will check later when i get in from work, or maybe its only the STi hatch we are getting.

Mac

I think we are getting the hatch and the US is getting the saloon. Don't what will be available in Japan, but no doubt it will better a spec than ours. JDM always are. That would be the way I would go.

According to EVO mag which is usually reliable, we are getting a STi hatch, debut at the TOKYO motor show in the Autumn and then on sale here in spring.

Poor to say the least, maybe this will slow the depreciation of the later saloons.

Mac

Maybe all earlier Impreza's will hold their value better (even the classic ).

Should we now stop calling the Bug Eye ugly in light of the new car?

Didn't Subaru say something similar about broadening the market by 'courting more mainstream buyers' (as the current EVO puts it) when the bug-eye came out?!! Then after a few months of plummeting sales Peter Stevens came along, waved his magic wand to counteract the effects of Subaru's ugly stick, and lo and behold we got the blob-eye.

Even though I buy a car for its oily bits rather than for its looks, the new WRX is pretty challenging...

Challenging? its a fookin moose, Am I right in thinking the WRX is still going to have the engine and box from the current model? If so I cant see that applealing to a mainstream punter, 200 odd bhp and fuel consumpsion that makes you wince!
I have one for the looks and the performance, can't see it working in any other arena.

I have already sent a letter to Subaru UK after reading that they want to aim the new one at the 40+ market (thats me) I would rather walk than buy that thing and thats basiclly what I put in the letter, unless the STi is radically different I'm afraid I will be Evo bound next

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This looks interesting! Prbably a photoshop buteveryone said the same about the fugly b**stard we now have. Got it off the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club web site

Here, here from another 40+ Scooby driver - quite why they feel I will like the new design I really don't know. Even middle agers like me have some taste left (albeit not on the clothes front)!