2008 Subaru Impreza WRX. Offical Pics v Motor Trend.

[quote=“MPD47,post:2,topic:26562"”]

Official pics? Really? What idiot thought a Chrysler sebring grille was a good idea.

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Thats the first thing I thought, looks very similar to a sebring from the front. Thats a bad thing.

yeah, that grill is worse than newmans. as for the interior looking cheap, i dont think it does, i think it looks “clean”. thats what i like about my gf’s impreza, there isnt a bunch of clutter… and as long as its not all solid plastic they still have one up on the domestics.

mini tribeca

That grill needs to be mono-chromatic.

The rest of the car looks decent. Isn’t there still going to be a sedan version as well? Perhaps that one will have the fender flares.

Interior doesn’t look cheap. It looks pretty similar to the current Impreza which is sparse.

I also see they have switched to plastic intake runners. If it’s like Mustang plastic runners, then it can’t handle a lot of extra boost.

ehhh… doesnt do anything for me

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

The grill on the sti is probably going to be different.

Anyone else notice the exhaust is on the “wrong” side? But on the one side pic it looks like the tial pipe is coming out the driver’s side.

god damn, well at least I wont be tempted to buy the new impreza when it comes out. That is a good thing financially :smiley:

These look better
http://www.michaelclee.com/pics/2008_wrx_new_nose_mike_lee.jpg
http://www.michaelclee.com/pics/2008_wrx_old_nose_mike_lee.jpg

[quote=“RobHimself,post:28,topic:26562"”]

Anyone else notice the exhaust is on the “wrong” side? But on the one side pic it looks like the tial pipe is coming out the driver’s side.

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Yeah I saw that. It makes sense for it to exit on the turbo side.

ZX5 Focus! It even has a blue oval; thats just wrong.

they all look bad IMO… looks like a POS economy hatch

ewwww, what are they thinking?

[quote=“brendansi,post:5,topic:26562"”]

So they fired the last guy who designed the front end, and hired his brother?

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don’t be stupid. they hired his room mate from design school.

WTF

FAIL

http://files.samhart.net/humor/fail.jpg
http://www.simplifiedsigns.org/fail.jpg
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/fail.gif
http://micom.net/oops/747%20gear%20fail%201.jpg
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Design by committee. :tdown:

eww, saab focus FTL

wow, fucking gross. looks like a cross between the PT,sebring,focus,kia bastard child. yuck.

i was expecting this from the concept…hopefully this IS what the STI version will look like. +1 for :tdown: to losing the fender flares.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_425/car_photo_212758_7.jpg
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_425/car_photo_212757_5.jpg

IF it were to look like these i swear to god im buying one upon graduation.