Please Subaru, make this into a 2 door as well.

Is this the Impreza that will be on the Legacy platform?

looks good, and yes, two door would OWN

Definately like the new front end and rear end design language… from what I can see.

I’ll reserve final judgment for when I see it in person, but this looks good so far. I too hope they make a 2 door version.

An A3 smoker in performance no doubt. Too bad Subaru as a company suck for customer SERVICE – previous WRX lemon owner.

Current WRX owner (02), I haven’t had any issues with mine. And they are quite easy to work on as well. I’m excited to see a hatch back offering. I wonder if they’ll plan to run this model in WRC?

Looks like a knockoff on the Mazda3 or 5 or whatever to me… if it weren’t for the hood scoop, who could tell the difference?

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It looks promising. I’m one of the few who thought the airplane influenced design didn’t look too bad on the Impreza (the Tribeca’s nose is a whole ‘nother story – and a bad story at that) but I’ll wait until the design’s released. That grille somehow reminds me of a less expensive Mercedes knockoff, but maybe I’m just reading it wrong. Still it does have promise. I’d rather see a sedan design with fold-down rear seating.

1. subaru desparately needs a two door version, hatch or coupe… whatever
2. This looks good… for a 4 door
3. does look similar to the mazdaspeed 3… BUT this will have AWD.

If the new Impreza WRX has the 6-speed transmission from STi’s… I might be interested. If they’re using the same old 5-speed design… not interested.

Saab 9-2x anyone?

Mazda 3 MPS burner. Subbie was go at the hot-hatch market~!

*wants a go (share) at the hot-hatch market!~!

is it look like mazda3? is it actually mazda3? no flameless windows?

I’m into it..a two door model would be even better.

My guess is that it is actually a Mazda3 mps, its too far a departure from subaru’s previous designs, there are no pumped wheel arches, and the grill looks far more mazda than subaru. I think the camo is made to look like a subaru

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I’m guessing subaru is tired of trying endlesly to beat the mitsubishi evo after a 0% success rate in doing that, so they decide to take on the vw gti (the king of hatchbacks). By the way, if you know whats good for you, don’t mess with the evo!

would love to see it as a two door hatch a la volvo c30; also, the superior subaru awd will make this car much more fun to drive than than the fwd vw gti or mazda3; the sti at 330 hp will make it hard to beat; can’t wait…….