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has the US version...
No spoiler
No Side markers
So long as it moves, they could paint it Pea-green with Chocolate Brown interior and I'd be interested!
-mike
Bob
Ken
I really like the dual tip exhaust though!
-mike
Either way, the aftermarket will cash in big-time. Can you imagine how many bi-planes they'd sell?
-juice
Put that motor and those wheels (in 17" versions) into a Legacy GT, slap a bigger sway bar on the back end to neutralize the handling, add a few sporting touches to the interior, pop a couple of those B4 pieces on the outside (but keep it subtle), and call the resultant blitzmobile the Legacy GT-A (Great Traction with Attitude) or GT-R (Great Traction with a Rally car's heart). Then advertise it against the tiny little A4 and Bimmer 3-series as "AWD with Attitude for, count 'em, 1-2-3-FOUR full-sized adult passengers", or "AWD for adults who occasionally find themselves looking out the side window" (picture of GT-R sideways on gravel road, plumes of dust billowing from all 4 wheel wells), plunk a price tag right near $30K on it, and watch the things fly out of the dealer's lot. Make the wild rear spoiler and front air dam optional for those folks who just have to have a really wild looking ride.
The WRX Impreza can carry the wings-and-things crowd and the Legacy GT-R can woo low-profile hot rod fogeys like me - not to mention putting that "adequate" word to rest once and for all.
Drooling over 227hp,
-wdb
Bob
http://www.new-impreza.com/
-mike
"SOA will shift the focus to performance when it launches the redesigned 2002 Impreza line. ... Current buyers are pushing 50 ... the 2002 Impreza is targeted at 35-year-olds. ... the launch won't feature Paul Hogan. (However), the actor will appear in two new TV spots ... for the Outback and Forester..."
Two pieces of bad news for me in all this -- first, I'm now too old, by their demographics, to lust after a WRX. Second, the advertising is going to make these things even hotter in the marketplace than otherwise. Couldn't they just keep these things a secret long enough for me to buy one at a reasonable price?
(Elder fogey)Ross
Bob
In case anyone else is interested in our website, the address is http://www.subaru.ca.
Greg
Ross
..Mike
..Mike
Mikesmi, sure bring the B4 motor on. But it doesn't take a genius :-) to figure out that the Impreza motor is already US-certified; all they'd have to do is bolt it in the Legacy. The whole concept could be achieved off-the-shelf as it were. Not to mention that the turbo means that you could "chip" the motor like they do the A4 1.8 to bring on an extra 20 to 50 HP. Heh heh.
Okay, skip the name change, but still take the parts I mentioned and call it the US-spec B4.
Cheers,
The Leader of the Fr---
err-ahh, Albert Einst----
err-ummm, wdb
The Insight still struck me the same as when I saw it at the car show last spring: terribly small but quite nifty-looking in a Honda-Civic-Of-The-Future sort of way.
The Prius this time didn't strike me as quite as unattractive as it did at my initial car show viewing. Part of my original car show reaction to the Prius might've been skewed by the fact that all the photos I'd seen of it beforehand made it look quite attractive, so I was disappointed that, in person, it looked oddly hunched up and terribly slab-sided. My reaction today was a little milder; instead of outright ugly, it just struck me as a not-quite-properly-proportioned Toyota Echo.
Beyond that, my street sightings were brief enough that all I can say about the cars was that the Insight slid by very quietly. (There was a little too much traffic noise when I saw the Prius to even be able to judge that about the Toyota.)
I think however, that a lot of good points have been raised, and I would like to see a lot of the same products that you all would. I think the core similarity we all have is our love of our cars!
Keep the discussion alive and your interests, likes, and dislikes voiced. Someone is listening!
Greg
Way to go Greg!
Bob
http://www.new-impreza.com/
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