2012 Subaru Impreza teaser image – coming to NY Auto Show

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By Alborz Fallah | April 06th, 2011

The all-new 2012 Subaru Impreza is set for an official unveiling on April 21 at the New York International Auto Show.

The mighty Impreza has been a very popular model for the Japanese brand and the first few months of 2011 have seen its market share of the small car segment increase from around five percent (2010) to almost eight percent (March 2011). Subaru says the new 2012 model will be a completely new design for both sedan and hatch styles.

Apart from a completely new exterior, the interior is set to offer more space and significant advances in refinement. The Japanese company will also introduce a range of technological advances with the new Impreza (of which no detail is currently available).

For those of you who just can’t wait, the exact time of the unveil is 3:05 am AEST on April 21. CarAdvice will be in New York to cover the Impreza launch so you can check back then for more details. Alternatively, subaru.com.au is also set to offer images and more information at that time.

If it looks anything like the Impreza Design Concept we saw the Los Angeles Motor Show, it will more than likely be a looker.

Although the only image officially released so far is a side-view, based on the concept we can speculate that the new Impreza will be less rounded and more muscular in its stance. We can only imagine what the WRX and STI variants will look like!

Subaru Australia is yet to confirm an official release date for the new Impreza, but Nick Senior, Managing Director, said:

“We are very excited about the amazing stylish new Impreza, which will not only broaden Subaru’s appeal significantly, but offer a new level of interior quality, technology and the safety for which we’re famed.”

davie

no! no! no! no! no! no! no!!…

Subaru, repeat after me:

I should not use huge flaired guards on base models, they make the wheels look tiny.

didn’t they learn from the my 01-07???
Tas

Looking more and more like the old Hyundai Excel.
http://baji192.wordpress.com Baji

Lol and i was just starting to get used to the look of the current Impreza and they’re about to change it.

Love the concept but the production model looks a little bit plain. But usually the WRX/STI models always look better. I shall reserve judgement until then.
ZeOwner

I think it will look great, I mean look at that concept! It’s hard to tell from the side shot. I’ll reserve judgement till I see it in the flesh but side on it looks pretty cool.
PoisonEagle

Pro: at least it resembles a sedan and looks less Kia-y
Con: It looks like a 8/10 Liberty, slab sided, bland and pandering to US. Disappointing.

BlueBerry

If it actually looked more kia-y it would then have a lot me appeal than this car. Look at the Optima for instance. If Subaru stick true to the concept I will take back my comment. The concept looks pretty cool.

TT

Subaru – Less is more.
Sumpguard

I like it .

That’s a big step up from my thoughts on the current models that subaru have for sale. I didn’t think they could stuff up more than they did with the Impreza until the liberty/outback arrived and it hasn’t grown on me one bit. This is definately a move back in the right direction.
Pauly

Here’s hoping they get rid of the 4 speed Auto and start improving the interior with soft touch plastics and less cheap plastics.

TT

and the 5 speed manual
Andrew

It’ll have a CVT. Not sure which is worse really…

Vince

No thanks, you can keep it Subaru. I’ve seen enough.
Nick K

Oh dear, here we go with another styling ballsup. Flared whelk arches make the wheels look too small, Plus it looks contrived. Let’s hope it looks ok when released. Oh, and if it is released with a 4speed auto Subaru I’ll bring up my wheaties.
http://Subaru Sumodog

Concept car good looks will get diluted in production version.
Subaru is surviving with line up of ordinary looking cars . Imagine if they wake up and hire a designer who can pen a nice car.
Sales would go through a roof…
DWS1

Then they can have a go at fixing the hideous front on the outback wagons.

Jimmy James

And the sides, and the back.

Able

The everything*

macca

can’t really tell from the profile shot so will wait and see. they also need more tech – get rid of the 4 banger auto (for cvt in normal models, and dsg for the sports variants), 6 spd manual, and work on much better fuel efficiency.
andronicus

Sort of looks like a bad cheap mazda3…….subaru…what happened to you
Lars

looks like ruined Mazda 6
Zej

The rear end actually looks pretty good…. The front looks nothing like a Volvo S60, of course.
marty

can anyone tell me where the door handles are on the concept????? please
crouchy

You know Americans are stupid when car manufacturers are dumbing down styling because of them….
G

Back end is similar to Suzuki Kizashi, front is sort of a cross between Opel Insignia and new Volvos.
http://caradvice OSU811

top picture looks just like a current base model, but with the wrx/sti gaurds bolted on!!!!
concept looks good though, but they very rarely turn out the same in the production models eg suzuki kizashi!
m2m

If production model doesn’t look anything like that concept, Subaru are absolutely bonkers. They’d have the opportunity to have the best looking car in the class bar none! But It’l probably look like a pig again.

davie

Concept car had huge coupe-style front doors and tiny rear doors. (go on, have a look…) Not practical for a sedan.

I sincerely wish that they don’t change from the concepts front and rear styling.

Bet you that they screw up the production car with some ugly awful american grille and lights.

Ima Hogg

Why can’t they keep making all of the old models (Up to 2007) I would definatly buy one and they would get more sales. And you know its sad considering it is basically made for the us. The people who turned an sti into a convertible.

TT

I agree 100%. my fav is the 2000 model. Bring those out again and sales will go through the roof!

Jake

I like it. Yeah go ahead and thumbs me down

andronicus

The concept or the actual production model??

The concept I love, the top picture of what the production model looks like…i do not.
bangel

Bettter looking than a skoda

Jake02

Wrong Jake dip5h!t.

bangel

Schoolies love skoda’s

HJP

It has a lot of Mazda 3 influence from front to 3/4 back. The combination of side mirror attached to the door and window separator is strikingly similar to current Honda Civic.
Eureka

It’s certainly an improvement over the current model…but I wonder if Subaru Australia will increase the short service intervals for this new model? (currently 12,500kms or 6 months). For low-km drivers every 6 months is ridiculously short and significantly adds to the overall running costs.

(It’s interesting to note that Porsche advise service intervals every 24 months for low-km drivers!!).

Hector

How do Porsche define low-km drivers?
macca

well, mazda do 10,000k services – so they are worse. anyway, most ppl ignore the 6 month timeframe and just go by the k’s.

Eureka

My point is that 6 monthly service intervals are very short when other manufacturers who produce boxer-engined vehicles (i.e. Porsche) stipulate 24 months. I appreciate Subaru and Porsche are a different class of manufacturer…but I can’t see how Subaru Australia can justify such short service intervals.

But to answer your question, I believe current Porsche service intervals are every 30,000km or 24 months…but this is getting off-topic…
phase3

meh
Jimmy James

non-descript blob on wheels. No presence, no USP, no desireability. Subaru once designed cars that were well engineered, drove well and looked good. It now seems they are incapable of the latter and I see nothing on the horizon that suggests they are (or are interested in) addressing the issue. Its fascinating how much Subaru and Honda have dropped the ball of late. I think the problem is these companies both want to be Toyota, and are trying to build pseudo-toyotas so the mindless dullards that wander into their showrooms are not confronted by anything too different or challenging. The problem is, a pseduo-toyota has even less soul that a real Toyota, if that is actually possible!
eskylid

FAIL…… again

this would have to be the most boring looking car ever!
Valet Dabess

yeah just look like a nother car, and the wheels look small. the car to wheel ratio on the concept was fine but they got it wrong on the production version
Showtime

As boring as this is ALL base model Imprezas look bland, from the 1994 ‘GC’ chassis to the current model. Subaru needs a car for the masses to make money, they can’t just sell sporty low volume cars. I bet the WRX / STi will absolutely killer!
Mark

The front looks like a Mazda 3 and the back looks like a Toyota Corolla sedan (from the side anyway). PS If you\’re going to show a production ready concept, choose a better colour. This is worse that the colour Mazda used on the BT-50 reveal.
Hector

in response to everyone being worried about small sized wheels. the base model impreza has always been given one inch smaller wheels than the wrx. Sti gets an extra inch over the WRX. if the impreza comes out with 17s the WRX will have 18s.

Andrew

Better hope the base one has 16′s then. Tyres for 19′s are too rare so the STi, by that logic, would most likely have 20′s.

God have mercy

Marcus

Looks a lot more similar to a Mazda3 than a corolla, but thats probably a typical knee jerk reaction to the Toyota link.
I think we ought to wait for the proper reveal before getting too carried away with a one dimensional side profile image!
Shpo

Like iy
Able

It’s still very meh if I’m honest. All I see is Civic front (which no-one else picked up on) and bits of current Liberty, Mazda6, Cruze and Euro-spec Toyota Avensis in it. I’m actually rather interested to see what the hatch and WRX/STi models look like.
UMWHAT

am i the only one who just cant picture this car in sti form?
Monster

Subaru has given us the mediocrity car advertising campaign , now they deliver the actual car.
gg

Subaru, what about the FT 86? can you please just focus on getting one car out.
Blitzkrieg

Just fix the gen5 liberty first subaru.
Octavian

There’s only one Japanese auto brand that I know of that practice a good Japanese design Philosophy, and that is Mazda.