Comments on: Subaru Exiga spied

By: peter michaels

peter michaels — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:27:28 +0000

Anti-spam word Subaru lol

people movers = boring…

volvo c30 styled wrx? that could work

By: Spitfire

Spitfire — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:06:45 +0000

Sporty people mover, now that is an oxymoron.

By: Captain Mainwaring

Captain Mainwaring — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:51:09 +0000

Hang on there Richo. The Honda Odyssey has not been sold in Europe since the original 1996 model which was a failure there. They’ve since had the Stream, and that was replaced by some strange thing called FCX or something with two rows of three-abreast seats which was far from successful. Yes, the compact-sized Picasso/Scenic category does well in Europe but this long-bonneted Subaru looks nothing like that class of vehicle.
Go back to the drawing board.

By: Richo

Richo — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:32:49 +0000

Captain Mainwaring – In europe smaller people movers like this are becoming more and more popular, the citroen picasso, renault scenic and honda oddessy are very popular cars. Ok there isn\’t much of a market for them here in Australia, but i think europe juuuuust might be a slightly more important market to subaru then australia!

By: weirluo

weirluo — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:43:51 +0000

talking about style? check out the sale number of Subaru, it has increased as far as I know. So there are more people accepting it than rejecting it.

By: nathan

nathan — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:36:55 +0000

Hope it does not come out with Forrester’s 4 speed auto as the only transmission option, but it probably will.

By: Captain Mainwaring

Captain Mainwaring — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:10:57 +0000

Something odd looking about this, like the A pillars are too vertical for a modern car. If Subaru perceives that a significant market gap exists for something like this they have a pretty vivid imagination. Maybe it’s a reaction to the fact that they got it wrong with Tribeca.

By: harry

harry — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:33:38 +0000

Hi Flying and Jez, To me all but the bug eye looked pretty good for the times, and all models had the feel of un-refined differentiation. Once the propellor nose came along, the plot was lost. So no, I don’t want to live in the past and it is a new era in styling, but if so, some styling would be good and not just a mash of everyone elses stuff. If we wabt styling for today then Subie has to get away from cheap plastics, soft seats and smiley faces and look towards German / European brands that generate a stylish, quality feel. EG: look at C30 Volvo.

By: jamison

jamison — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:30:10 +0000

anti-spam word.. triumph… huh?

Yeah it looks fine to me…

everyone still in love with the MY95~MY99 WRX styling?

Are YOU KIDDING ME??

By: si1982

si1982 — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:01:08 +0000

to me it looks like an all wheel drive version of a saab!?

could it be that GM is “badge engineering” again!??????