Comments on: Subaru Exiga MPV officially revealed

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:32:41 +0000

you know that noise Sideshow Bob made in the Simpsons when he is chasing Bart in the Cape Fear episode, and keeps standing on rake heads that keep coming up and slamming him in the face? After each time he lets out an “uurrgghh”. Well, if you do remember it, that describes perfectly the noise I made involuntarily when I saw this damn, damn ugly car…..

By: sig3i

sig3i — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:11:06 +0000

Interior space looks promising and those rear seats might be a bit bigger than the ones in Tribeca. Looking forward to seeing it in oz, although they should consider putting larger wheels on it by default.

By: Davo

Davo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:04:32 +0000

I think if a design team was made up of some of the above you would end up with an XF Falcon.

By: BOSSCR

BOSSCR — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:35 +0000

YOU ARE JOKING ME!?!?!

What have they done? Such a waste of potential. How can they make a good looking car like the Liberty and this….?

By: Myke

Myke — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:59:47 +0000

I agree with TP, the front is okay, far better than the front of the Forester and the Impreza (without the mesh grille). The vehicle as a whole looks dodgy.

By: John of Perth

John of Perth — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:04:22 +0000

I think the movie Cars seems to be the inspiration for the designers at Subaru. Come to think of it, so are the drawing board teams at Mazda, Honda and Toyota – nothing original for their mainstream vehicles. Problem is these have been market tested which must be saying something about the folk they run these past. Even a Bangle’d BMW has more passion.

By: Ben Dova

Ben Dova — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:13:41 +0000

Coming to a funeral parlor near you. Why dont they just call it Subaru Hearse. Then they can take all their designers for a drive in it after shareholders and stakeholders finish with them.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:41:06 +0000

is it just me or does subaru only seem to have 1 engine/gearbox combination?

looks like an outback with raised roof

By: Naughtyius Maximus

Naughtyius Maximus — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:46:32 +0000

Take your sour grapes elsewhere TP….it looks like a third last Mazda 2 model from front with more upturned visual look around lower driving lights. Real cutting edge look…..”NOT”

By: TP

TP — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:24:28 +0000

Geezus. Front is ok, nice in fact (Liberty-ish) but the rear is disgraceful

By: Greenroom

Greenroom — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:23:35 +0000

oh sanjay…dear old sanjay…but i do agree that they need to “chop a bit off the roof” but they should continue to chop down to the ashphalt and keep chopping till they get a big hole, then I agree they should “chuck the 3 litre boxer engine in” the hole that is, and also chuck in the designers along with your drum of sulphuric acid, then bury the bloody lot and start again.

By: Captain Mainwaring

Captain Mainwaring — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:43:28 +0000

Nowhere near as space-efficient or funky as the soon-to-be-replaced Honda Odyssey (for those who like this sort of thing), nowhere near as pretty as the Citroen Picasso, and what’s this about a FOUR-SPEED auto?
Now that Toyota’s in charge of Subaru, it seems they are on a mission to destroy the brand. With things like this it won’t take very long.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:19:29 +0000

you chumps must have been filling your eye sockets with sulfuric acid because that looks awesome. a 7-seat MPV that looks like a liberty wagon? damn…

…all they need to do is chop off a bit of the roofline, offer it in sedan and chuck the 3 litre boxer 6cyl engine in there and presto, new liberty. :)

keep the diesels the hell away from this great brand, thanks. the penny-pinchers can go elsewhere.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:46:39 +0000

Whoa, to be clear I’m not saying that this car is beautiful, I just don’t see the turd like ugliness that everyone else seems to?

By: Marketmaker

Marketmaker — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:38:35 +0000

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”… to see beauty in this you would want to “beholding” your 20th beer!

By: Marketmaker

Marketmaker — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:35:26 +0000

Greenroom – LOL…

Bland does sell – but its also very easily copied, and the mother of all copiers is about to land (Chinese).

Small volume vehicles can make profit – absurdly high profit in fact. Just ask the car company with the highest margins in the business (Porsche). But to be a success as a small volume seller you must have a niche, a strong brand that people can rely on to not go all nasty on them, and make excellent product.

They should stick with what has created their reputation to date:
Cars that are innovative, unique, strong, brutally effective, no frills.

Subaru had it, but they are losing it fast. They cannot compete with high volume blandness – they will get blown away.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:31:52 +0000

That said, I don’t actually mind the look, but I drive a Peugeot so I have unusual taste to begin with anyway.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:29:10 +0000

I don’t see the fuss, Impreza’s have always been an ugly car. Their looks have been improved with the new model and this one is just longer and more square looking Impreza.

Carl, Looks are in the eye of the beholder but the clowns above were complaining about the very Idea that Subaru would make a car like this. Like its the death of Subaru’s reputation.
Isn’t the Impreza STi faster than it ever has been before? So what’s the problem? The looks are not to your taste. As I said before Impreza’s have always been ugly, what has changed? This car is no different to all other Subaru’s, ugly but effective.

By: Greenroom

Greenroom — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:38:19 +0000

If you squint your eyes tight, it still looks like a turd.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:27:25 +0000

Alec……Who cares what sort of transmission this thing has when you can’t get past it’s looks!

Jimdo…..i don’t see people complaining about the concept of Subaru building a people mover…..i see people saying that this thing is ugly!! is Subaru in competition with Ssyanyong to build the ugliest cars in the world????