Subaru Impreza S206

Are they having a laugh

£70k and its not even April first.

By Shaun34 on 27 December, 2011, 8:30am

????

So if this is such a capable machine why again does it get 3 stars? Come on AE, I am no Subaru fan (the cars are plain ugly) but apart from that it seems this is a strong, fast and engaging machine. If your comments were for a VW, Audi or BMW it would be at least 4.5 stars. Not fair.

By PAAdam on 27 December, 2011, 12:24pm

I'd rather see some sort of NACA ducts on the front fenders rather than those cheap aftermarket looking chrome vents. The rear spoiler looks like an old TV antenna, also. I like the white/black roof combination, and I love Subies in general. This is priced through the roof, though.

By artandcolour on 27 December, 2011, 3:39pm

downsize the wing

Is it really 2.0 boxer engine or the old 2.5 one? If SUBARU goes along the trend of downsizing, better to do it with this ugly, useless, horrendous, ridiculous rear wing. Anyone above age of 14 will tell it is rubbish.

By Stivans on 27 December, 2011, 5:46pm

Looks amazing

Apart from the silly wing, this looks like one seriously focused Impreza, but how can AE estimate a price of £70k when it is only being sold in Japan? I take it this refers to the equivilant price in pounds when it goes on sale in Japan.

By cousins11 on 27 December, 2011, 9:10pm

I would assume the star rating takes value into account - £70k is a lot for a Subaru! For me to consider this it would need to be significantly cheaper than an M3

By Orange5ive on 31 December, 2011, 7:53am

my garden bench

so thats where it went, its on the bootlid of that thing? guy driving should cover his face, is he not embarrased...

By brendan on 2 January, 2012, 4:38pm

THIS CAR IS A SUZUKI KAZASHI AKA NEW SHAPE SUZUKI BALANO......

Because GM owns suzuki & subaru & if you have eyes you will see that this is a suzuki kazashi saloon with a subaru 4+4 system boxer engine & subaru impreza badges & THE MOST stupid price tag i have ever seen. A suzuki kazashi is worth about £15k i know it's priced at around the £21k mark, but in my opinion i think it's worth £15k tops, so how much is a subaru boxer engine worth £2k lets just say £5k to be genorous, now how much for a subaru 4+4 system upto £10k shall we say to be more genorous, What does that make £30k to £35k so where do they get £70k from ? I would'nt even pay £30k for this bland, plastic drizzle of a car there are many more cars out there around the £30k mark that are better quality, better looking & better equipped than this car that have the same performance 155mph & 0.60 in 4.5 secs, Old car Old engine etc etc Subaru need to start with a clean sheet of paper & i don't mean tracing paper !

By BEREAL on 3 January, 2012, 12:15am

'BEREAL' GET FACTS STRAIGHT Before Commenting-

GM does not own Subaru and never did, GM used to have a small share (21%) of FHI - Subaru's parent company - which Toyota motor co bought a chunk of and the rest was sold to a Japanese bank. GM has nothing to do with Subaru any more. Furthermore, GM do not and never did own Suzuki. Again they had a 20% share of Suzuki which was sold in 2008 so they have no ties with Suzuki aside from ongoing manufacture of Suzuki Splash being rebadged as Vauxhall/Opel, for GM. 'BEREAL' don't comment on these stories unless you have any knowledge of what your talking about or you look like a twit -as you do.....

By cousins11 on 4 January, 2012, 7:57pm

I agree with PAAdam

I agree with PAAdam

If this had been the latest 325i with a new gearbox, the headline would've been along the lines of "OMG!!! BEST EVER ULTIMATE 325I!!!!111"

AEs bias is getting beyond a joke now.

By SirWiggum2 on 5 January, 2012, 1:52pm

Price

@cousins11, I think AE are taking the base price of the car and then adding their estimated import costs... Which I'm guessing would be quite a lot due to shipping fees, shipping agent fees, import duty and customs duty...

By sausagehead on 8 January, 2012, 1:55pm