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Originally Posted by C4RBON
As others have said, if the C&D numbers are correct, you can count me out. It will be a shame, though, since I have been eagerly following the development of this car since long before this website existed.
I am in the market for a new car this spring. I am really hoping the Tokyo auto show reveals lots of concrete facts. Not just more concepts and speculation. I want to see production sheetmetal, production price, and production specs. I need information I can make decisions on! If it is cheap enough and efficient enough, I would buy it in a heartbeat, knowing that a shortly down the road I could afford to buy a second, more practical (ie bigger) car.
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Same here. Before this article, I was ready to go put a desposit on the car after Tokyo, if the weight was around 2600lbs and the price was below 23 or 24k. Everything I had read before this article led me to believe that those numbers were possible. After reading this article, I am not really excited about the car anymore. I hope that C&D is full of it, but it is not like this is some blog reporting on rumors they heard. The author had a meeting with Subaru engineers and that is where he got these estimates from. I have a hard time believing they are completely made up. Even if they are not exactly right, they will probably not be far from the real numbers. I am fully prepared to be disappointed in the news from Tokyo.