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I don't care that the car no longer has a push button start, dual automatic climate control, and seat warmers. I do, however, care that the design of the new center stack was executed so poorly.
The center console was a blank canvas for them to design a manual HVAC layout and they chose to put three staggered knobs in a really large and cheap looking piece of plastic. That's a big disappointment. They could have used the same basic design of the JDM climate control; just use three similar looking/sized rotary dials and use the same neat looking toggle switches to turn on/off the AC, re circulation, defog, defrost, ect. It wouldn't really have cost any more to do that and it could have looked great.
Another complaint; white lettering on a silver dial for the tach? Why? Its so difficult to see! I'm not to worked up over that because that's an easy fix with an overlay, but again its just disappointing to see another completely unnecessary design issue.
At this point, it all comes down to pricing. If they managed to keep the price really low I can overlook these new faults that the car has. I just hope that the Subaru comes to the states intact so there will be another option.
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