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Old 11-21-2021, 10:00 AM   #155
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Well aware. For the last decade, I’ve owned Subarus, along with the FRS and 86. It’s gross. Especially when it’s done that excessively
Be OK if it was actually red. The Cherry Blossom always looks like it is 15 years old and faded out from exposure.

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dat ass still looks quite chunky though.......
But is SHOULD be chunky. The WRX/STi should look aggressive. They need to be industrial, almost agricultural (tractor like) in styling to stand out. Pretty much every complaint I have about the new BRZ should be used on the WRX. Even the plastic cladding around the wheels works in the design as it adds some aggression to the areas.
Otherwise it is just an Impreza with a scoop and blends in with every other aggressively bumpered econobox sedan out there.
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I actually like the cherry blossom accents on the black car, but it wouldn’t work as well with a different color I think.
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Old 11-21-2021, 04:12 PM   #157
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Be OK if it was actually red. The Cherry Blossom always looks like it is 15 years old and faded out from exposure.
Personally, I still wouldn’t care for it. It’s trying too hard. I think the small red strip in the grille is ok like they were doing on the S208/209 and tS cars, but when they start adding random red strips on every panel of the car (or any other color for that matter) it just screams Autozone clearance sale to me
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I actually like the cherry blossom accents on the black car, but it wouldn’t work as well with a different color I think.
Same. I like the accents paired with the black.
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Little more insight into the WRX, including the styling:
- No body panels shared with Impreza
- Buyers asked for more aggressive styling
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- Product planner said the last 3 WRX launches had controversy and people will warm up to it.

Other than being ugly, the car is an improvement in terms of quality and drivability.

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Old 12-20-2021, 02:17 PM   #161
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Other than being ugly, the car is an improvement in terms of quality and drivability.
Wheel arches only a designer could love, particularly, as Doug said, on the brighter colors. I thought we got rid of all that cladding in the 80's.

Otherwise seems like a sold effort, that's on my would not buy list.

Sadly, the wheel arches are carrying over on the Suburu/Toyota EV as well.
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Sadly, the wheel arches are carrying over on the Suburu/Toyota EV as well.
Not just carrying over, the infection is spreading.



I don't mind similar arches on the Crosstrek. It seems to suit that car well. To me, it just doesn't look right on a WRX. Maybe not at all on a sedan.
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I strangely like how the cladded wheel arches look with the red car, less so in the blue or orange.
Black/grey doesn't really matter since those would hide it the most and make it the car look the least outbackish.
With white its too easy to see the black cladding below.

Theres definitely gotta be to be some kind of body colour match with them either sometime down the line or with the STI.

The Lexus UX got the same flak for wierd black plastic cladding wheel arches. But its more acceptable there since its a small CUV (which curiously actually looks more like a raised hatchback). They added some body coloured arches as part of some option packages recently and it helps make it look less SUVish.
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I strangely like how the cladded wheel arches look with the red car, less so in the blue or orange.
Yea, black on red usually works OK. Of the colors I would buy (meaning not black) this seems to work the best.

On the MK1 MR2 I always preferred the black whale tail that was on the '85 I owned vs the body color ones in later years.

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Little more insight into the WRX, including the styling:
- No body panels shared with Impreza
- Buyers asked for more aggressive styling
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- Product planner said the last 3 WRX launches had controversy and people will warm up to it.

Other than being ugly, the car is an improvement in terms of quality and drivability.
I could be wrong, but I'm 95% certain that the last WRX didn't share any body panels with the Impreza either. Honestly I wouldn't call this design "more aggressive" unless they're talking about the huge grill up front which juts out. And I don't call that aggressive, I call it sloppy. And I'd love to see documentation of buyers asking for unpainted plastic body cladding.
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Love to rev my high-performance import sports sedan out to it's absolutely atmospheric 6,000 rpm redline!

Okay other than that sarcasm...and the cladding...I'm encouraged by the reviews so far.

FWIW the glossy black cladding on the JDM cars looks much better than the matte cladding on the USDM cars. Levorg still the best though!

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