What is it?
 

http://www.subaru.com/sub/misc/2008/...own/index.html

...2008 WRX/STI?

<tin foil hat>Hmmm ... Subaru has press conferences scheduled for the 4th and 5th of april at the NY auto show</tin foil hat>

Hmm, and they've been talking about debuting the new Impreza there for about 6 months now... hmmm... whatever could it be.

Doomsday... :eek:

hatchback?

What's new for 2008?

"A legend will be reborn"!?! Finally, the 360 is back!

http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/i...baru360-00.jpg

Everything!

(actually, no one knows since it hasn't debuted yet)

This silliness is going on at nabisco. I believe nothing.

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=1230198

Aren't there one or two members over there who post in News and Rumors from Cherry Hill?

Members and/or mods....taunting bastards....

And they've been deleting posts left and right, and other people keep posting them, and then they get deleted.

Its quite funny, actually.

Anyway... about the car:

I think the overall shape of the car is pretty good. I dislike the details... dumb grill, dumb tail lights, dumb fog lights, back to small brakes...

But the interior is very tidy... I like that a lot. And overall, I think there's a tremendous opportunity for a very sick STi out of that thing... imagine the hatch with some wicked big fender flares, splitters, etc.

Still, the car seems to have lost its way when you compare it to the glory of the 22b era cars... then again when you compare it to modern WRC cars, it's much more like the Citroens and Fords...

Those are all the things that make me think that these chops are rough-hewn at best. Why in the beard of Zeus would they revert back from good brakes? These have to be from the Regular Impreza model, as is the grille IMO. Overall shape I also like, but again I think we are seeing another rendering when it comes to any details.

You realize that those pictures are supposed to be of the actual car from Motor Trend's forth coming article, no? I'm willing to bet we're past doctored pictures.

Yeah, we're a little over a week away from the unveiling. I wouldn't be surprised if Motor Trend and other magazines already got real deal press photos from Subaru along with an embargo on releasing them. If the article was really leaked, then it is very likely these are real.

grill looks like it should be on a chrystler...

oh snap, we americans need our chrome, yo.

i'm sure this thing can grow on me. as for now i still need my sedan.

Geez Louise, it's like they are trying to make them uglier and uglier.

I still think that the cake of these photos is on, but the frosting is off or embellished. Look at the passenger fog light, its crooked. The grille looks just a little wrong in angle, like it doesn't quite match the angle of the car. MT has posted wrong "official" photos before....If this is what it is, and that's just how it is, then I am even more glad I got my 06 when I did. This is bunk, but I'm sure the STI will still be awesome.

As someone posted on nabisco: "if this is real, the value of my car just went up $5k!"

UGLY

I am glad I have an '05

Don't know if this is real or not, but saw this earlier...

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...gg39/08wrx.jpg

That's an old render, and while it actually seems to carry a lot of the same element in the latest photos, a lot of the specific details are off. And the difference (visually at least) between the Impreza and the STi is in the details. I don't know how much we can take from that render.

From what I've been reading (and this might have changed) is that the STi isn't going to debut in NY next week. Its going to be saved for a concurrent announcement at a European or Japanese auto show in the late summer.

It is less ugly to me at first glance than the bugeyes were in 2001.