Subaru confirms rear-drive coupe

[Old Skool Subbie]

For those that have not seen this...

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/262126/subaru_confirms_reardrive_coupe.html#ixzz1B0z6j6FY

 

Subaru’s new Coupe is go! The Japanese firm has confirmed that a concept version of its long-awaited Coupe, jointly developed with Toyota, will make its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March. No pictures have yet been released, but our exclusive renderings give you an idea of how the newcomer will look.

What’s more, the firm has confirmed that the car will be built on an all-new platform, and while the Coupe will feature Subaru’s trademark horizontally-opposed boxer engine, it won’t get the firm’s symmetrical all-wheel drive. Instead, like to Toyota model, it will be rear-drive, giving the firm a rival to Hyundai’s Genesis Coupe in the US market.

Subaru has also confirmed that it will show its new Impreza Concept, which was first seen at the LA Show last year, and the firm’s new Trezia model which is a B-segment MPV that’s essentially a rebadged version of Toyota’s forthcoming Verso-S.

Read more: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/262126/subaru_confirms_reardrive_coupe.html#ixzz1B88KYQQi

[dubbedup]

hope to see it at some high level drift events!!

[GravelBen]

 autoexpress said:

No pictures have yet been released, but our exclusive renderings give you an idea of how the newcomer will look.

Ah yes, autoexpress renderings = we don't have a clue what it looks like so we're making sh!t up again to try and attract sales. The only guarantee is that it won't look like that

Good news that they're finally making it though! It wouldn't surprise me to see a 4wd STI version somewhere down the track.

[GregNZ101]

I highly doubt any 4wd versions will come out as I would expect the engine to be sitting either between or behind the front wheels

[KING PIN]

I smell trouble for all drifters out there when the subaru RWD gets released and takes over the drifting scene too hahahahaha

[subieboy]

 GregNZ101 said:

I highly doubt any 4wd versions will come out as I would expect the engine to be sitting either between or behind the front wheels

Here's hoping STI might do a RWD one then... YUMMO (if it looks similar to the Toyota)

[GregNZ101]

I though that the Toyota as going to be JDM, and Subaru for the rest of the world, but the same car basically

[GravelBen]

If its got proper Subaru-engineered suspension then it should be great fun on the gravel anyway!

[EJ20T]

be a damn interesting drive with a torquey flat 4 turbo, and low weight, S15 silvia of the 10's?