2017 Subaru Impreza Sport and Sport Premium REVIEW | New Interior, New Platform… This Is The All-New Impreza Arriving December
THIS IS THE NEW 2017 SUBARU IMPREZA. LONGER, LOWER, WIDER, IT INTRODUCES A NEW SENSE OF STYLE TO THE IMPREZA RANGE.
More importantly, what you are looking at here is Subaru’s future. Below this car’s skin is a new Subaru global platform; modular, expandable, it will sit under every new Subaru - from the next generation XV, to the Liberty, Outback, and Tribeca.
These are pre-production models which Subaru invited us to drive in Japan. We drove the hatch version only, in Sport and Sport Premium models, but had the opportunity to also look closely over the new sedan (and its subtle ‘duck-tail’).
These are smart-looking cars, inside and out. The quantum leap is the very appealing, stylish interior. And, outside, the more-pronounced ‘wedge’ lines, though an evolutionary design, manage to look both unmistakeably new while also unmistakeably ‘Subaru’.
And, as we were to discover on a tight cycling track (of all things) some three hours South of Tokyo, they are quieter, turn tighter and flatter, are more comfortable and more stylish and feel greatly improved everywhere.
OVERVIEW
Subaru Australia MD, Nick Senior, describes the new Subaru Impreza and its impending launch in Australia in early December this year, as “one of Subaru’s most anticipated and exciting model launches”.
“With this one,” he said, “we have now got the recipe right. It ticks all the boxes for style and design, (is) a leader in safety and we expect it to be a match for cars almost twice its price.”