Subaru has unveiled its new Impreza 5-Door Concept. It focuses on the design features of the next-generation Impreza, rather than the drive-train or tech. It has a compact body aimed at enhancing the Impreza's sporty reputation and, the carmaker promises, a "quality feel beyond its class."
- The repetitive refrain from Subaru is that the Impreza 5-Door Concept has a "seamlessly joined" surface structure, a "unified three-dimensional structure" and a front that "flows via the sides to the rear, with each part uniting into a solid form."
Suffice to say that the firm is pleased with the car's solid, sculptural look and how well all the sections and design elements sit together. In fairness, Gizmag's eyes-on-the-ground team describes the concept as "looking pretty sharp in the metal."
The 5-Door Concept measures 4,400 x 1,880 x 1,440 mm (173.2 x 74 x 56.7 in) and has the solid, wide and low stance on the road. Flared front fenders certainly contribute to this, although Subaru's suggestion that they "express the reliability of Subaru All-Wheel Drive" is perhaps a little more tenuous.
Elsewhere, "character lines" with "rich inflection" along the profile of the car are, of course, designed to give the 5-Door Concept a sense of dynamism. There are hawk-eye headlights and combination lights at the rear that share the same motif as the headlights. A high-luminance silver finish, meanwhile, is aimed at giving the lustrous sense of metal.
Details beyond the car's design features are very limited, other than Subaru's assurance of "excellent aerodynamics" and a promise during the press conference that it will have a car that can drive autonomously on the motorway by 2020.
The Subaru Impreza 5-Door Concept is on display at the Tokyo Motor Show.
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