you can get the impreza in a saloon now

colm_mcm

Did this escape everyone else's notice too?

Absurdum

yes

do they only sell the diesel here now?

Alanstrainor

This is the first i heard of it too.

245

Its been sold in the US and other markets for a good while now.

Its not available here though is it? Hardly worth shipping over stock that won't appeal to UK buyers...

hanloj1

I heard they were selling it too. There's is no price for the saloon on subaru.ie though.

bmw535d

colm_mcm

Subaru uk are selling the wrx saloon.

Eric Cartman

bmw535d wrote: »

sweet, when are you going to claim to own that

pburns

Think it's special order and that no diesels have been brought in (I'd say they're backed up with old stock hatches as it is!).

Apparantly though they are changing design direction across the range. Starting with the new Impreza:

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/11/17/subaru-impreza-concept-la-2010/

I hear Daihatsu are pulling out of Europe because the weakness of the Euro against the Yen has made pricing uncompetitive. Subaru has the same problem, hence the rising prices... They're not like Toyota, Honda, Nissan etc. who have European plants...

Testament1

Yep I'd heard about this alright. Great news as the saloon Impreza is much more appealing than the hatch. Cant understand why they cut it in the first place. I know Petter Solberg had been lobbying them for a while to produce a hatch version of the Impreza to regain competitiveness with the other hatch shape cars in the WRC but surely they could have still offered the saloon variant. As someone who grew up in love with the WRC Imprezas a hatch version was never really going to win me over (with the exception of Ken Blocks gymkhana Impreza which is rather tasty).

pajero12

Eric Cartman wrote: »

sweet, when are you going to claim to own that

Ahahahaha...I love boards

x in the city

good for about 10 mpg id say

Nissan doctor

pburns wrote: »

I hear Daihatsu are pulling out of Europe because the weakness of the Euro against the Yen has made pricing uncompetitive. Subaru has the same problem, hence the rising prices... They're not like Toyota, Honda, Nissan etc. who have European plants...

Well the latest daihatsu's are made using mostly Toyota parts so surely they could be made in Toyota's european plant.


I believe that the Impreza saloon is being brought to the UK but not here.
The Saloon has been sold outside europe since the launch of the new model.

bazz26

Emmissions based VRT and road tax put an end to any chance of the WRX coming here.

BTW the Impreza name has now been dropped along with the hatchback version. It will just be called the Subaru WRX STi.

high horse

Pistonheads gave one away at the end of last year

http://www.pistonheads.com/subsite/WRXSTI/default.asp?tabno=1

fc11

Eric Cartman wrote: »

sweet, when are you going to claim to own that

;);)
haha,nice.

irish1967

fc11 wrote: »

;);)
haha,nice.

+1;)

Alanstrainor

fc11 wrote: »

;);)
haha,nice.

irish1967 wrote: »

+1;)

Alright lads, i think that's enough of that, it's starting to get old at this stage.

Cmar-Ireland

x in the city wrote: »

good for about 10 mpg id say

Deffo get 28mpg outta that :pac: