Thursday 28th May 2009

New Look Subaru Rally Car Proposed

Designer creates Impreza WRX STI and Honda S2000 replacement fantasies

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Subaru’s new Impreza polarised opinion when it was first launched, with many questioning the car’s new hatchback looks and its suitability for the rally scene.

However, one designer has seen the beauty beneath the Impreza’s skin and crafted his own three-door interpretation of the Japanese rally team’s racing Impreza. Known by his design alias ‘Grid’, the designer envisages an Impreza WRX STI with a distinctly wedge-like shape and rear three-quarter that bears a closer resemblance to the Volkswagen Scirocco than the new shape Scooby.

Grid has also been hard at work on a new look Honda S2000. No direct replacement is expected for the nippy little sports car but this rendering shows a more aggressive coupe loosely styled along the lines of the outgoing model. There’s a distinctly GT-R looking front and enormous side vents as well as a fixed hard top roof.

The drawings will never make production but we appreciate the designer’s effort for these two great looking flights of fancy.

 

[Wilburo]

Subaru looks good from the front, but the side is too wedge like...

The S2000 looks a bit like the new Z4.

[Emubiker]

from yhe side the subaru looks like an old shape civic thats been driven through halfords.

[ode]

Love 'em. Well done Grid.

[Jag-D]

Not a fan of Poobarus, but the new concept looks good

[interloper]

The Subaru has hints of a wedgy eighties concept car about it, I like that a lot. Shame its just a flight of fantasy.

[Andy T]

OMG, they're both awful!

[scoobsydub]

Subaru is a bit like the new Megane coupe from the back and almost like the Prodrive P2 from the front. I like it, shame it will never happen.. If it does I will eat a large slice of Humble pie covered in double "I told you so cream".

[Tinohead]

Hold the boat - that Subaru is only a computer based drawing?! That's immense, it looks so real. And good.

S2000 - Not so much of a fan, it looks too much like the current one - that someone's frankinstien'd a GTR front end onto.

[mainaman]

The Subaru looks fantastic

[c0ldpl4ya]

that subaru is absolutely stunning. If subaru decided to buy the design and take that into production it would sell like hot cakes, the presence of that thing on the street would be insane.

[Benten]

The blue one looks like a c4 by loeb I think.

[richie_mck]

Hold up, ive seen that scooby before, Dangermouse and penfold would be proud.

[markh1]

Really love the suburu. Would really consider buying one of those if they released it. It kind of looks like an old school space ship

[adycav]

Subaru = how the Scirocco should have looked.

[FourWheelDrift]

What a shame Prodrive didn't put the P2 into production. They could have used that instead of the new Imprezza.

[leon9191]

Top marks for the S2000 its got a real old school japanese look about it, bit like a R32 skyline GTR. love it.

[andthensome]

Back of the subaru looks like a citroen c4

the s2000 looks like a GTR

[Hongkongfooi]

WOW!!

[sprinty]

Whoever has drawn that scooby has got mad skills, I have been CADing for 10+ years and couldn't do anything near that!

On another note I think the wide arch design looks great, bit too wedge shape from the side for me but certainly many times better than the current design. Of course translating the 'paper' to the road is a very difficult thing to do these days with all the recent and up and coming legislation.

Is it just me that sees a little bit of stratos in there?

S2000, meh

Edited by sprinty on Thursday 28th May 15:32

[mattikake]

Ooh that's far more like it.

It seems Scoob's only ever get classic looks if designed as a rally car first and a road car second...