Wednesday 10th January 2018

Subaru teases STI-badged concept

We've seen the Viziv Performance Concept before. Now we actually like it.

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We've briefly reported on the Viziv Performance Concept before - most recently at last year's Tokyo show - but it was obvious to all of us that Subaru hadn't yet put its back into it. Now at last, with the tuner-dedicated Auto Salon almost upon us, the manufacturer has finally put some performance into its concept.

Naturally (and tantalizingly) this all comes with an STI badge attached. And as is typically the case, the whole thing immediately moves up a notch: the splitter, bigger sills and all-important spoiler (not to mention pink highlights) providing the Viziv with the kind of profile that immediately invokes a bedroom wall worth of Impreza back catalouge.

Is this actually pointing anywhere concrete? Well, that remains in the shade. Subaru might potentially say a little more about what's under the bonnet (a Boxer motor of some description apparently) but it might not. The Viziv is still about forthcoming design language as much as anything.

The better way to look at it is as an affirmation that Subaru still knows where it's at: five-doors, hawk-eyed, boxed arches, Boxer engined and all-wheel drive in the symetrical style. That remains the concept at the heart of the STI-badged show car, and with the current Final (farewell) Edition due any day at PH HQ, that's what we're clinging to.

[Hongkongfooi]

unfortunately this wont look remotely like anything that they make....its what the brand needs but is sadly never going to happen...such a shame