News and Rumors: New SVX after all?

[BoxerFanatic]

Autoblog.com: Rumormill: Subaru planning to revive SVX with coupe version of Sports Tourer


Original source:
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/au...reaks_out.html

Might Subaru's Hybrid Tourer concept point the way forward to a revival of the iconoclastic SVX from the Nineties? According to AutoExpress, that's a definite maybe. The British motoring mag suggests that the conceptual Hybrid Tourer that's just about to get its debut at the Tokyo Motor Show is a harbinger for a range-topping luxury performance coupe from the Japanese automaker.

If true (and we're not exactly holding our breath), the new coupe would slot well above the expected rear-wheel drive coupe that will share its underpinnings with the upcoming Toyota FT-86, possibly selling for twice the price of its lesser sibling. A turbocharged 2.5-liter boxer four-cylinder engine would provide motivation, though a hybrid model may also be possible.

[K_Dub]

Also leaked today are some spy pics of a camo-subee mule on the 'Ring! The padding and contouring leaves much up to the imagination, but I will say that this is a beltline that I'd love to see on a Subaru again.

http://speedlux.com/subaru-coupe-pro...ubaru-coupe-5/

Low hood and tall greenhouse FTW! About time they trimmed some fat.

[BoxerFanatic]

just to clarify...

That mule is for the FT-86 Subaru/Toyota compact RWD coupe drivetrain. And being a completely chopped up mule, is probably not indicative of any final styling. Even the glass is pieced together, and not in an SVX sort of way...

Most likely not the rumor of a new premium coupe SVX replacement. The SVX is rumored to be coming out of the Hybrid Tourer Concept.

[K_Dub]

From what I've read that mule is a Subaru development car based on the FT-86 platform for a Subaru release. As is the case with mules you can't judge anything about styling, but with the Toyota variant debuting next week and Subaru hitting the track my guess (along with many other speculators of the internets) is that they're testing a Subaru drivetrain for said coupe. This thing is a lot closer to an actual car than the Hybrid Tourer Concept despite the fact that it's held together with duct tape.

Maybe this is similar to the SVX development going on during the release of the XT. Take the car that's going to the street in the next year, and start working on it's successor.

My only hope is that they keep proportions sane, and don't try to build another godzilla. KEEP THE BELTLINE DOWN SUBARU! (you think they heard me?)

[BoxerFanatic]

Originally Posted by K_Dub

From what I've read that mule is a Subaru development car based on the FT-86 platform for a Subaru release. As is the case with mules you can't judge anything about styling, but with the Toyota variant debuting next week and Subaru hitting the track my guess (along with many other speculators of the internets) is that they're testing a Subaru drivetrain for said coupe. This thing is a lot closer to an actual car than the Hybrid Tourer Concept despite the fact that it's held together with duct tape.

Maybe this is similar to the SVX development going on during the release of the XT. Take the car that's going to the street in the next year, and start working on it's successor.

My only hope is that they keep proportions sane, and don't try to build another godzilla. KEEP THE BELTLINE DOWN SUBARU! (you think they heard me?)

Agreed. It likely is Subaru's development mule for their half of the FT86 project... but I am not sure that with the wheels hacked so far forward, that it will be AWD... or much different than Toyota's FT86 coupe... unless Subaru is developing a divorced front differential.

and WHOLLY AGREED with you about the belt-line. That is one reason I keep asking that an SVX be based on a bit larger version of Impreza, rather than '10 Legacy, which is chunk-tastically huge, with a high belt-line, high nose, and high roof, and is otherwise needlessly huge.

No thanks.

And W-in-a-W... would be a natural addition to overhead-opening doors. And if they are less than double-length, I wish they would go with McLaren-esque dihedral doors, butterfly, or beetle-wing, or however people like to refer to them, that open forward, and rotate up, rather than gull-wing. gull wing makes more sense on hybrid tourer, since the door is basically double-long, equivalent to a 4-door without a B-pillar, longer than even a coupe's door.

[K_Dub]

I was just discussing this with a coworker. He looked at the spy pics and said "that'll be what $20-25 Thousand?"

I answered "You haven't priced Subarus in the last 10 years have you?"

[TheKoP]

I don't post here much but do lurk often... Anyway, I saw the article and was looking to post it here if no one else had. Glad the word got out.

Here's to hoping it actually does make it to production, maybe we'll even get fun windows again. Let's just pray that a manual shift is available.

[AyeJaye]

If it doesn't have the window-within-a-window, you cant even begin to compare it to the SVX. Don't get me wrong, looks like a nice car for sure, but I don't understand the comparison...