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Old 06-11-2012, 04:47 PM
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SVX is a "Halo" Car

Halo Car - A car with a stylish design or unusual features meant to draw customers into a showroom but not generate a lot of sales -- nor make a lot of money.

"A two-door GT car with avant-garde styling from the maker of sturdy and practical Outbacks and Foresters? That was the concept behind the SVX, immediately identifiable by its unusual two-piece power slide window. Representing a roughly $10,000 walkup from the next most-expensive Subaru, it gave new meaning to the term "sticker shock." The ungainly SVX found only 640 buyers during its last year on the market."

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/...fortune/6.html
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Old 06-11-2012, 04:55 PM
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Re: SVX is a "Halo" Car

Glad the SVX is still getting some honorable mentions, but the past couple of write-ups featuring the SVX have pictured beat up SVX'S. A simple search and they could have come up with some prestine examples of the SVX.
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Old 06-11-2012, 06:05 PM
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Re: SVX is a "Halo" Car

You'd think, right? The rest of the cars look like brochure shots.
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Old 06-11-2012, 06:29 PM
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Re: SVX is a "Halo" Car

That picture was on the wikipedia page for a while. That's just lazy.
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Re: SVX is a "Halo" Car

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Halo Car - A car with a stylish design or unusual features meant to draw customers into a showroom but not generate a lot of sales -- nor make a lot of money.

"A two-door GT car with avant-garde styling from the maker of sturdy and practical Outbacks and Foresters? That was the concept behind the SVX, immediately identifiable by its unusual two-piece power slide window. Representing a roughly $10,000 walkup from the next most-expensive Subaru, it gave new meaning to the term "sticker shock." The ungainly SVX found only 640 buyers during its last year on the market."

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/...fortune/6.html
Apparently the dealer in NY state where I bought my 97 in 2005 felt this way...they had it in the showroom for 3 months. I had been watching it for a price reduction. After 3 months the price went up! When I asked the manager why the price was going up on a car they couldn't sell, he explained they liked keeping it because it brought people into the showroom wondering what it was!
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