Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Subaru Lacetti/Chevrolet Impreza

As a special request I'd like to bring out a weird similarity. This will probably be my last post from the car show, since it's running out of date.
Photo: Karl Hallik

This is a Chevrolet Lacetti hatchback. It's quite old already, so to say. Yet it's quite nice and sporty. Perhaps they've benefitted from their WTCC experience (the rear wing of their WTCC car is seen in the background). Anyway, the point of the post is here:
Photo: Karl Hallik

This is the new Subaru Impreza. It came out about half a year after the Lacetti. Did they run out of ideas or something? Because.. well.. apart from the rear side window, they're quite similar. So, if I bought a Lacetti for half the price of a Subaru, painted it blue and installed gold rims, would you really be able to say I'm a Subaru wannabe?

PS, when Subaru came out with their hideous hatchback, people were thanking God Mitsubishi kept their EVO as a sedan. Two months later Mitsubishi 'proudly' announced the new EVO will be a hatchback. Good-bye pretty rally cars!

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