Saab 9-2x

Now our North America readers may well recognise this, well maybe, but I guarantee that most people reading this in Europe will be squinting at the screen and muttering “that’s got to be a photoshop”. No you’re right in your thinking it is a Subaru Impreza estate with a Saab 9-3 front end grafted on.

Subaru BRAT Rear Seats

To be honest there’s probably enough about the BRAT to warrant its own article, but upon reading an article on Jalopnik about the lack of small pickups and 60 year old “chicken tax” as the reason behind it. So how did Subaru get around this?

Subaru Jo-Car

When you think of Subaru these days sophisticated, crisp and huge air intakes spring to mind, but back in 1987 things were a little different. This was a concept shown at the 1987 Tokyo Car Show and there’s no denying it’s built to grab your attention. In fact I don’t think there was a base colour that wasn’t used!!!!!!

Subaru SVX

Personally I’ve never actually seen one of these in the flesh, most probably because Subaru only sold 25000 of which only 2500 were sold in Europe!!!! It was Subaru’s attempt to enter the US luxury/performance sector. Unfortunately this good looking car with Eastern and European styling was released on the public in 1991 just in time for a recession. The low sale number should detract from a good car from all accounts, with a flat Boxer 6, 3.3ltr engine producing 230bhp, it certainly was no slouch and in looks department it was a departure from the usual US 3 box or jelly mould cars for sale in the US at the time. Infact it seems to have taken a few styling cues from the Renault Alpine GTA released only a few years before. It just goes to prove that Subaru had a number of irons in the fire at this time along with the legendry Impreza, which seems to have lost its way in its current incarnation.






For more information-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Alcyone_SVX


http://subarusvx.com/index.html