A new Subaru Impreza hatchback will be unveiled in the US, predicted to attract cues from the new Subaru XV – now identified as the Crosstrek globally. Here’s what it could glance like.
The up coming-technology 2024 Subaru Impreza hatchback will be revealed in the US afterwards this month, at the Los Angeles motor display – in advance of showroom arrivals following yr.
The teaser graphic launched by Subaru United states gives very little absent – having said that utilizing the lately unveiled Subaru Crosstrek smaller SUV as a tutorial (it shares its bodywork with the Subaru Impreza), these computer system illustrations were being designed to exhibit what the new Subaru hatchback could glimpse like.
The present-day Subaru Impreza hatchback and sedan arrived in Australia 6 yrs in the past, and are the oldest products in Subaru showrooms – that means they are owing for replacement, with new styling and attributes from the firm’s most recent designs.
Modern Impreza hatchback introduced a 12 months ahead of its SUV sibling, the XV – with the two cars and trucks sharing their system panels and floorpans.
They differ only in wheels, tyres, suspension (using larger in the XV). The higher-using edition of the Subaru hatch also has plastic wheel-arch cladding, and harder-wanting front and rear bumpers.
For timing of the new types, Subaru has switched the arrival timing, launching the XV – now acknowledged as the Crosstrek globally, phasing out the XV identify – in advance of the normal Impreza line-up.
Arrival timing for the new Subaru Impreza is but to be verified, nevertheless the Subaru Crosstrek is owing in Australian showrooms early next year.
Highly regarded Japanese magazine Greatest Motor vehicle experiences the future Impreza could launch in its property current market in the northern spring of 2023 (March to May possibly) – soon right after the Crosstrek.
It stays to be noticed if hatchback and sedan human body kinds are offered the hatch accounts for 80 for every cent of product sales in Japan, according to Greatest Vehicle, nevertheless small sedans stay well-known in the US.
It also continues to be to be seen when the new Impreza comes in Australia. When the motor vehicle will be exposed before November 18, the debut will be for the US sector – which sources its vehicles from Subaru’s Indiana, United states factory, rather than Japan where by Australian automobiles are crafted.
As with the Crosstrek, the new Impreza is expected to be a progress of its predecessor, not an all-new product – underpinned by the same architecture (the Subaru World-wide System) as right before, with evolutionary exterior and interior design and style.
Prototypes have nonetheless to be spied on the street, nevertheless applying the variances between previous Imprezas and XVs as a guide, Generate Photoshop guru Theophilus Chin has illustrated what the new auto could look like.
Within, assume the following Impreza to mirror the Crosstrek, with an 11.6-inch portrait touchscreen on a dashboard and instrument binnacle largely comparable to the outgoing product.
Greatest Car studies the Impreza could offer you the Crosstrek’s 2.-litre ‘e-Boxer’ hybrid procedure along with a single or two turbocharged engines: a new 1.5-litre producing 110kW/245Nm, and/or a 1.8-litre from the Japanese-sector Levorg (bought as the WRX Sportswagon right here) with 130kW/300Nm.
It’s rumoured to provide a decision of front- or all-wheel travel in Japan – even though conventional all-wheel generate in export markets is probable – with a continuously-variable automated transmissions (CVT).
In line with the Crosstrek’s gentle growth spurt, the Impreza is rumoured to be only slightly greater than its predecessor, measuring 4500mm extended, 1800mm broad and 1480mm tall, on a 2670mm wheelbase – about 25mm for a longer time all round and 25mm broader than the present-day hatchback.
The 2024 Subaru Impreza will be unveiled just before Los Angeles motor demonstrate doors open on November 18. Remain tuned to Push for a lot more.