New Daily Driver - '15 WRX - Q&A Welcome

[jlee]

just one question (even though you won't be able to answer it). when the heck will subaru offer a hatch version? I need the utility of the hatch for my business. I guess it's back to VW for me :\

Forester XT?

 

[NutBucket]

I'll bet a hatch comes out in a year or two.

Forester XT is OK...but the handling needs a lot of help plus CVT only.

 

[cyclistca]

just one question (even though you won't be able to answer it). when the heck will subaru offer a hatch version? I need the utility of the hatch for my business. I guess it's back to VW for me :\

A camouflaged WRX hatch has been seen out in the wild. Maybe it will be a 2016 model.

 

[Aharami]

this gives me hope.

 

[Occ]

Nice ride, OP! Do you plan to add a roof rack? It seems the WRX/Impreza only supports the clamp ones, which is highly unfortunate in my estimation.

Forester XT is OK...but the handling needs a lot of help plus CVT only.

Isn't there a Forester STI in the works? Ah, it's been teased.

 

[reallyscrued]

No plans to add a roof rack, but a dude on NASOIC went ahead and drilled one in.

The official word on the hatch WRX is that they didn't want to spend resources developing two different bodies when they could spend all resources making one really good one.

Not sure how much truth there is to that.

 

[NutBucket]

My guess is they don't have the manufacturing capacity to handle both models currently. Their factories in Japan are running full capacity.