Gambit,
Almost everyone here at work has seen my car and ALL of them love it. Last year while I was waiting for my Impreza to arrive(too 3 months) I had a picture of a silver Impreza on my screen - the one with "Turkmen" license plate. They all thought it was cool looking. When I finally got it, they went to the garage to take a gander, 20 of them. All of them said that it looked much better in person than on a photo. They haven't seen it with the new TE-37 wheels and I'm hoping Nativo's front lip spoiler gets here in time so I can have it installed and painted with the side skirts.
BTW, I know that not everyone likes the look of the Impreza. Some magazine and news paper reviews thought it was embarrassingly ugly.