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That’s terrible. Random Solterra cladding and fog lights. I prefer the look of the CX-50.

So when does the BRZ get its unpainted plastic cladding?

The teardrop black portion certainly seems off in proportion to the cladding. Like it’s too much going on between wheel arches and the front fascia.

Now that you mention the CX 50, I get a Volvo vibe from that car that I ain’t mad about.

Wireless Carplay and AA, not bad.

What's the point of the strip of paint between the "vent" and wheel? At this point they may as well leave it unpainted like the Solterra and Adrenaline concept.

Just to make the Subaru haters have more to talk about...

...and the haters of Subaru haters too.

I don't see MPG enhancing golf-ball texture on that plastic...

Holy crap it does look like Alice Cooper. Maybe King Diamond***8230;.

When I saw this back in September, my first thought, even before I had decided if I liked it or not, was "NASIOC is going to hate this".




Like it or not, I'm stuck with it.

They gave the Outback a Fu Man Chu

Is ***8216;bespoke complication***8217; a proper term?

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I wasnt aware that refresh meant black painted 2016 Legacy Premium wheels lol

I like it.

Sheesh, time to overhaul the design team. White is probably the worst color to show the design on, so hopefully the others won't be as bad.

Do the designers just sit around a table and ask what can we do to freshen up the design, and they all shrug and just say why not add plastic cladding all over?

From the side image, with the offroading mud splatter, it looks like they mostly have the cladding (formed into complex asymmetric shapes that you can almost imagine come from computational fluid dynamics) placed precisely where it won't actually protect the paint from said offroading splatter.

They could have just gone with basic mud flaps or some clear plastic film on the doors and called it a day... Maybe this cladding is all really shopping cart dent protection.

I imagine that for the Wilderness refresh, the entire doors and hood of the car will be golf textured plastic.

Amateurs...

Someone high up at Subaru design definitely has a hard on for black plastic. It looks cheap to me like the treatment of a stripped down base model.

Still better than the WRX, by at least a few thousand miles

did I hear you say you like plastic?

You know, it actually looks better than the Wilderness edition.