30 September 2009 - 14:00
Hy’ flier
After a lifetime of abstinence, Subaru has finally slipped its environmental socks on. While other car firms have been hybridding and electrifying their cars for years, Subaru has been hooning around rally stages or larking around with Ken Block. This Hybrid Tourer will change that.
It has three motors - one petrol and two electric. Because it's a Subaru, the petrol engine is a 2.0-litre boxer, loosely related to the one in an Impreza. The first electric motor sits at the front of the car, next to the petrol engine, but only chips in power to the front wheels when the car's going uphill. When it's not sending power to the wheels, it acts as a power generator to run things like the stereo and wipers.
The other electric motor sits at the back and is used at really low speed; say, when you're reversing into your garage. It also assists the petrol engine under acceleration.
Most of the time, though, it's the boxer that does the driving and power is delivered through a CVT gearbox. There's a stop/start function too, to save a little more fuel.
It also has the biggest gullwing doors we've ever seen, running the entire length of the car, so they serve both the front and back seats.
The car will be shown at the Tokyo show later this month.
Now watch a Subaru doing what it does best:
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those doors must be annoying in a garage... and the rear lights look like those on an alfa brera
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CVT. Enough said.
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I thought that was a Renault or Citroen (though I say Citroen purely on those rear lights - GTbyCITROEN-ish, no?) If only those gullwings flapped...
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omg! mikeado uve beaten me again! gull wing doors are realy making a come back arent they?
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buy one of these and u better knock through the side of ur garage, and part of the roof. only way ur going to get in/out of the car.
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its good to see everyone's being mature here... but yeah it does look very alfa-ish...brera maybe? those gullwing doors are a bit jazzy though arent they...
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i think it'll make for a great getaway car with those monster doors!
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Ha ha! I thought its an Alfa.
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agreed with joel44w, how ever i can see you got comment #1 you don't need to state the obvious.
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I damned if I'd walk under those doors, if the gas ram went you'd be crushed. And sounds like when you go up a hill the stereo will stop (obviously not though). haha. I wonder how long it'll be before we see electric cars being totaled for their component parts (magnets, rare metals etc).
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I damned if I'd walk under those doors, if the gas ram went you'd be crushed. And sounds like when you go up a hill the stereo will stop (obviously not though). haha. I wonder how long it'll be before we see electric cars being totaled for their component parts (magnets, rare metals etc).
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They wont release it with those doors. have you seen a Japanese garage? You need to fold the mirrors in to park. Gullwing doors will never work in Japan.
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If the gullwing door is pivoted from somewhere near the centre of the roof the door lifts upwards and towards the centre-line of the car. That means you need less space on each side to open them than you do with regular doors and they give you enough headroom to slip out of the car when they're fully open. It's a breeze to get in and out of the car in tight spots in open parking lots. So if you have a narrow and tall garage you're ok but if the ceiling is low you're pretty much in it deep. On the design front, way to copy the Brera Scooby.
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For a graphic presentation check out http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/De_lorean_door_diagram.gif
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Alfa will definitely want a word with them about that rear end. Looks a lot better than anything else to come out of Subaru for a LONG time though.
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Looks like its goin to be a nice, posh car. But i do agree with everyone. You will need a very big garage to get in and out of it!
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Do any of you get the faint whiff of the same problem in a car park as the Ford GT40?
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Hmm... I must admit it looks rather interesting but the rear looks like it was chopped from the Brera...
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this is the new alfa romeo brera concept for 2012 isnt it, oh wait its a subaru, when did subaru ask Pininfarina to design thier cars?.........
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30 September 2009
alfaish anyone?? first comment by joel44w
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