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Here is the test mule. The front is definately a Subie but the rear i jus can't figure out but it does look familiar. http://www.worldcarfans.com/10910132...me/lowphotos#1
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Okay test mule is a poor choice of words. It looks to be a camo'd production car/prototype. Whatever you want to call it you can clearly see the rendering is fantasy and the real car will not look like that. I can see the Subie grille and headlamp treatment from the WRX, also the A-pillar and roof line is not camo'd and is too late to change this late in the game. The blue rendering uses the Skyline/370 Roof A-pillar.
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Okay test mule is a poor choice of words. It looks to be a camo'd production car/prototype. Whatever you want to call it you can clearly see the rendering is fantasy and the real car will not look like that. I can see the Subie grille and headlamp treatment from the WRX, also the A-pillar and roof line is not camo'd and is too late to change this late in the game. The blue rendering uses the Skyline/370 Roof A-pillar.
I don't think any Manufacturer would suddenly go that low with waistline on their mainstream cars these days. Toyota has never been a company known to do revolutionary or daring designs. The whole car looks like some 80's car with Merkur XR4Ti copy on the back and some really messed up doors that doesn't flow with the waistline, then slap on WRX STI's front. I can almost guarantee that the final product would look much more closer to the rendering, but with milder look.
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Manufacturers sometimes use old shells or combinations of chopped shells as camo sometimes, for example Ferrari used F355 shell for some Enzo engined mule.
I don't think any Manufacturer would suddenly go that low with waistline on their mainstream cars these days. Toyota has never been a company known to do revolutionary or daring designs. The whole car looks like some 80's car with Merkur XR4Ti copy on the back and some really messed up doors that doesn't flow with the waistline, then slap on WRX STI's front. I can almost guarantee that the final product would look much more closer to the rendering, but with milder look.
I don't think any Manufacturer would suddenly go that low with waistline on their mainstream cars these days. Toyota has never been a company known to do revolutionary or daring designs. The whole car looks like some 80's car with Merkur XR4Ti copy on the back and some really messed up doors that doesn't flow with the waistline, then slap on WRX STI's front. I can almost guarantee that the final product would look much more closer to the rendering, but with milder look.
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I saw an engineering mule a while back and it looked like a hacked up Legacy, which is the platform of which this car is based.
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I understand that. I don't believe this to be an chopped shell engineering mule. I think this is a disguised production car. We are past the point of mules if they are planning on releasing the car with in the next year to year and a half.
I saw an engineering mule a while back and it looked like a hacked up Legacy, which is the platform of which this car is based.
I saw an engineering mule a while back and it looked like a hacked up Legacy, which is the platform of which this car is based.
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I'm still think this is a mule, it looks too clumsy to be a production-prototype. My guess is that they are jus making last minute adjustments and information gathering before moving onto the actual prototype. Porsche had their 2010 911 mule running around mid last year and they are out now.
