Interesting, though I'd suggest that they perhaps made it too soft.

...but they fixed the only issue I had with it, so I like it even more.

 

Its weird I would never say the B9 Tribeca was a great looking car but it deffinately had personality which is something I enjoyed about the car.

This new facelift just seems so bland to me.

 

Its weird I would never say the B9 Tribeca was a great looking car but it deffinately had personality which is something I enjoyed about the car.

This new facelift just seems so bland to me.

That's kinda of where I'm at with it.

 

looks like a Hyundai

subaru needs help!

 

subaru has fallen into the cars as "appliance" hole, ala Toyota IMHO.

 

Definitely MUCH better then the uglified Tribeca nose but kinda mainstream now without the typical Subaru "quirkiness" is famous for.

 

subaru has fallen into the cars as "appliance" hole, ala Toyota IMHO.

They want to sell cars to IJAC.

You can't have polarizing styling and still sell to everyone.

I think most Toyota models out today are pretty hansom, i don't see where people are getting the whole "they look and drive like appliances" stuff...

in fact, the only things they sell that give me that impression are the Prius, Corolla, and Avalon..


I'm really not a fanboy, but they make some good products. I find Chrysler's products up until the last couple of years to be far more appliance looking and blah.


But I'm with FJ1, they toned it down too much (I AM a Subaru fanboy), but i also saw literally hundreds of Tribecas sitting on the lot with no buyers when we bought our WRX.

 

That is perhaps the blandest thing I've ever seen. Did a Chinese car company design it?

 

When I was finally getting use to, even kind of liking that "funky" front end on the B9, they go and make it look like the new Sebring.....?

 

so when did Hyundai buy Subaru?:dunno:


First the impreza, and now the Tribeca....hmmm

 

I agree it's bland, but I think that will work with the target market. There's nothing really interesting about that car. It's just a very competent transportation appliance. It's an AWD Toyota Sienna. So, this will work.

It's not like this was supposed to be some Dakar racer or something. Though I wish they made one...

 

so when did Hyundai buy Subaru?:dunno:


First the impreza, and now the Tribeca....hmmm

Yeah, I agree, BOOO! Bad move on Subies part, IMHO.

 

Mass main stream vehicles must be boringly styled??? Lets see if this strategy works for Subaru.

 

I don't know whats up with Subaru and all this extreme styling. They took the Tribeca from extreme left field all the way to extreme right field.....quirky to positively boring. Same thing with the Impreza's.

If they wanted all their cars to look alike, they could have at least picked the Legacy for their corporate look.

 

Good.

Doesn't look like a flying butthole anymore.

 

got rid of the female privates looking grill huh? Looks pretty boring

 

meh at first the tribeca was weird
now it's just plain

 

hmm not diggin' it at all. so boring.

-spatakula

 

as much as id agree the present tribeca's grill is pretty ugly... this new style is just kia mini-van-ish! ...mmm i like ugly, what can i say!

 

Chrysler Town and Country front end ??


or perhaps the first gen Sebring Convertible front end only more narrow and taller

 

i think this pic make sit look a lot better.. nice brown color too

 

i think this pic make sit look a lot better.. nice brown color too

At least they got rid of that weird indentation in the back around the license plate indentation

They must have shipped their alfa romeo designer back to italy

 

Wow. They threw away a signature pretty quickly.

It WAS polarizing... but once you got used to it, the entire Subie lineup became very attractive IMO.

aaaaand they're on their way back to the bland brand I never took notice of. Kudos.

 

wow they changed ALLOT on the rear end really fast to bland it down. EVERYTHING from the back of the door back is different! The glass, D pillar, lights, bumper, hatch etc.. For how much they changed, it does nto look all that different. They could have simpally drduced the size of the plate opening in the hatch to just fit a US plate, rather than making the opening EU size. It would have just involved changing the sheet metal of the hatch cover, not redoing the entire rear end!

 

Maybe if they "tried" to sculpt a different grille in there, I'd like it.