The Subaru Viziv Performance Is A Next-Gen WRX Muscle-Fest

With a Boxer four, symmetrical all-wheel drive and muscles on top of muscles, the Viziv Performance is one of the key fast car presences at the Tokyo Motor Show

Matt Kimberley

25 Oct 2017

The Subaru Viziv Performance Is A Next-Gen WRX Muscle-Fest

Subaru’s latest Viziv concept, just unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, previews just how brutal the next WRX STI could be. We like.

Mighty muscles on a vaguely three-box shape look pretty awesome. Huge, wide, squared-off wheel arches frame a monster of a design that screams fast from every orifice. Just look at those exhausts!

Unhelpfully, Subaru has kept performance details and technical data secret, but it still has the distinctive flat-four engine and permanent ‘symmetrical’ all-wheel drive. The company still openly pulls on the heritage of the Impreza; specifically WRX models.

It measures 4630mm long, 1950mm wide and has a 2730mm wheelbase. For reference that’s 35mm longer, 155mm wider (because concept) and the wheelbase is 80mm longer than the current WRX STI.

The Japanese firm says it’s focused on driver enjoyment but that it’ll also be designed to take Subaru’s next generation of advanced driver assistance systems. Following on from the clever and unique Eyesight setup, which uses two cameras spread wider apart for an effect that mimics the 3D perspective of the human eye, a new suite of crash-preventers will launch in 2020.

You’ve probably noticed that the Viziv name has been used before. It’s Subaru’s standard concept tag, meaning ‘vision for innovation.’ Apparently. The last one was a three-row SUV that became the Ascent for the North American market.

Comments

looks rad!

Those exhausts look a bit like the ones on the RC F. Me likey.

Lexus is not happy

With a bit of yobbishness of the Civic Type R

Will it go “BWAAAAAAAAHHHHHH PSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH” though?

Asking the real questions

Hmmmm not sure about it. Where’s the wang?

That should’ve been killed long ago

There wasn’t a wing on the previous concept yet we still got one in production. I’m sure the same will hold true this time around as well

We already know the technical data, it will be an EJ25 with 305 horsepower.

Aren’t they due to bump the displacement by .5L? It’s been 10 years….

It looks like if someone took the latest WRX and used the bold font on it

In 2015 they showed a concept and said that new WRX will look like that. But production car wasn’t even close.

It was close-ish

I don’t know what you define as “close”, but isn’t this what the production version looked like? Minus the obligatory concept car chique of course.

the fromt end isnt far off, agree the rest of the car isnt near the production one

Actually it was pretty close for a concept-turned-production car. Sure, the concept’s body shape is a bit different from the production model but the front was pretty close to the production model.