More evidence that fanboys will be the downfall of civilization: the 2008 Subaru Impreza has broken cover and the response, if you look at the Autoblog comment threads on the subject (at least three posts now), have been near-universally negative. It’s one thing when a company produces something mediocre and everyone praises it to high heaven, but it’s much, much worse when a company produces something mediocre and everyone takes a steaming dump on it:

subaru, you disgust me. you disgust me for killing any soul and character in a previously desirable car. now, your halo car is a fat corolla. bet you feel great approving this peice of shit into production.

To #19 and 23, I couldn’t agree with you two more. Subaru, one of the few independent companies out there that was in a world of its own and and large and loyal fan base, sold out. It looks too feminine, curvy, and fat. It totally lost all that edge to it that just screamed performance when you looked at one.

subaru really broke my heart with this one. and, after the sales come in strong, they will have not a reason in the world to care.

i also like the fact that there is a chick behind the wheel in the photos. it’s suitable because only women will find this fat thing appealing. i can’t see a man, given the choice, coming up to this car and buying it without the shame of looking like a queer. seriously, this thing is just about as masculine as a yaris.

Gee, all that and homophobia as well! The car must look like complete shit, right? Make you projectile vomit the first time you see it from eighty feet away? Make you want to poke your eyes out with rusty forks?

Hey, what do you know? It looks like… a hatchback. Vaguely Mazda3-ish, which was a pretty popular car last I checked. But somehow this is now the ugliest car ever made, a major disappointment to everyone (except stupid women drivers, if some of the Autoblog comments are to be believed). For comparison, a European Ford Focus and a Mazdaspeed 3:

You can easily tell which one is the ugly one out, can’t you?

You can’t tell, you say? You don’t feel particularly pained by any one of the three? Are you sure about that? We may have to revoke your fanboy privileges and welcome you back to the human race.