{"id":745,"date":"2007-06-29T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2007-06-29T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:26:25","slug":"2008-subaru-wrx-dumpy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"2008 Subaru WRX: Dumpy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the proud owner of a 2002 Subaru WRX and despite its somewhat controversial &#8220;bug eye&#8221; styling, I think it&#8217;s a great looking car.\u00a0 Styling-wise the WRX has gone through some minor changes between the 2003 and 2007 models, but all retained pretty much the same sheet metal, changing mainly things like the headlights, tail lights, turbo intake scoop, etc.\u00a0 The 2008 model, however, will be the first &#8220;ground up&#8221; revision of the look of the WRX and based on these images from their website I just checked out, my verdict is: <em>dumpy, dumpy, dumpy<\/em>.\u00a0 Is it just me, or does this vehicle, which started of as a 300+ horese-power rally car, now look pretty much like a Ford Focus?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/06\/wrx.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"wrx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/06\/wrx.jpg\" alt=\"wrx.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"197\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the proud owner of a 2002 Subaru WRX and despite its somewhat controversial &#8220;bug eye&#8221; styling, I think it&#8217;s a great looking car.\u00a0 Styling-wise the WRX has gone through some minor changes between the 2003 and 2007 models, but all retained pretty much the same sheet metal, changing mainly things like the headlights, tail &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=745\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}