Hmmm, wonder why.

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January 9, 2020, 11:20 AM CST




UPDATE: Subaru of America reportedly found it necessary to disavow itself from the Forester Ultimate Customised Kit Special edition that was displayed at this year's Singapore Motor Show.
According to The Drive, the automaker sent a letter to its American dealership network to explain that it "had nothing to do with this" and that "it obviously goes without saying that this car will not be available in the United States market."

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Subaru likely brought several serious concepts to this year's Singapore Motor Show. We sincerely hope that this is not one of them.

Meet the Forester Ultimate Customised Kit Special edition (little "e"). If you're old enough to be on the Internet, you certainly know exactly where this is going, and it's not anywhere appropriate.

In this lighting, it's hard to tell, but the F***S edition appears to be finished in Subaru's World Rally Blue, and the pin-striping is very likely STI's signature cherry blossom pink, but we frankly cannot tear our eyes away from the podium, which is emblazoned with the custom Forester's name.

As Top Gear Philippines points out, it's otherwise a fairly generic show car. From the body kit that gives it a low-slung attitude to the custom paint work, nothing about the F***S edition appears out of the ordinary. It's even rocking a set of 20-inch Enkei wheels over yellow brake calipers.

We're not sure what exactly is going on under the hood, but we wouldn't be surprised to find the normal host of bolt-on factory and aftermarket power-adders, or maybe even a full-blown STI powertrain just for extra cred.

Inside, it has yet more of the trappings of a run-of-the-mill SEMA build. A huge touchscreen up front controls a custom audio system backed up by Focal amplifiers and a subwoofer. There's custom blue ambient lighting in the front cabin and a set of tablet-style monitors for rear passenger entertainment.

The execution leads us to believe that either its builders had no clue, or they simply gave no... well... you know.

Comes standard with a pack of smokes.

There is an apocryphal story - perhaps a joke - about Honda engineers inventing some kind of power enhancement device for their motocross engines. They were about to call it Honda Energy Reactive Power Exhaust System, but somebody realized this spelled out HERPES and that name was nixed.

Well FUCK them then.

I was in union service / pipe-fitter school, fourth year & we were learning about variable frequency drives. Our instructor was particularly upset about the (Toshiba) York-branded Air Mod III. If you looked at the wiring diagram, they labeled a fuse FU2........problem was, it was the only fuse in that particular design.

He swore they labeled it that way because they were made for the American market.

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or they simply gave no... well... you know.

Zero will be given to the US Market according to the article.

SOA also decided that we don’t get the Levorg (WRX wagon). USDM is Subaru’s biggest market in the world and they continually screw us.

For a very brief period of time my Department’s “guiding principles” were:

Courage
Leadership
Integrity
Teamwork
Service

A dive shop I helped teach at had an ambitious younger guy helping the owner. He wanted to rebrand everything. Made new logos and all. One day he came up with a new statement to use. "Diving Is Easy"

Someone had to point out that:

Diving
Is
Easy