Subaru SVX
Why 8.0: Subaru built a Giorgetto Giugiaro concept almost unchanged, gave it the only flat-six it has ever put in a coupe, and then never offered a manual gearbox — which is why it is remembered as a strange grand tourer rather than a sports car. It reportedly lost money on every single one, and the survivors are used as intended.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The EG33 flat-six is a rare thing and thrums with a soft, distant boxer woofle no inline six matches. Subaru then buried it under grand-touring insulation and a four-speed automatic that upshifts before anything develops, so little of it reaches you.
6-cylinder · naturally aspirated · 6,000 rpm redline · rated 5.6 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €23k (1992) → €13k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Built before ISOFIX existed, so there are no anchor points at all. A child seat here is a seatbelt installation, and the belt geometry of the period was not designed with one in mind.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
The SVX is what happens when a company commits to a show car. Giugiaro's Italdesign proposal reached production with its defining oddity intact — the window-within-a-window canopy, where only a small panel of each side glass drops — and Subaru backed it with the EG33, a 3.3-litre flat-six making 230 hp, permanent four-wheel drive and a level of refinement nothing else in the range approached. Then came the decision that shaped its reputation: no manual gearbox was ever offered anywhere, only a four-speed automatic, and that alone kept it out of the conversation with the Supras and 300ZXs it should have fought. It was expensive, complicated and slow-selling, and Subaru is widely reported to have lost around three thousand dollars on each one before ending production in 1996. What that leaves is a car with no speculative interest at all, bought by people who specifically wanted the strangest Subaru ever made, and used as the long-distance grand tourer it always was. Values have only recently begun to move, and the failure-prone transmission keeps casual buyers away.