NEW YORK MOTOR SHOW: Subaru's next Rex leaks out

This is roughly what the next generation of Subaru’s WRX cult car will look like when it goes on sale in Australia as early as next March

Subaru has confirmed it will reveal a concept version of the next Rex at this week’s New York motor show, but renderings of the company’s all-new performance leader have leaked early via French website Blog Automobile.

The Japanese brand has not confirmed the authenticity of the images here, but motoring.com.au understands the images here are an accurate indication of next year’s all-new WRX, which will no longer wear an Impreza badge.

As the digital images reveal, the new WRX sedan will be a dramatic wedge-shaped four-door with bulging wheel-arches, a prominent shoulder line and heavily recessed doors with aggressive side skirt treatment.

At the front are aggressive new heavily eyebrowed headlights intersected by a triangular body-coloured elements surrounded almost completely by LED lamps, bookending an angular new grille.

Naturally, the WRX Concept car features an oversized bonnet scoop, huge 20-inch alloys framing yellow six-piston brake callipers and an enormous rear diffuser housing quad exhaust outlets.

Of course, no technical details have been revealed ahead of tomorrow’s official unveiling, but we understand reports of a hybrid powertrain are wide of the mark.

Expect the next Rex to be powered by a more powerful version of the new 2.0-litre turbocharged flat-four boxer engine seen in Subaru’s new Forester XT, which packs 177kW/350Nm, delivering around 225kW to all four wheels.

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