Subaru has released the floating top half of the new Ascent 3-row crossover

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In anticipation of its debut at the L.A. Auto Show, Subaru has released a teaser image of the new Ascent 3-row crossover. Sometimes when car companies do these shadowy teaser shots, a little shadow recovery can reveal the rest of the car. But Subaru fully blacked out the bottom half of the Ascent in this rendering.

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Here’s the original image from which I still was able to at least get some more detail of the top half of the Ascent.

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But no matter how much I crank up the shadow recovery into the land of extreme shadow recovery, there’s nothing there but pervasive, empty darkness.

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Subaru really wants to make us wait until later today when the whole car debuts, I guess.

I’m prepared to see loads of these running around here in Madison, just like every other Subaru model that’s not one of the fun ones.

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In the interest of full Subaru disclosure, this is my wife’s Impreza:

 

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