That's true Tim ... I have seen it - still standard too!
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NOT!!!!

I didn't realise you had it since new!

I do like the Random Coloured Light Generator you have on the dash though

 

5 years last dec 15th
money spent
4 kyb shocks 285.00
front mount 200.00
2drive shafts 40.00 s/h
discs 155.00
pads 128.00 all 4
pads again frnt 60.00
3 cambelts 40.00 each
tensioner 59.00
full de cat 150.00 s/h
open mouth d/pipe 80.00 s/h
chip 55.00
end result 289bhp 287nm by far the cheapest car to keep on the road ive ever had 80500 miles when bought now done 148000 and still puts a smile on my face every day apart from when at petrol station lol

 

£40 for a Cambelt? I thought they were much more than that!?

As an aside, and I'm guessing, but I think my car cost £21,660? 10 years ago ..... I would hesitate to pay that NOW for a new car!!

 

PTMW! was just over 5 years from new before I sold then I had what turned into the Pink/Purple one for 2 and a half years...

Miss 'em both

 

Beat this: owned mine FROM NEW in Sept 1998!Currently away having the engine rebuilt.
Current mileage is around 84,000.

 

Engine rebuild at 84,000 miles???

You sure it's still standard??

 

39.50 for a gates belt from local engine rebuilder

 

That's a good price, for some reason I thought they were around £80!

 

reddish blue my 98 classic 2004>2007
silver my98 classic 2008>present

so 5 ish years

 

5 months with my 97 classic....
should have got one years ago as so much fun.never spent so much time in petrol stations though!!!

 

Ordered Sept 1996, delivered Aug 1 1997. Owned from new, one careful owner.
Still own to this day.
Andy

 

Thats exactly the way mine will go. Been running it from new for 3.5 years so far, another 18 months and then I think I will garage it and use it weekends etc and get some german runabout. Dont think i'll ever sell it TBH.

 

Owned mine for nearly one year, bought it in march 09 1 week after owning it the bottom end went Got another engine put in it shortly after and love it (its cost me a bloody fortune, but its ace) I just use it mainly at weekends.

 

Andy, you just beat me in terms of ownership but mine is older, mine was registered in June 1993 and I've owned it since November 1997, 134,000+ miles on the clock but it's been off the road for the last year.

windyboy

 

Off the road dont count! LOL

 

il of had my 1998 t2000 for 4 years next saturday . its my birthday that day too. . . . . and i have to renew insurance.

 

i'm with you on that one Pete, god i'd be rich if i hadn't discovered Imprezas
but then we were younger then so it didn't really matter. well, i was younger, you were still old even back then.

apparently

scooby owner for 12 years

98-00 Series McRae
00-06 MY99 Turbo 2000
06- now current UK sti

bit bored now, maybe 2010 is the year of the EVO?

 

Tim did, date dependant.

 

Mine is a MY98 had it 10 years this year
Cheers
Colin

 

I remember those days of 12 month waiting lists and depreciation was unheard of in Impreza Turbos!!!

Look how things have changed - new Impreza for £17,999 - delivered tomorrow - worth £7,999 in 12 months down the line!

 

Had my MY05 STi for 4 years in March, 475/460 so not exactly standard!!

 

Will have had my car 6 years in August and hopefully have cracked the 500bhp barrier by then

Banny

 

two n a half weeks, 1996 sti v-limited. first scoob. done santapod last sunday and got a grand of bits arriving lol. love it

 

Had my Wagon 8 years, was my daily drive until approx 18 months ago.

 

August '97 Catalunya No. 141 for £21,600 sold back to the dealer in Dec. 2001 for 65% of the original cost.... at over four years old.
1st March 02, Prodrive bug-eye collected, and mod'd and never likely to go, unless vandalised by one of the less talented on the road around me.....

dunx

 

I remember those days well. Bought my first Impreza in 1996 (only a 6 week wait as well), cost just over £18K. Sold it in early 1999 (while my STI5 was on the boat from Japan) with nearly 50K on the clock and a couple of months warranty left, for ... £14.5K. Cheapest car per mile I've ever owned, even with the fuel consumption.

The guy who bought it was on the waiting list for a new UK model, he drove it for the 9 months or so he was waiting and traded it in against the new one.

 

Managed to get one of the last unregistered classics in 2001 for £19,750.
After almost 9 years of ownership she's got 47k on the clock and she still gives me a ever time.

 

Choose my 1995 WRX from a Jap auction site Christmas 2003, had to wait until May 2004 before I could take delivery of it (did have a hoon around Southampton docks in April though!!) Still got it now with 115,000 miles on the clock and its been through many stages of mods but settled on 303bhp / 290 ft/lbs about a year ago. Gearbox is getting a bit tired and notchy but nothing a six speed conversion wouldn't sort out

 

Got my greenwagon brand new in June 2000 and has 56 k
on the clock now always been my fun & weekend car and
lives in it's nice warm garage
got my 09 wrxd last June and use that as my everyday car
the classic will stop with me forever probably worth less then 3 k
now so not worth selling my only worry would be if the engine went
pop and would it be worth spending 2 k on it but probably would
I spend more time cleaning it then driving it now

 

Definiteley NOT standard, but owned it since 23rd September 1998, it was ordered late the previous Febrauary.