Beginning of the end for imprezas
27 July 2010, 06:17 PM
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Sorry but the classic Impreza started as a cult car, it's ugly looks and performance were at odds with the traditional "farmers" tool...
I paid £21,000 for mine in '97, and believe me very few were "chav'd" at that price, also a nice new V6 Type-R retailed here as an import at £27,000.
I loved mine, but sadly it's just a modern XR2 now, a few tidy projects do not make up for the ( generalisation) shaven headed, angry little men who thrash them round their council estate near where I work...
Sorry !
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I paid £21,000 for mine in '97, and believe me very few were "chav'd" at that price, also a nice new V6 Type-R retailed here as an import at £27,000.
I loved mine, but sadly it's just a modern XR2 now, a few tidy projects do not make up for the ( generalisation) shaven headed, angry little men who thrash them round their council estate near where I work...
Sorry !
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30 July 2010, 06:18 PM
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...... along with all the vauxhalls, vw's, beemers and fords..... and just about everything else that gets chav'd. I'd still have the chimpreza anyway.
Impreza world defo looking up with CS and saloon in bound.
Had my first one back in 00, when the chavs drove yellow STI imports
but at least they were few.
Just chopped my '55 impreza wrx wagon for a diesel legacy , so for me, the brand and image is fine.
Impreza world defo looking up with CS and saloon in bound.
Had my first one back in 00, when the chavs drove yellow STI imports
but at least they were few.Just chopped my '55 impreza wrx wagon for a diesel legacy , so for me, the brand and image is fine.
30 July 2010, 10:00 PM
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Maybe it depends where you live.
I can honestly say where i am 5% or less (probably a lot less) of the Impreza's i see are even slightly 'chav'.
Maybe it differs accross the contry, but there is no problem with the Subaru image around this way.
I'd say it is the Honda's (especially Preludes and CRX's) that are the current ones with image problems.
I can honestly say where i am 5% or less (probably a lot less) of the Impreza's i see are even slightly 'chav'.
Maybe it differs accross the contry, but there is no problem with the Subaru image around this way.
I'd say it is the Honda's (especially Preludes and CRX's) that are the current ones with image problems.
30 July 2010, 10:11 PM
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Agreed Moley!
Used to have a "malachite green" 2.2 Vtec Prelude. Great car! So sad to see them with absurd bodykits with purple paint jobs!
Less said about some of the Civics the better!
Andy
Used to have a "malachite green" 2.2 Vtec Prelude. Great car! So sad to see them with absurd bodykits with purple paint jobs!
Less said about some of the Civics the better!
Andy
12 August 2010, 10:58 AM
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This happens to me all the time, I buy a car then 3/4 weeks later I'm on the owners site and everyone says my cars for chavs now 
O well I must be a chav
And as for the insurance price, if I told you what I'm paying you'd all laugh me off the site, its worth every penny tho !
O well I must be a chav
And as for the insurance price, if I told you what I'm paying you'd all laugh me off the site, its worth every penny tho !
12 August 2010, 11:09 AM
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Re: The title, it's only a good thing if the "unpleasant" end of the ownership spectrum are pushed into bankruptcy...
Moley managed to reduce mine by £150 this year, and that's with an even bigger turbo going on, and making yet more power and torque...
Cheers, Moley you are a star !
dunx
Moley managed to reduce mine by £150 this year, and that's with an even bigger turbo going on, and making yet more power and torque...
Cheers, Moley you are a star !
dunx
12 August 2010, 11:14 AM
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Age def helps with prices, especially if you have a UK car rather than import. My dad turned 50 the other year and thought he'd try Saga insurance. He now pays about £230 full comp on his Impreza wagon, jammy bu&&er. downside though, he's old
12 August 2010, 11:34 AM
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Ended my Subaru ownership a couple month ago and not regretting it (yet). Mk5 Golf Gti, fully loaded and the insurance was £190 (and I then got £70 cash back from that via Quidco) - so only £120 for the year (fully comp, protected no-claims and business use). Also averaging 38mpg.
Still love the Subaru marque and after my bugeye was looking at getting a blobeye with the revised interior - but when I looked a number the interior just felt so plasticy - the silver effect dash was worse (in my eyes) to the black plastic one in my bugeye.
Still love the Subaru marque and after my bugeye was looking at getting a blobeye with the revised interior - but when I looked a number the interior just felt so plasticy - the silver effect dash was worse (in my eyes) to the black plastic one in my bugeye.
12 August 2010, 12:21 PM
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Ended my Subaru ownership a couple month ago and not regretting it (yet). Mk5 Golf Gti, fully loaded and the insurance was £190 (and I then got £70 cash back from that via Quidco) - so only £120 for the year (fully comp, protected no-claims and business use). Also averaging 38mpg.
Still love the Subaru marque and after my bugeye was looking at getting a blobeye with the revised interior - but when I looked a number the interior just felt so plasticy - the silver effect dash was worse (in my eyes) to the black plastic one in my bugeye.
Still love the Subaru marque and after my bugeye was looking at getting a blobeye with the revised interior - but when I looked a number the interior just felt so plasticy - the silver effect dash was worse (in my eyes) to the black plastic one in my bugeye.
You had a remapped STi before didn't you?
Does your 38mpg on the GTi include much town driving?
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12 August 2010, 12:51 PM
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WRX but running 310bhp.
The 38 is mostly motorway miles with some town driving. Being very careful on the motorway can top 40mpg.
Where I really feel the power difference is when coming down a slip road - the golf runs out of puff pretty quickly - whilst the Scooby just kept pulling and pulling.
I'm going to avoid doing much modification work on the Golf but tempted to get a simple stage 1 remap. You can buy second hand Bluefin units for only £250 (plug in, downloads your current map to the handset, that then gets sent to Superchips, they send you back a remap, which you then upload. Superchips are VW Racing's tuning partner). Gives another 40bhp - which seems decent value.
12 August 2010, 08:38 PM
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Lets face it the Scooby is a cult car,old or new it is the way it is put together makes it great,and what you can do to it also great,been a Ford man all my life,when I bought the Bugeye sti Wagon everything else was just flat,ps dont find pretty bits inside a race car and that is what a Impreza Turbo is,if you needed leather and a walnut dash then buy a Vantage but you would need another 75k.Value for money Subaru have it all,£2k Classic today will buy a lot of car!!!! we seem to forget that.
12 August 2010, 09:04 PM
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we dont but imprezas for
economy
cheap tax
cheap insurance
we buy them cos they different too all the jelly moulds driving round with there unispiring looks and drab performance
we buy em cos everytime you turn the key it starts and you know you going enjoy your trip too wherever it is
we buy cos secretly we know people will look whenever they here the burble
we buy em cos we know people will look at the wing and scoop
most of all
we buy em cos we love em!!!
economy
cheap tax
cheap insurance
we buy them cos they different too all the jelly moulds driving round with there unispiring looks and drab performance
we buy em cos everytime you turn the key it starts and you know you going enjoy your trip too wherever it is
we buy cos secretly we know people will look whenever they here the burble
we buy em cos we know people will look at the wing and scoop
most of all
we buy em cos we love em!!!
12 August 2010, 09:27 PM
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we dont but imprezas for
economy
cheap tax
cheap insurance
we buy them cos they different too all the jelly moulds driving round with there unispiring looks and drab performance
we buy em cos everytime you turn the key it starts and you know you going enjoy your trip too wherever it is
we buy cos secretly we know people will look whenever they here the burble
we buy em cos we know people will look at the wing and scoop
most of all
we buy em cos we love em!!!
economy
cheap tax
cheap insurance
we buy them cos they different too all the jelly moulds driving round with there unispiring looks and drab performance
we buy em cos everytime you turn the key it starts and you know you going enjoy your trip too wherever it is
we buy cos secretly we know people will look whenever they here the burble
we buy em cos we know people will look at the wing and scoop
most of all
we buy em cos we love em!!!
13 August 2010, 09:24 PM
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Excellent post by djwrx
Five years and most of the classics will be in the scrapyards
Some of the chavs will have bugeyes but will dread car tax time so loads of uninsured and untaxed scoobys on the roads
The few purists will still be around and there will be serious money spent on refurbisments and rebuilds
By the time we get to NBO 15 I predict no more then 160 will atend and chavs will be no longer
Just a collection of 40-65 year old men with grey hair and balding and sticky our bellies
Five years and most of the classics will be in the scrapyards
Some of the chavs will have bugeyes but will dread car tax time so loads of uninsured and untaxed scoobys on the roads
The few purists will still be around and there will be serious money spent on refurbisments and rebuilds
By the time we get to NBO 15 I predict no more then 160 will atend and chavs will be no longer
Just a collection of 40-65 year old men with grey hair and balding and sticky our bellies
14 August 2010, 12:08 AM
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Excellent post by djwrx
Five years and most of the classics will be in the scrapyards
Some of the chavs will have bugeyes but will dread car tax time so loads of uninsured and untaxed scoobys on the roads
The few purists will still be around and there will be serious money spent on refurbisments and rebuilds
By the time we get to NBO 15 I predict no more then 160 will atend and chavs will be no longer
Just a collection of 40-65 year old men with grey hair and balding and sticky our bellies
Five years and most of the classics will be in the scrapyards
Some of the chavs will have bugeyes but will dread car tax time so loads of uninsured and untaxed scoobys on the roads
The few purists will still be around and there will be serious money spent on refurbisments and rebuilds
By the time we get to NBO 15 I predict no more then 160 will atend and chavs will be no longer
Just a collection of 40-65 year old men with grey hair and balding and sticky our bellies
14 August 2010, 07:22 AM
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We will go the same as RS clubs
The classics will be used less and less and some might atend shows on trailers as you won't want to drive 15-20 year old cars on a daily basis
The scooby specialists will survive if they venture out into bodywork repairs and renovations and someone will become rich if they can produce replacement rear arches for the rusty ones just under the fuel flap
The classics will be used less and less and some might atend shows on trailers as you won't want to drive 15-20 year old cars on a daily basis
The scooby specialists will survive if they venture out into bodywork repairs and renovations and someone will become rich if they can produce replacement rear arches for the rusty ones just under the fuel flap
15 August 2010, 04:50 PM
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Most classics seem to be getting broken for parts or are rusting away. The only ones that will be left soon will be the modded ones that have had most of their original parts replaced. Will be interesting to see what happens to post 06 cars sat in the highest tax bracket as can't see people paying £400+ car tax when their cars are only worth a few £k.
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15 August 2010, 05:35 PM
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Yes the few classics left will retain their values once they drop to £1500- £2000 price point the rest will be scrapped
The bug eye /blobs will continue to depreciate heavily as they get older due to high car tax and of course the chavs will stop spending once petrol hits £6 a gallon
Ten years time the only subarus left will only be used for shows or track days
The chavs will move onto some of the excellent diesel cars out there and will drive through halfords and put all sorts of garbage on them to make them look cool
The bug eye /blobs will continue to depreciate heavily as they get older due to high car tax and of course the chavs will stop spending once petrol hits £6 a gallon
Ten years time the only subarus left will only be used for shows or track days
The chavs will move onto some of the excellent diesel cars out there and will drive through halfords and put all sorts of garbage on them to make them look cool
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