Impreza ownership - when is enough enough?
30 March 2012, 12:29 PM
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been watching this thread last few days. mainly thinking, what performance car might be cheaper to run........
given the performance of a slightly modded Type R is there anything even close out there for similar money....
each to their own, me personally i love my thrills from cars or bikes
buy a diesel, grow old, die...
buy a scoob, grow old, smile lots, die...
ive also given thought about depreciation on a much newer car. been there ouch...
buy a nice P1 or Type R or RA...
given the performance of a slightly modded Type R is there anything even close out there for similar money....
each to their own, me personally i love my thrills from cars or bikes
buy a diesel, grow old, die...
buy a scoob, grow old, smile lots, die...
ive also given thought about depreciation on a much newer car. been there ouch...
buy a nice P1 or Type R or RA...
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30 March 2012, 12:58 PM
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30 March 2012, 06:40 PM
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Sitting @ 48.7 In the car park sInce filled up last
Resets at 10 k 44.7
20k 46.7
30k 47.9
I set the trip no1 every time I fill up
Seems to be Rough in winter with heaters etc 46 and I need a long run
Every month to get the average up as 300 miles per tank is short
Quick 10 mile fast blasts
PeoPle that know meal I deal in facts
As I keep all recipts etc as I'm sad that way
I even have nearly 12 years of my greenwagon receipts
Resets at 10 k 44.7
20k 46.7
30k 47.9
I set the trip no1 every time I fill up
Seems to be Rough in winter with heaters etc 46 and I need a long run
Every month to get the average up as 300 miles per tank is short
Quick 10 mile fast blasts
PeoPle that know meal I deal in facts
As I keep all recipts etc as I'm sad that way
I even have nearly 12 years of my greenwagon receipts
30 March 2012, 06:51 PM
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Have to say for me it was never a case of selling my subaru mainly due to the amount of money it had already cost me with the respray, wheels, turbo and several other upgrades but I did need to ease the day to day running costs as it was at that time my only car and being a 1998 it was getting on a bit and didnt want to keep upping the mileage.
I ended up buying another Focus ST that tbh isn't really costing me much less to run due to the modifications I've done to that but its a 57 plate so its a lot more reliable than the subaru and now the subaru only comes out on very sunny days when I'm not working which isn;t very often atm.
The wife now keeps on at me to sell it as it's stuck in the garage doing nothing as she puts it.
I ended up buying another Focus ST that tbh isn't really costing me much less to run due to the modifications I've done to that but its a 57 plate so its a lot more reliable than the subaru and now the subaru only comes out on very sunny days when I'm not working which isn;t very often atm.
The wife now keeps on at me to sell it as it's stuck in the garage doing nothing as she puts it.
30 March 2012, 06:57 PM
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Have to say for me it was never a case of selling my subaru mainly due to the amount of money it had already cost me with the respray, wheels, turbo and several other upgrades but I did need to ease the day to day running costs as it was at that time my only car and being a 1998 it was getting on a bit and didnt want to keep upping the mileage.
I ended up buying another Focus ST that tbh isn't really costing me much less to run due to the modifications I've done to that but its a 57 plate so its a lot more reliable than the subaru and now the subaru only comes out on very sunny days when I'm not working which isn;t very often atm.
The wife now keeps on at me to sell it as it's stuck in the garage doing nothing as she puts it.
I ended up buying another Focus ST that tbh isn't really costing me much less to run due to the modifications I've done to that but its a 57 plate so its a lot more reliable than the subaru and now the subaru only comes out on very sunny days when I'm not working which isn;t very often atm.
The wife now keeps on at me to sell it as it's stuck in the garage doing nothing as she puts it.
30 March 2012, 07:22 PM
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Sitting @ 48.7 In the car park sInce filled up last
Resets at 10 k 44.7
20k 46.7
30k 47.9
I set the trip no1 every time I fill up
Seems to be Rough in winter with heaters etc 46 and I need a long run
Every month to get the average up as 300 miles per tank is short
Quick 10 mile fast blasts
PeoPle that know meal I deal in facts
As I keep all recipts etc as I'm sad that way
I even have nearly 12 years of my greenwagon receipts
Resets at 10 k 44.7
20k 46.7
30k 47.9
I set the trip no1 every time I fill up
Seems to be Rough in winter with heaters etc 46 and I need a long run
Every month to get the average up as 300 miles per tank is short
Quick 10 mile fast blasts
PeoPle that know meal I deal in facts
As I keep all recipts etc as I'm sad that way
I even have nearly 12 years of my greenwagon receipts
30 March 2012, 07:59 PM
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Parkers guide quotes 27mpg!http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/review...ck-2007/38648/
What's the tax on that?
I had considered one of those but the figures on their site had put me off!
The Impreza diesel has a combined figure of around 48, so entirely plausible, on a run you should see over 50 mpg, but it doesn't touch an A3 1.9 diesel in which I can regularly achieve both 67mpg and suicidal tendancies
30 March 2012, 09:18 PM
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The problem with our Scoobies is the pumping losses. I wouldn't mind the way it drinks when I give it some if it didn't keep drinking when I drove like a Granny. Shame we can't disconnect the rear prop and lock the centre diff and maybe get them running on two cylinders at light loads. Even then they'd struggle to get decent mileage.
My trick is to use the Bike. I can get 40mpg from the VFR with little effort. mind you with a bit of effort I can get it down to 25mpg!!
My trick is to use the Bike. I can get 40mpg from the VFR with little effort. mind you with a bit of effort I can get it down to 25mpg!!
30 March 2012, 09:36 PM
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The problem with our Scoobies is the pumping losses. I wouldn't mind the way it drinks when I give it some if it didn't keep drinking when I drove like a Granny. Shame we can't disconnect the rear prop and lock the centre diff and maybe get them running on two cylinders at light loads. Even then they'd struggle to get decent mileage.
My trick is to use the Bike. I can get 40mpg from the VFR with little effort. mind you with a bit of effort I can get it down to 25mpg!!
My trick is to use the Bike. I can get 40mpg from the VFR with little effort. mind you with a bit of effort I can get it down to 25mpg!!
do porsche drivers moan, no
i wonder why not .. hmm
30 March 2012, 10:12 PM
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Suicidal tendencies ? Try passing something in an Audi A3 1.9 and you're exposed to oncoming traffic for such a length of time that it is suicidal. The trouble is that today's roads are filled with diesel drivers who think that they are in quick machines because they have a couple of hundred pounds feet of torque at 2000 rpm. The way that these cars have to be flogged in an attempt to improve their drab performance means that you can kiss bye bye to any manufacturer claimed economy figures.
30 March 2012, 11:41 PM
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Lordharding is quite a figurehead in the world of subarus, if hes says 48mpg iam sure thats what he gets althought that obviously wont be around the doors.
In short he has no reason to lie as to what his car does, wished mine did the same, iam closer to 15mpg
In short he has no reason to lie as to what his car does, wished mine did the same, iam closer to 15mpg
30 March 2012, 11:56 PM
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As i said, he must be the Charles Lindbergh of the motoring world.
31 March 2012, 12:10 AM
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iam busy getting my car up to 500hp, i dread to think what my mpg is gonna be, 8mpg here i come. But Lordharding runs the NBO which is a huge meet up north, i doubt he would inflate any figures simply for that reason, credabilty
31 March 2012, 03:56 AM
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Being such an **** statistical geek after 3 years of the greenwagon
Getting filled up with shell I averaged 225-230 per tank
I then swapped to tesco super and for the last 8 years 9 months
Have achieved 250 Per tank
I Once got 300 to the tank on the most boring drive to Chester
Sitting at 60 all the way
Sole destroying and not the way to drive a scooby
Interesting even after our lakes run with 130 miles of fun at the
Highest level still got 220 which shows you might as well have fun with it
I've just dOne 60000 In nearly 12 years with the greenwagon
And it gaves me far more pleasure then the 35 k in nearly
3 years with the wrxd although I love the look of the wrxd and
Great on the motorway
Decisions so hard in a morning economy and sole destroyin
Or fun and destroying the Planet
Getting filled up with shell I averaged 225-230 per tank
I then swapped to tesco super and for the last 8 years 9 months
Have achieved 250 Per tank
I Once got 300 to the tank on the most boring drive to Chester
Sitting at 60 all the way
Sole destroying and not the way to drive a scooby
Interesting even after our lakes run with 130 miles of fun at the
Highest level still got 220 which shows you might as well have fun with it
I've just dOne 60000 In nearly 12 years with the greenwagon
And it gaves me far more pleasure then the 35 k in nearly
3 years with the wrxd although I love the look of the wrxd and
Great on the motorway
Decisions so hard in a morning economy and sole destroyin
Or fun and destroying the Planet
31 March 2012, 12:50 PM
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Being such an **** statistical geek after 3 years of the greenwagon
Getting filled up with shell I averaged 225-230 per tank
I then swapped to tesco super and for the last 8 years 9 months
Have achieved 250 Per tank
I Once got 300 to the tank on the most boring drive to Chester
Sitting at 60 all the way
Sole destroying and not the way to drive a scooby
Interesting even after our lakes run with 130 miles of fun at the
Highest level still got 220 which shows you might as well have fun with it
I've just dOne 60000 In nearly 12 years with the greenwagon
And it gaves me far more pleasure then the 35 k in nearly
3 years with the wrxd although I love the look of the wrxd and
Great on the motorway
Getting filled up with shell I averaged 225-230 per tank
I then swapped to tesco super and for the last 8 years 9 months
Have achieved 250 Per tank
I Once got 300 to the tank on the most boring drive to Chester
Sitting at 60 all the way
Sole destroying and not the way to drive a scooby
Interesting even after our lakes run with 130 miles of fun at the
Highest level still got 220 which shows you might as well have fun with it
I've just dOne 60000 In nearly 12 years with the greenwagon
And it gaves me far more pleasure then the 35 k in nearly
3 years with the wrxd although I love the look of the wrxd and
Great on the motorway
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31 March 2012, 05:55 PM
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I have just sold my 123D M Sport coupe to buy a 2004 STI Blob and a Gold GT TDI.
Soon you will not be able to buy scoobies or anything like them, the Evo has gone so has anything else that runs on petrol and has similar performance.
I am keeping mine, they are a thing of the past and something I fear the future will not hold. Just fitted my BC coilovers today along with a pal who has done the same to his.
Petrol powered turbo cars make life fun on those days when a diesel simply will not do.
Can't wait for the next track day.
Soon you will not be able to buy scoobies or anything like them, the Evo has gone so has anything else that runs on petrol and has similar performance.
I am keeping mine, they are a thing of the past and something I fear the future will not hold. Just fitted my BC coilovers today along with a pal who has done the same to his.
Petrol powered turbo cars make life fun on those days when a diesel simply will not do.
Can't wait for the next track day.
31 March 2012, 06:58 PM
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I made a mistake 5yrs ago when i sold my last impreza i won't do it again RB320 purchased Nov 2011 nothing comes close yes they are expensive i agree but i've tried others nothing comes close
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