Firstly, hope it was no one off here. Secondly, hope the occupants were ok. Thirdly, as most of us Impreza drivers know, you can't beat the laws of physics despite AWD.

I wonder if this is a result of the "new market" and the "new customers" not realising that when Imprezas bite, they bite hard.

Shame.

When the Subaglue runs out...

 

quite a few styling improvements though.....

Dan

 

wonder if its still there could go get some parts of it and stick them on ebay

 

Subaglue, like it - if it was an evo would they say when the evo (doesn't) stick

 

always a shame to see a nice impreza smashed up like that

 

Noticed the 57 plate. MY08 STi UK Spec first reg was 1st March 08.

Shame.

 

Id say road conditions probably caused that, black ice and a awd car has as much chance as a fwd or rwd car, ie virtually zero

Tony

 

Poss a JDM car.

Mac

 

Yes, of course, OMG it's inconceivable that a Subaru owner could possibly have made a driving error and crashed!

I disagree, unless there's another vehicle/person/animal etc involved, a crash like this is down to the driver not driving to suit the condtions, pure and simple.

 

Spotted a black 57plate myo8 sti on the m42 a few weeks back some reckon on it being one of litchfields jdm's

 

You'd better go and tell the guys in this & this thread that then!

 

Things like black ice are called black ice for a reason let you figure it out though, pretty hard to see really....

Tony

 

All the press cars were registered on 57 plates - there are plenty of them around. At the launch of them, there were about 15 57 plated cars - and I'm sure there were many others around, so it could have been a press car gone off, or indeed one that was sold into the dealer network.

 

it is obviously cold hence the snow ,so the road must have been slippy or whoever was driving pushed it to far lol

 

Such a shame.

Looks like a UK car to me though (the dealer i went to see had their demo on 57 too):

UK Wheels
UK Foglight Triangle in rear cluster
Cant see that well, but also looks like it has the Type UK Logo that they have in the rear quarter window.

Either way, its a shame.. without knowing the situation, im hesitent to pass judgement personally.. i just hope everyone is ok.

 

the sooner you guys realise summer tyres are **** on snow the better! We get the same threads year in year out and still you argue the toss that you don't get bad enough weather to justify them!! Oh well they are your cars so why should I even be bothered? That guy from ESC would still have his car if he had the right tyres on it for the conditions.

 

Spot on Steve, but unfortunately most people in the UK can't seem to understand the difference between summer tyres, winter tyres (M+S) and snow tyres!

Still, if people are willing to fork out 25K for a car but not £500 to look after it, that's their problem. Although in reality winter tyres don't cost any extra as you're not wearing out your summer tyres while driving on the winters!

 

One less of those things on the road, thank God!

Thank God for car safety too!

 

70 mph when there's deep snow coming up and the car skids out of control = driver error. I rest my case.

 

I wouldn't dream of buying winter tyres and my Elise has some daft Yokohama summer tyres on them. At the time of writing, i've driven through, loads of standing water, ice, black ice and snow. Drive to the conditions and things "should" be fine. Why won't i fit winter tyres? - too lazy to swap them

 

As a representative of Subaru (UK) Ltd, I would like to assure you that the crash was not the result of poor performance on the part of the vehicle. The matter is being thoroughly investigated by our insurers, but suffice to say a young journalist was road-testing a press car rather late at night. Sadly our road-side assistance team weren't called until the following morning. I'm relieved to report that the driver was not hurt.

 

Blimey .... s u uu u u ubaru uk .... slow day at work ??

 

Rather the opposite!

I work for the Press Office and have been asked by our MD to post a reply here.

 

he just wants to get his post count up

2 posts in 14 minutes isn't going to make you a post ***** very quickly though

how long do you reckon it will take a moderator to come and infract him for having advertising as his login name???

I remember when Kirsty from SWRT did the same thing, her post was deleted in seconds.

 

I can't believe someone has an accident in a car and it generates so much interest, oh no I've just entered the debate myself, aarrgghh.

 

Well its good to know that Subaru actually take the time to read our comments perhaps if they reflect on some, the cars may continue to improve.

 

Would like to read that journo's report! Wonder if he will be coming clean on his lack of driving skills or giving the car a bad review!

 

I've just been killing myself laughing at that for the last 10 minutes...

 

If the accident is under investigation, how have you managed to conclude that?
While you're here, do the bigwigs at Subaru actually take on board any of the comments made on Scoobynet? If they do - i 'm sure that sales of the new Impreza would greatly improve if they brought a Saloon version to the UK

 

Look man, there won't be a saloon version coming to the UK.
Now, the sooner people accept that the better.
In my opinion, if you really don't like it then go buy something else you do like instead.