MrTom

Hi everyone, im Tom from West Yorkshire, im on the lookout for an impreza.

My funds range from £6500(finance) and £3500 cash price.

I have been searching a few weeks now but the range and variety of these cars range so much, it makes it hard to make a decision.

I have seen some decent blobeye wrx's(non sti) for around £5k, and some older shape typre r's for around 5k.

With my budget set in mind, what do you think is my best option? I am not very clued up on all imprezas, but my 1st choice would be a blobeye sti ppp and my 2nd choice would be a blobeye wrx ppp.

Would i be better off going for a blobeye sti with a max budget of 6.5k, or a mint older one?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Heres a few pics of my last three cars...

Stage 3 243bhp corsa vxr, bought in 2009 - sold in 2011...





Standard corsa vxr nurburgring 202 bhp, bought in 2011- sold in 2012...







Current car, clio 182, bought nov 2012...







This car is currently up for sale.

Any info would be great.

Nice forum by the way, regards... Tom

scooby_Paul

hey, welcome to the forum! im from west yorkshire also.. where bouts r u from? Personally id go for an sti.. if you buy a wrx u will only wish u had gone for the sti Paul

MrTom

Hi Paul, im near pontefract, i do really like the sti, im going to keep looking so im sure ill find a decent one sooner or later.

Where abouts are you from mate?

Fonzey

iTrader: (5)

You'll get a nice STI for 6500

The 2005' ones fetch a bit more cash due to the nicer interior, wide rear track and some other bits and bobs but an 03/04 sti should be within scope.

Good luck, probably see you around some time!

scooby_Paul

Im from Dewsbury near wakefield bud so not too far away

MrTom

Brilliant thanks mate

I have been looking on auto trader, pistonheads and ebay, and i am finding it hard to find one i like for around that price

Thanks for the welcome guys

MrTom

Brilliant, hopefully if i find a car that suits me, ill be on to some meets etc

Thanks again.

thenewgalaxy

Get an STi mate.

The WRX won't be much of a jump up in punch from a VXR, even if it'll eat it alive through bends.

£6500 is a good enough budget for an early Blobeye in good nick. You seem to be familiar with tuning having run a 240bhp VXR, you can make an STi very capable on quite a modest budget

MrTom

This sounds very promising, I think you have persuaded me to go for the sti, i think i would be disappointed if i didnt.

The vxr was pretty decent in a straight line, but my 182 would walk around it in the bends.

This time around i am wanting something with the straight line speed as well as the cornering capabilities, plus the sti's do look very nice.

Thanks again for the input.

jaygsi

iTrader: (46)

How did you find the corsa vxr nurburgring compared to stanard vxr?

MrTom

Night and day mate, the bilstein suspension works really well with the drexler lsd to make a very good handling car out of the box.

The standard one was lowered with a few other mods but it needed a diff, it used to understeer round every bend.

The burg edition felt more solid, it felt like a totally different car but the same car, it was weird.

The only let down was the exhaust tone, it was non existent, but i decided against tuning it as i didnt want to loose my 100k miles warranty.

If you are goint to get one, i would recommend the burg edition 1000% over the standard one.

LuckyWelshchap

Hello mate and welcome.

When you find one you're interested in put a link up. There's plenty on here who'll give it the once over and their opinion and any advice.

MrTom

Brilliant mate, thanks for the help, i will do

sivo

iTrader: (30)

Welcome to scoobynet mate.

If I were buying at the moment I would give this one a look.

https://www.scoobynet.com/subaru-444...-for-sale.html

Siv

LuckyWelshchap

+1
SN Member as well, so you could/should safely assume that the car's been looked after in current ownership (and anything wrong put right).

MrTom

Thanks guys ill take a look