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Old 26 June 2015, 03:43 PM
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Hi There,

I've been lurking on here for quite a while until i got the opportunity to sort myself out with a car I've been looking at for about 7 years now all tolled.


Finally, i picked up the fine specimen below from Torque GT a couple of weeks ago with 42,000 miles on the clock, Wedsport wheels and nigh on stock otherwise.

Ideal.




It looks like there's a forester movement going on at the moment in Wales with the amount of threads popping up, so I'm hoping it will be in good company.

I'm in Deepest Darkest Mid Wales, about 15-20 mins from the Elan Valley, and will hopefully be making an appearance at one of the monthly meets in the near future.

There will be more pics up soon-ish when i get round to cleaning all the summer flies off the front.


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Old 26 June 2015, 07:07 PM
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Hi Chris, welcome along to the Welsh section of ScoobyNet. Looks like you've bagged yourself a nice fozzy there. As you've no doubt seen there's a few members in this section who own them and very happy. I'm sure Ty (Cannon Fodder) will be along soon. Enjoy your new car
Old 26 June 2015, 07:28 PM
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Nice car and enjoy!
It seems a popular car in Wales now!
Old 26 June 2015, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by fpan
Nice car and enjoy!
It seems a popular car in Wales now!
They come into their own for transporting sheep.
Old 26 June 2015, 07:53 PM
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I'm very happy with mine, I think they've got all the advantages of an Impreza without any other of the disadvantages.

If you've read my thread you'll see how much they benefit from a remap and a few choice modifications such as a sports cat, uprated panel air filter and a uprated fuel pump.

I do like the crystal grey colour, but of course white is the faster colour.

Enjoy the car, I think they're fantastic and very underrated.
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I love the wheels as well, very well suited to the car and have got me thinking.
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Thanks people.

It was between a Forester or a Mitsi (sorry) evo wagon, but having a massive strut brace across the boot didn't make a lot of sense to me with the stuff i've lugged round in previous cars (glanza and colt ralliart).

I've been following your thread Ty, had a look at that same Forester but didn't have the funds at the time.

Wheels were a big plus for me as i like jap wheels and they aren't the copy-paste Rays that seem to appear on everything now, or rota clones of them.

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Old 26 June 2015, 10:27 PM
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Good looking fozzy,... have fun...
Old 27 June 2015, 10:07 AM
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Very nice, 2nd best colour to WR blue

Get yourself over to http://www.subaruforester.org/vbulletin/f75/
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Very nice but then I would say that.

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It would appear the Fozza are taking over
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Lovely i bought mine from Torque gt .My wr blue looks great but its hard work to keep nice .Yes it does apear Fozzy taking over i was lonely once he he
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Thats 4 in the welsh section now.

I'm sure other will see the light and convert.
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Can people stop posting bloody Foggy STi pictures. It's twisting my melon
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Can people stop posting bloody Foggy STi pictures. It's twisting my melon
Torque GT have another 3 beauties instock
Old 28 June 2015, 10:12 PM
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Please leave me alone.
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Come to the dark side Trooper, we have boot space and cookies
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Originally Posted by Yeti-AWD
Come to the dark side Trooper, we have boot space and cookies
He's had one before in WR blue, it was a nice car as well.

Not that he regrets selling it or anything like that...
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH You are not my father!"
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Poor Ian .hell be back in one i bet
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH You are not my father!"
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This thread needed a white car for contrast.
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Tis' better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.
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when you say lost, do you mean you forgot which castle you parked it by?
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when you say lost, do you mean you forgot which castle you parked it by?
Llanthony Abbey. The only thing I forgot was my senses.
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Since this is turning into a "Show us your FSTi" thread, I thought of chipping in





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Anyone got any other colours to add to the thread? Black seems uncommon.
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Black was only available in facelifts as a friend found out recently, another very rare colour is the dark metallic grey, also only available in facelifts.
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Ah, that would explain it.

They did have a black facelift model down at Torque-GT when i picked mine up
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White is of course the best colour available.
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Originally Posted by Cannon Fodder
White is of course the best colour available.
I do like whites I must admit especially in the pre-facelift version
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You can get black SF Chassis Foresters but they are not as good IMHO.



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