Trade-up or Tune-up?

i still personally think you should hang on a bit, i know you're older than most new drivers but you've still not even got 12 months of experience under your belt and looking to get a 320+ bhp limited edition scooby! But you know my feelings on this from MSN....

if you HAVE to do something at least the scooby is easy to drive compared to other suggestions made like an m3.
 
Gaygle said:
Is an M3 hard to drive?
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With less than 1 year of driving experience he will probably end up in a ditch. They're not hard to drive normally but when the temptation takes over or when he pushes just that little bit too far, with a complete lack of experience, his chances of recovering it are quite low. I have been driving for 6 years and when I first moved to RWD I was still caught out when pushign it a few times although I reckon I now have the experience to be able to handle thouse situations. When I had 10 months of driving experience? Not a chance.
 
The RB320 is a awesome piece of kit....and rather major step up.....but so would a STI PPP

I driving a STI Hawkeye (same shape as the rb320) and you would not regret it :)
 
dthebuk said:
Have you taken running costs into account? A decent power scoobies gunna be pretty expensive to run
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I get 24mpg out of mine most of the time..can get 26mpg....

10k service interval - I paid £400 for a 50K service which includes a cambelt change - that dealer price

Insurance group 20.. it an impreza so will cost a bit to insure and it will be £450 year tax......

Parts

£130 for mintex front pads fitted at a specialist
£100 for mintex rear pads again fitted at a specialist

Expensive car to run...yep....
Expensive perfromace car to run.....nope..0-60 about 5.2 280BHP for STI...320Bhp for the RB......around 300BHP with ppp pack

Here mine......not got many pics of it.....have to take some better ones when it clean..lol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27959675@N06/3043663882
 
Scuzi said:
With less than 1 year of driving experience he will probably end up in a ditch. They're not hard to drive normally but when the temptation takes over or when he pushes just that little bit too far, with a complete lack of experience, his chances of recovering it are quite low. I have been driving for 6 years and when I first moved to RWD I was still caught out when pushign it a few times although I reckon I now have the experience to be able to handle thouse situations. When I had 10 months of driving experience? Not a chance.
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Care to explain about how to drive a RWD? :)
 
triggerthat said:
Care to explain about how to drive a RWD? :)
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Don't plant your foot on the accelerator in the middle of a corner...unless you can point the car forward again once you've been sideways:p

Generally speaking, RWD cars tend to oversteer especially when fiddling with the throttle in corners. FWD cars generally tend to understeer. Understeer is generally much easier to correct than oversteer, especially for an inexperienced driver and especially in a car with 300bhp+.

Lots of "generally" in there as there will always be an exception to the rule.

In all the FWD cars I had, when I cocked up (inevitably, it happens to everyone) I found it much easier to correct the error and keep the car between the hedges. After 9 months of driving my first ever powerful RWD car, I have found that when the boundaries are pushed, it will bite much harder and is much more difficult to correct properly. It has certainly taught me a hell of a lot about balancing a car and more importantly, respecting it!

No doubt the ace drivers in here will preach that climbing into a 340bhp RWD car with less than a years driving experience will be perfectly fine as long as you are careful. This is probably true but as long as a petrolhead with a pair of balls pumping out testosterone is sitting behind the wheel, being careful isn't always on the agenda :p
 
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