Am I wrong to want an Impreza?

iaind said:
The VXR and the ST both have the sleeper factor too - a scooby with a big wing and bucket exhaust attracts the wrong kind of attention IMO.

Depends what sort of attention you want though, if any!
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Really ? I drive a black impreza with big wing and tints and i dont get the wrong type of attention :confused: It gets very good feedback and i find it gets a lot more looks than my VX220 turbo :)

The impreza is an awesome car, Rain or shine track or bumpy back road it does it all so well .... Ive owned a few decent cars and this really is the best of the lot

Oh and that noise :eek::D
 
My parents have had 2 wrxs, a 2.0 and a 2.5 litre model.

18mpg in normal driving?? Get on, high 20s when driving normally, mid to low round town, less when booting it obviously. low 30s has been seen but driving like a granny at the time. The average on the car after 30k was worked out to be about 27 mpg I think.

Both cars owned from new and both for 30k, only things that needed doing in that time was a service or 2 and a new set of tyres. And to be honest it was only 2 new ones needed on both cars, I know you're supposed to do all 4 or something on these but when handing your lease car back in a month or 2 you're not going to bother are you :)

Pads were on their way out by then as well.

As for the STI, yes it's a lot quicker but when other cars he's looking at are a CTR or ST220 then the WRX fits in there nicely.

Nothing wrong with the WRX imho, if you just want something fun and reasonably quick they are good, and with ppp even better.

I would recommend going for one of the revised 05 models that had the STi type of suspension or something, supposed to be a bit better.

Still seriously thinking about chopping the Clio for one soon.
 
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I didnt mean they were bad cars, not my any stretch of the imagination.

They are however the type of thing that will get every barry boy in a saxo trying to race you. As you say, they'll also get a lot of people looking - where some people want to be a bit more anonymous :)
 
schizo220168 said:
4th one for me.

look's a good price for low mileage and extra's on the car.

get what you want m8.

im sure you have worked out the running cost's yourself and feel you can run a scooby.

good luck in your choice as im sure you will be happy with what ever you buy.

ps....but make it a scooby.
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trouble is WRXs look fast on paper due to 4wheel drive

the 0-100 time levels just how fast this car is. Ive timed mine using dynolicious at 0-100 in 12.5 seconds

Impreza WRX needs 18 seconds despite an apparently similar 0-60 time.

If you're going to have something that drinks like an impreza. At least make sure it goes like one.
 
If you're going to have something that drinks like an impreza. At least make sure it goes like one.



sound's good to me.
 
You dont want a WRX, the spoiler alone is pure pure fail ....

I get around 200 miles to a full tank of juice and thats work and back, if i sat on the motorway i can get 260 / 270 and if im driving it hard round the ring im getting 14 miles to quarter of a tank ;)

It all depends on how heavy your right foot is
 
lol @ 200 miles to a full tank

i average 270 miles to tank just pootling about to and from work in my 2.8 V6 Turbo

Scoobys drink like george best.

Fact ;)
 
oh you dont have to tell me mate :) Im on first name terms with the staff at my local tesco :p
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
0-100 in 12.5, is this before during or after leaving 11s up the road? :D
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During :D

Heres the run

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0-10 mph 1.01 seconds
0-20 mph 1.89 seconds
0-30 mph 2.99 seconds
0-40 mph 3.92 seconds
0-50 mph 5.01 seconds
0-60 mph 6.17 seconds
0-70 mph 7.40 seconds
0-80 mph 9.16 seconds
0-90 mph 10.75 seconds
0-100 mph 12.53 seconds

given that book time is 6.1 seconds for the 0-60, ive go no reason to disbelieve the results. I was a bit sceptical at first, but others on here have assured me they've had equally accurate results.
 
This is something that confuses me a bit - fuel economy when pootling/on a motorway cruite etc (sorry for taking the thread off on a tangent)

My limited mechanical understanding sees it like this. You have a fixed mass to be moving which requires a certain amount of energy. With a bigger capacity engine with more cylinders etc I can understand that more fuel needs to be injected.

But why is it you can have one mid sized saloon with a 4 pot petrol engine (say a scooby) and another similar sized saloon with the same sized engine (insert any bog standard saloon here). The 2 could have the same bore and stroke figures. Assuming the drag coefficient is the same and the gearing is the same, why would something like the scooby only achieve 20mpg when a bog standard saloon might do 40mpg? Where does all the fuel go?

Its always confused me a bit...
 
How could you possibly think 550miles to a tank is bad?

WRX's are not that slow though btw MrLOL. I took mine down the strip with only exhaust mods, in a 13.2 @ 102. So under 13s to 100.. just depends how hard you want to drive them. The bugeye as standard was about 17 to 100mph though, according to road tests. I would buy a WRX, if it was PPP'd and Prodrive spring'd. Would make for an excellent road car. Or standard.. if I intended to mod it (inevitable) :D
 
iaind said:
This is something that confuses me a bit - fuel economy when pootling/on a motorway cruite etc (sorry for taking the thread off on a tangent)

My limited mechanical understanding sees it like this. You have a fixed mass to be moving which requires a certain amount of energy. With a bigger capacity engine with more cylinders etc I can understand that more fuel needs to be injected.

But why is it you can have one mid sized saloon with a 4 pot petrol engine (say a scooby) and another similar sized saloon with the same sized engine (insert any bog standard saloon here). The 2 could have the same bore and stroke figures. Assuming the drag coefficient is the same and the gearing is the same, why would something like the scooby only achieve 20mpg when a bog standard saloon might do 40mpg? Where does all the fuel go?

Its always confused me a bit...
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Because the scooby has AWD firstly, and secondly, there's a turbo sapping up the air, making the engine want more fuel.
 
iaind said:
This is something that confuses me a bit - fuel economy when pootling/on a motorway cruite etc (sorry for taking the thread off on a tangent)

My limited mechanical understanding sees it like this. You have a fixed mass to be moving which requires a certain amount of energy. With a bigger capacity engine with more cylinders etc I can understand that more fuel needs to be injected.

But why is it you can have one mid sized saloon with a 4 pot petrol engine (say a scooby) and another similar sized saloon with the same sized engine (insert any bog standard saloon here). The 2 could have the same bore and stroke figures. Assuming the drag coefficient is the same and the gearing is the same, why would something like the scooby only achieve 20mpg when a bog standard saloon might do 40mpg? Where does all the fuel go?

Its always confused me a bit...
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It's the AWD system, and the low gearing in a suby that does it.
 
Both true...not picking on scoobies or anything, the same is true for all highly tuned cars.

I think I'm just oversimplifying it in my mind, in that energy cant be created or destroyed, so the energy in (the petrol) has to equal the energy out. After the energy required to keep the car moving, the only differentiating factors are due to inefficiencies in the system which have to also manifest themselves as other forms of energy. Some are obvious, heat, noise etc but it just doesnt seem like it adds up to a 50% difference.
 
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