am i going to kill myself?

ShakenNstirred said:
lol for pose value
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He has that already with his non-turbo as they look very similar.

You only buy a car like this to drive it fast :p

I don't know really - on one hand, your age suggests it would be quick and insta-death, but on the other, you have experience of this type of car.

Don't kid yourself you'll plod around like Captain Slow though, thats not the point in an Impreza Turbo.
 
divine_madness said:
It isn't RWD so there is no chance you could possibly die at all.


If it was RWD however that would mean almost certain death.
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just dont get rwd and make sure it has traction control. you will die without traction control.

oh, and then drive within your own limits
 
Go for it if it's what you really want, but crikey if it's gonna cost you as much as your sport did in the beginning to insure then I'd have a good think about what else you could do with the money...
 
I don't think your crazy for thinking about a turbo, just crazy for being willing to pay that kind of cash, that's nearly all my monthly wage :s

If your sure you can afford it, then go for it..
 
I do earn enough to be able to buy one, and come march i shall have an extra £400 to play with a month also.. so it's not going to be a stuggle.. just depends on me really. :confused:
 
VBDub said:
Why do people call Subaru's MY and then the year? What does it stand for?
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Model Year. This is the factory's production run, which may not relate to when the car was actually build. Thus an "MY04" might actually have been build in 2005. It is often used by Scoob owners because it enables you to avoid bug-eyes (MY01 and MY02).


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Seriously mate, I really wouldn't do it. Paying so much on insurance is insane, it's pretty much wasted money which could be put to much better use if you hold onto the sport for a bit. If the insurance for the sport is so high, you must live in a fairly dodgy insurance area, which means the turbo insurance will be :eek:
 
Mad old tory said:
Seriously mate, I really wouldn't do it. Paying so much on insurance is insane, it's pretty much wasted money which could be put to much better use if you hold onto the sport for a bit. If the insurance for the sport is so high, you must live in a fairly dodgy insurance area, which means the turbo insurance will be :eek:
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Not necessarily a bad area, the area I lived in before I moved to London was as good as it gets for insurance purposes, still paid £5k to insure the VX220T at 20.
 
I'm jealous of your financial situation but not your lack of logic. Just think how much better use you could make of all that money.
 
Gibbo said:
Somebody can lose control of any car irrelevant if its FWD, RWD or 4x4 as all cars have their limits and if you push close or pass them your gonna end up off the road on your roof no doubt.
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I think this is an overly simplistic and idealistic viewpoint.

Do you genuinelly think an RWD car is not inherently more 'risky' than an FWD car? It is infact the very attributes of RWD that true enthusiasts such as yourself enjoy and crave which makes it problematic for those less experienced.

You probably consider losing the back end in a nice drift fun - and rightly so. For somebody with less experience, oversteer is considerably harder to recover from than understeer, and of course, the faster the car, the more likely you are to experience either.

FWD is more neutral and better suited to those with less experience. I don't really see how this can be disputed, this continuing ethos that powerful/RWD cars are not inherently any more risky than low power/FWD cars on this forum has really got me stumped. It seems people assume that everyone else can do whatever it is they can with equal or better proficiency. If only the real world was actually like that.
 
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Kreeeee said:
I'm jealous of your financial situation but not your lack of logic. Just think how much better use you could make of all that money.
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My thoughts, £3500 so you can have for all intents and purpose a "fake" impreza is madness, i just dont understand it, and i think you will be looking at more than that for a turbo.
 
cymatty said:
My thoughts, £3500 so you can have for all intents and purpose a "fake" impreza is madness, i just dont understand it, and i think you will be looking at more than that for a turbo.
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:confused:

Like your fake Saxo?
 
andi said:
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Like your fake Saxo?
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Does he pay £350 to insure his Saxo? Didn't last time I checked.

You know exactly what he means - the Impreza Sport is bought by people who really want a Turbo but cannot justify the cost of doing it, so they buy the next best thing - a chronically underpowered 8v naturally aspirated one which has the looks but not the performance. IMHO, not a bad thing to do at all, but don't try and judge it on its own merits becuase you know damn well why people buy them. Luckily most day to day people know so little about cars that they simply see a Subaru and go 'OMG LOOK A SCOOB WHOA LOL', witness this very forum every time somebody posts 'I just bought a 114bhp Impreza' for further examples of this :p

Oh, and yes, I do only own a 2.0 Mondeo becuase I couldn't justify the 2.5 V6, before you start.
 
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