Tell me about: Subaru Impreza Sport

Scrap the scooby idea, how about a 156 V6 190 somthing BHP and some nice interior, or go ST24 for cheaper insurance. Some-ones mum on here bought a nice one for £1400, you could also pay your deposit on insurance and still have some left for some wheels
 
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For clarity, this is not the turbo-pseudo-rally car, but the slightly more sensible (and cheap to run and insure) version however with 4wd and a punchy 2 litre flat four boxer engine it's far from boring!

DRIVE
The drive is great - this is a really fun car with the wonderful flat-4 engine note Subaru is famous for and plenty of power for acceleration.
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Isnt this false advertising? :p
 
schumi84 said:
Those are about the specs of my 1.6 Megane :). For 2.0l i would want over 150 BHP tbh, though looking at the insurance quote you have for it, the lack of power is probably the reason why it is cheap.
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Yeah, I ran some other 2l cars through just now, Primera GT, 406 GLX and Galant V6, £1200 a piece, seems the Impreza is really lacking. :)

Having seen those quote I'll probably drop down to a 1.8 for my searching, as I want to keep insurance at £1000 or below. :)

InvG
 
That soudns pretty good to me, fully comp with 0 NCD is good especially considering when you're only 21. When i got my Megane i was 22, been driving 3 months and the best quote i got was from Quinn for £1170 TPFT.

Shame is that Quinn only seem good on the first quote, running the quote again through now that i am 24 with 2 yrs NCD at renewal and it is the same price but fully comp, the best i can get elsewhere is £550.
 
If it only costs £200 more to insure the GT, I would go for it.

I mean 30 mins ago you were prepared to buy a £2k slow ass scoob, whereas a GT is a about £1k or less.

And now you thinking about 1.8 cars, not making much sense to me?
 
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Yeah, I think Direct Line want me, as everyone else is quoting like £200-£300 more on anything than they are. The fact I have two accidents (one being Jan this year) says to me insurance should be nasty, but it isn't with them which is really good. :)

InvG
 
Shimmy said:
If it only costs £200 more to insure the GT, I would go for it.

I mean 30 mins ago you were prepared to buy a £2k slow ass scoob, whereas a GT is a about £1k or less.

Not making much sense to me?
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Very true, but I couldn't seem to find many/any Primera GTs for less than £2k (not on auto trader anyway).

I'm not 'prepared to buy the scoob', just considering options of which that was the first I'd found. :)

InvG
 
bear in mind a 1.8T skoda octavia is also only a group 12/13 :)(spec dependant)


180bhp decent performance and cheap insurance


2-2 1/2k will get you a 00/01 elegance spec octy turbo :)

swift remap sees you with 200 plus horses and vag reliability

have a nosey on the autotrader seems to be a good few under 2 1/2k for sale (ignore the non turbo ones their pretty slow


or if you want a bit of economy get a nice 1.9tsi classic 105 bhp standard (remap sees 140) insurance group 6


https://secure.parkers.co.uk/secure/content/pdf/26847.pdf classic

https://secure.parkers.co.uk/secure/content/pdf/19900.pdf tubby
 
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L0rdMike said:
Yep, 114 sounds more like a 1.6 figure then a 2.0.
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People are too spoilt nowadays :)

This is an old engine, 15 years old (probably a lot more once you take into account development and stuff) and in 1993 that wasn't too bad a figure for the boxer lump :p

Need some figures of some other 2.0 'normal' engines from say 1993 to put it in perspective, it won't seem as bad then :) I say normal as I don't mean compare it to another marques top sporty model, like for like and all.
 
Even the 2.0L Mondeo had 133bhp and you certainly couldn't call that sporty. The engine in that Impreza must have pre-dated the car by years because even in 1993 most engines were 16v DOHC lumps.
 
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