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2008 Impreza STI (UK Spec)
Official details released of the UK version of the 2008 Subaru Impreza STI
(needs adobe pdf reader or similar) Yes, I should be grown up and sensible about this. I'm forty in February - that's far too old to be buying a lairy hot hatch... So why am I itching to call my Scooby dealer and stick a deposit on one?! |
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God knows, cos it's bloody horrible looking!
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Shame, I always thought you had taste, garc. Obviously not!
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Other than the rear lights, which look like they belong on a 10-yr old Corsa owned by a teenager, I think it looks good.
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Front end looks like a barried Astra, back end looks like a barried Focus.
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It looks better in person. I quite like it, especially the 4 door for the USA.
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No idea what Subaru are thinking of with that thing. It's just hideous.
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i am a massive subaru buff... have always loved them. on the road, track or stages. when this model came out i thought it was hidious and agreed with the comments above. however after reading that pdf and looking at the picture of the STI model there is something deep inside that loves that car... i agree however with the comment about the lights belonging on a corsa, but apart from that i think in WR Blue with the gold wheels its going to be yet another success story!
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I hope it turns around Subaru's luck on the World Rally stage, I have to say.
It just looks meh, but surely it will be a handy car. Which, I suppose, is the point. |
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Maybe we ought to remember that a large part of Subaru's aim is to appeal to the Focus / Astra / Golf owners of this world with the "normal" Impreza.
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They could easily have built something with the same performance that didn't look such a blatant chav-wagon. But as you say, that's not really what the target audience want.
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Apart from those, er, delightful rear lights (bit of a general Jap thing there looking at a few other new models), I think the new one looks alot less "chavvy" than the old one.
Besides, hot hatches (and the STI is now the hottest) aren't supposed to be subtle... are they? As with most new Subarus, I think the looks will improve with a couple of face-lifts. In two years time people will wonder what all the fuss is about, and I suspect Subaru dealers will be more than happy that the hatch has blitzed the old Impreza in sales... all be it probably not to the extent they're hoping for right now. |
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I pulled up behind a new Impreza at tge lights this afternoon, at first i thought it was a Hyundai impersonating a BMW.
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Subaru's are the new Volvo really. The new Impreza is a great ripe off of the new Hyundai
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As an existing Subaru owner, I have yet to be convinced about buying the new model. If you go here
http://www.litimports.co.uk/ you can specify different/non-chav rear lights. I spoke to Iain Litchfield last year about a Type-25 version of the new car and he couldn't decide how powerful to make it - the (then) current car was up to around 450/450 (with FMIC) and he could go higher with the new one, but he couldn't see why anyone would want any more |
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I've already done a lot of work with the new Impreza and like it quite a lot. I've also got some seat time in the new lancer and the impreza is better.
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evo magazine seems to think the new STi is pretty good and they put it head-to-head with a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera. Admittedly the wet roads of North Wales played to the Scooby's strengths, but it still held its own.
They said the steering lacked feedback, but that once you'd broken through the confidence barrier the front end was actually fine. The car is not as hardcore as some might like, but I don't mind that. It is a road car after all. I hate to say it, but my much-loved RB5 is beginning to look just slightly dated and this STi could appeal, strange looks or not, but definitely not in 1980s white, which is what the road test car was. |
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Keep the RB5. It's the best of the classics and you'd always regret selling it. If/when the time comes, buy a cheap runabout aswell.
I've heard some very good reports of the new STI. I'm still to be absolutely convinced by its looks, but in dark grey metallic with the right 18" alloys it's a nice enough proposition. The one to wait for is the uprated Prodrive version, due later this year. Meanwhile, I wish Subaru would do the right thing and give us a proper performance Legacy. It deserves at least 100bhp more than the 240 in my Spec B. |
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the RB5 does look a bit dated but be honest, it looks miles better than any of the newer shape impreza's and performance wise is every bit as quick and it makes a better sound. the new STI is rather nice, weird looks but its a good car and well, in everyday situations you really cant beat a STI impreza or a lancer evo. if your getting rid off the RB5, and it was my money, i would go for the best japanese car of all time, a impreza 22B, not just the best looking impreza but the best looking car to come out of japan apart from the honda NSX-R and nissan 350Z, oh and there is the small matter that it is maniacly quick as well. are prodrive going to be doing their own version of the new impreza?, the last prodrive impreza, i believe the RB320 was a cracking car, evo actually said it was the best of the modern impreza's i think. |
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