frawls, you would have enjoyed a thread i started awhile back in the members section as im sure you have contributed some useful info.
here's how i started it.
THE FUTURE FOR SUBARU FANS IN IRELAND
i ask myself, what will i be driving in ten years time and i cant see myself in a road going subaru for a few reasons.
i was never a fan of the legacy and after driving one or two it never gave me the trill of the turbo impreza, so the only car in the subaru range would have to be the impreza for me especially been a rally fan and enjoying the odd track day and some road going spirited driving on occasion. ive been driving impreza's 8 years now and have had a jdm wrx wagon, a uk turbo, a sti type r and now a uk wrx hawkeye and a jdm wrx for the track but as above i dont see myself buying another one, am i going to have to hold on to the hawkeye for a very long time and just modernise it as i go to keep the interest or let go and go for some of the new low emission european cars on the mmarket like the alfa mito or similar.
With the very plain interiors that come in the impreza which i find very boring towards most european preformance cars i.e. the 90's escorth cosy, lancia delta integrale and r5 turbo to name but a few, which came with a "boost" guage and oil presure guage as standard and still look great today and the cars of 2000 i.e. alfa 156 gta, ford focus rs and golf gti. there is now dought that the impreza is still a very fast car in todays market but other brands have caught up and passed them, subaru made its name on the the stages of the wrc in the early nighties and back then the turbo impreza was the king of the road and could eat supercars for breakfast on a back road but imo have not kept up with the times and need to look down a different route.
Imo i would love to see subaru going down the road like lotus, small engine+ light weight = fast car(which the wrc is looking for) with a low ratio gearbox with a paddle shift to get the best from it and 2 seat with rwd, now i know most here love the practiacality of four doors and a boot but in todays ireland, it costs you big and is only getting worse, i know ill get bored in a few years as i only got the hawkeye lately but when the time comes what will we all do? so i ask the question,
with the demise of the petrol impreza in ireland and subaru world rally team pulling out of the WRC, what does the future hold for irish fans of subaru road going rally cars i ask you??
Cant beat that 5 cylinder sound and as you saw it goes like sh1t off a shovel. That site is great by the way for all sort of really high quality cars drag racing each other in HD.
