bondyuk

Its quite simple doesnt matter what car you drive and if you wanna badge it as a boy racer car!! The boy racer thing is the person not the car. If you drive round, with your under-carrage lights on and you bass box boomin or even your flame thrower exhaust burning the back of your car to pieces i would class you as a boy racer... If you enjoy your car and cherish it, it dont matter just enjoy before you have a family and become skint and drive a nova haha!!

Bondy - AGE 24
STI 4

C

So you are tarring people by their dress sense?

The fact that there is very few 'distastfull' Evo's kicking about (in terms of stick on tat) but god knows how many Fast & Furious Impreza's everywhere says it all.

For example: Talk about a 'flamer kit' or neons on here and you will get a pretty good reception, go try it on the MLR or GTR forums & they would probably ban you!!!

You always get the odd bad apple, but with Scoobs now the cost of a cheap Saff Cossie or a mint Escort RS Turbo then it opens new doors for people.

An early WRX is still an Impreza Turbo, whereas a ols Skyline GTs/m is a country mile wide of a GTR - about the only thing they share is the name!

Mad Gypsy

Saw a 'chav' last night in a RB5, of course it had Lexus lights and it go's without saying he had a baseball cap on, white trainers etc.

He tried to impress me/goad me by tearing off. Perhaps I should have taken the bait and thrashed him in my Type R. But, I just laughed and then felt a little depressed that we drive the same car. (to anyone looking)

Most other people that I see in a scoob will wave, nod or show some other kind of recognition of each others cars, even when parked. This little **** just looked p1st off that I had a faster car than him.

I spoke to the biggest chav ever just before christmas in Pro Tyre in Poole. He was talking about his car (a 94 UK classic,) so that everyone could hear.
Without warning he started talking to me about his car. Being polite I asked which one was his. He pointed outside to a green scoob. I said "that's nice mate". He continued, "It's that Impreza out there, it's ******* fast mush! 390bhp". "Have you had it modified" I asked. "Nah, thats standard mush!, I'm gonna tune it to 700bhp." He then said "which one's yours then?" I pointed over his shoulder and said, "That black Type R over there".
He went the brightest shade of red I've ever seen, he quite literally didn't say another word. I had to use all the self-control I could muster not to **** myself laughing.

If I'm honest, a small part of the reason I'm getting rid of mine is to do with the image the car has. That and a 996

Autocar

Oooohhhh don't evo owners get touchy was looking into buying one but don't want to end up like that



(have to say owner not driver because it never goes anywhere )

lmsbman

I must admit that the image of Scoobs nowadays is that of a boy-racers car. I bought mine because it is a 'Drivers' car, not for how it looks. I deliberately got a WRX rear spoiler on my STi7 because I personally think the huge wing looks naff. I have had it PPP'd, but I am a little embarrssed by the growl from the exhaust. I am seriously thinking of removing all the cerise decals as I also think they look naff.
I'm not having a go at anyone about their cars, but personally, I didn't buy the car for the 'look at me factor'. I got it because I love driving it.

Mark_B

You forgot to mention the FOG LIGHTS!!!!
That is a true boy racer trade mark, don't you agree

Scoobydick

When ever I meet a true performance car enthusiast and say I drive an Impreza they seem to get a wry smile on their face these days, whereas a few years ago people really respected the badge.

C

How do you know that??? Do know you somehow?

Are you denying all of my statement then? or was it a little close to the truth :

S.B.

At the end of the day i bought my car because i wanted it not what other people think of it. My money my choice.

little_idiot

One of the things that baffles me from reading this thread is that the majority of you have had your scoobs for a good while, before they became more affordable to younger people (such as me, 25 years old and picking up my MY99 turbo wagon tommorow ) yet you are now slagging off the impreza on it's standard appearence, such as the fog light! they are factory fitted, not a boy racer modification and the cerise badges on the STI, they are a subtle thing that shows the car to be what it is.

I agree that more wide-boys are starting to get impreza's but it will never be to the point of a Nova as the impreza is a rare car in comparisson. It is a car that attracts attention purely on the basis that it's an ugly Jap monster, which is an acquired taste.

Personally, I wantes a scoob since I was 15 and they popped up from nowhere in the WRC, I also am a genuine enthusiast and get so much pleasure from driving, I haven't bought one to charv around in or pick up school girls! (seems to be a whole bunch of young (18-20yr) MR2 drivers where i live ) I bought one because when i test drove a few, they blew me away

please don't tar me with the same brush as the wide-boys, believe me, I'm gonna be a waver, even if no-one waves back

James

S.B.

I don't wave though

nigsy

C, I will tar people by their dress sense !! If you walk around in the above, you are more than likely scum!

I think you are living in your own little bubble if you haven't seen many tragic evos. There is a red 6 round here.........covered in stickers, looks lovely ............

Mind you the guy does have some nice tracksuit bottoms (too short) showing his white socks, white trainers (blindingly so) huge Mr T gold chain and an expression of which cro magnum man would be proud

mo,s scoobymonster

hi guys im only just turned 21 bought my95 jap wrx but didnt go mad boy racer mods with it i kept it subtle and slick looks.i bought the car cos i wanted 1 since i was about 15 im a car enthusiast and loved the scoobs drove 1 knew i had to have 1 so started living like a scrubber and saving like mad i dont have any burberry caps or white socks.
but i know what you mean about the boy racers but still i wouldnt go far as saying they are common like the novas even the boy racers look and acknowledge the scoob that may be their funny way of respecting the scoob lol. so please dont brand us all that all the youngsters are boy races some of us still respect everything that goes with the subaru badge

C

I must be 'chav scum' then because I walk around in tracksuit bottoms & trainers when I can't be bothered to wear anything else

However I'm 'chav scum' that's building a seriously high powered track/drag orientated Evo and have a very high powered Skyline R33 GTR due to arrive in the next 2 weeks from Japan.

I'm also 'chav scum' that has his own house, and a top spec Alfa 156 company car all by the age of 25..

Could you actually BE any more shallow by judging someone by how they look? I must be classic 'chav' in my T shirt & tracksuit bottoms at the weekend, but I can assure you one thing for certain that i'm not

& apart from the odd bad apple as said before, nope I can't think of any 'bad' Evo's that I have seen

Jay_bee

iTrader: (1)

Just to add my 2p's worth, a mate of mine has been after a scoob for a couple of months now and he is coming with me to my first local meet this Sunday, he's only 22, he doesnt wear baseball caps, tracksuits or any Mr T jewellery... does this mean everyone is gonna be p***'d off with me for bringing him along because... OH NO.... NOT YOUNG PEOPLE.... I seriously doubt it! (BTW im 28 - does that mean Im classed a young 'un or old 'un )

If you are genuinely interested in performance cars (of any type) what difference does it make how old you are? Are you trying to tell us that you can only be taken seriously once you reach 30+?


However, Im def not trying to encourage any bling bling or boyo's, burberry wearing hooligans etc etc cos I dont like to see it either, just trying to say that not all young people that drive/want scoobs should be thought of in the same light.

Sorry for the rant

J

image doctor

LOL @ C

By telling everyone how much you have tells me you are a complete and utter Chav. Its typical of a Chav to try and show how much wealth they have, after all this is why they wear so much gold and sports wear with huge logo's.

In most cases less is more, unfortunately Chavs like your self just can not see that.

No problem though, gives me and Mrs. id something to poke fun at.

LOL

C

Precisely!

ID - Thats your perogative at the end of the day - it's interesting being called a 'chav' i've never been called one before

FYI - I wear no gold, have no peircings, no tatoo's, none of the sportswear I chose to wear when i'm feeling lazy is covered with huge logo's at all

But because i'm in my 20's I guess im not old enough to be enjoying a fast car without being classed a 'chav' or 'scum' with a big loan

Have a chuckle on me - I'll be the 'chav' in the corner laughing with all my 'chavvy' mates at the silly old fool trying to impress with a Impreza perhaps I could even turn round & say "ooh I owned a couple of those in my day but it looks like every Tom, Dick & Harry has one"

Regards

Chav

S.B.

http://www.chavscum.co.uk

C

Well according to that & the "how to spot a chav bit"

Nope! never had one of them!

Nope haven't got or wouldn't even consider buying!

Nope - must have forgotten them as well

Is a watch classed as 'chav'? otherwise I fail again

Damn failed again

I'm not doing well here - so far I havent got anything!

Bugger and another failure

Chris - branded a 'chav' because I have some tracksuit bottoms

SilverTurboWagon

This is why I like the wagon.

image doctor

oh please don't think I would drive anything like an Impreza. Persish the thought.

OK you're not a Chav, more a councilite I guess.

id

S.B.

sti-04!!

see previous threads as i aint going to put my tuppence worth to this
its bollocks!!
just coz your young & can afford a scoob (i have ordered a sti10) doesnt mean you are a boy racer or chaz & dave !!
get a grip lads & grow up

jealousy !!

stephen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C

Hmmm maybe a Vectra then?

Lets get this right again shall we: Someone had a pop at me because I turned round & said not everyone who wears some tracksuit bottoms is automatically a 'chav scum' but according to him I am (seems im just missing the Nova to complete)

According to you I WAS 'chav scum' but now im councilite

Whats the next step after councilite? because unfortunately I cannot recall ever even stepping foot inside a Council House, let alone living in one...

Chris - Now a 'councilite' as I have debatable 'chav' characteristics.

S.B.

With that sort of comment someone who thinks they are better than everyone else or at least people who live in council houses

SilverTurboWagon

I think http://www.hayezsquad.co.uk/mitsubishi.html <-- that this the problem with some owners.

Love the url too, '.../mitsubishi.html' Oh...dear.

C

I don't think i'm better than anyone else

However I do object to being called a 'chav' or a 'councilite'!!!!

Im sorry if I offended you with the tone of my writing, it's hard to express an opinion in the way one wants via the means of the written word.

Just making the point that Image Doctor is unfortunately incorrect

nigsy

Dont be fooled by the rocks that he's got...... C's still C's still a chavvy from the block, used to have a little now has a lot,don't matter he still knows where he came from ........... Ratners

Goochie

Classic scoobs have replaced the Escort RS Turbo as the yob's car of choice.

S2000 is the way forward my friends.