Dave Thornton

Glorious moment at last year's RAC Rally in South Wales.

Get to top of forest track to slightly muddy bit. Another half mile so try to keep going. Marshall (who is supposed to be keen on rallying) in best Welsh accent comes out with

Him: "Have you got reasonable traction?"
Me: "Yes, it's got four wheel drive - it's like the rally car"
Him: "Is it?"

"Reasonable traction"! I wasn't going to explain the principles of a differential.

Denz

Bloke behind counter in petrol Station:

That nippy then ?? !!!!!

yeah abit

Regular Comments Of Passangers

Pull away:AHHHGGHH SHHHIITT
Lift off a bit : Oh MYYY god
Roundabout:FUUUUU@@@ing HELLLL

Glen Stenhouse

"That's not like you buying a nice family car" (WRX Type RA)

After being followed for 12 mile on a winding road by a 360 Mondena and pulling into a petrol station with him following.

"What the F**K is in that?"
"2 litre turbo."
"What did you pay for it?
"20K (NZ)"
"Splutter....But I paid 10 times that for my heap of ****!"

Kevin Tree

From passenger when going around rounabout, he thought we were going straight on : **it

From same passenger exiting motorway around the usuall slip road bend: There is a man at Subaru who REALLY knows how to set up cars

From passenger talking to someone on his mobile whilst going for a first time spin along windy road " Yeah, I'm in a Sub..., Oh S***, Oh S***" and they were the only words that he said for the next 5 minutes

From petrol station lady "So, does that wing thing do any good then?"

From passenger after we exited main road onto side road "I thought that we were going this way but then I thought, No way can we turn at this speed"

I still bear the scars from the mother in laws nails as she gripped my arm after "gentle" acceleration! Hate to think what would happen if I was serious

S55 DVM

I find 3 reactions depending on age:

My 11 year old nephew loves the take off, gasps of "woooooowww!"

My 30-ish friends all have a stunned silence, followed by "holy sh*t!"

My 70-ish parents always shout "f***ing hell, do you want me to be sick!"

A non Subaru story which I must tell happened about 10 years ago. A mate of mine was really into VW Beetles, and got hold of this early 60's one that had 6v electrics. We were zooming about town in it, and kept grinning at this plod car that was circling around. Well we got pulled over and the older cop came strolling up to my window, the passenger side, and said casually "so you think your a real smart **** driving like that do you?", to which I kind of nodded toward my lap. He looked down to reveal no steering wheel, the car was LHD! I actually felt sorry for the bloke, his younger colleague could hardly keep a straight face. He basically crawled back to his squad car in shame, to a huge burst of laughter from us lot. Definitely one of the funniest things I have ever seen!

Craig H

"Well that was a little surprising wasn't it"
Owner of "modified" 22B after I overtook him on the Revs day.

"So how much power has that thing got"
V8 Twin turbo Esprit owner after flat out run in france. Also EVO 5 owner at Donington.

"What you done to that then?" Recovery driver after big end went (surprised?)

"Is that thing missing?" Dumb neighbour!!

Various Cossie owners
"Goes quite well for 280hp, dunnit!"

Or, it did.

Paulie

"what's that whistling noise?"

(from girlfriend) "stop it, you're doing that on purpose"