Brun

All Wheel Drive - just like any other Impreza Turbo.
Forget the 30.7 or indeed the 27. Unless you plan to drive steady everywhere - it just will not happen. Low 20's is the realistic everyday figure.

ditchmyster

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Hello and welcome.

Your floggin a dead un, so to speak unless you have a very good job these cars are not for your average 22yr old, and i don't mean to be disrespectful.

They ARE expensive to run! very low 20's is good. Insurance @ 22 will be alot.
The servicing isn't soo bad,but engine failures are common if not correctly serviced and driven, saying that they are reliable and don't have a alot of faults like some cars.

Smiles per mile they are hard to beat for the money.
Get one of these set up properly running 280 bhp and there are'nt many cars under £100k that that will be leaving you for dead especially on a country road. In the right hands. lol
They are super car chasers and that does not come cheap!!!

Happy hunting.

Carlh

AWD is All-Wheel-Drive. Hence the scoob is great all year round and sticks to the road like glue

greendragonkungfu

for a guide on fuel usage, ive done 20k in 12 months in my classic import. 50 ltr tank, 220-280 miles to a tank. my fuel receipts are just over 6 grand. i dont find it worth doing splash and dashes, so only do full fill ups. the tanks empty quick!!

WRXrowdy

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All depends on where you live and driving style I suppose, but pretty sure mine is better than low 20's average.

I haven't done any scientific calculations but I am damn sure that the scoob is better on fuel than my other car, which is a Volvo V40 T4 (1.9 turbo 200bhp) and I do drive that relatively steady. The Volvo has a trip computer (I know these aren't 100% accurate) and reads an average of between 25-28mpg and the scoob is no worse than that, but I do live in the country, so could understand town driving hitting fuel consumption, but then again a workmate of mine has a clio 1.4 and reckons that runs high 20's living in town.

On a run half a tank of juice has seen me from 10 miles west of Brighton in to north devon no problem a couple of times with a few spirited bursts along the way, with a boot full of suitcases and four up.

WRXrowdy

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This thread has made me pull my finger out and get some actual figures for fuel consumption.
My car is a 52 plate, 2003 blobeye WRX. As far as I am aware it is standard, apart from a Prodrive back box and quickshift (so the salesman told me). It has done 78k, needs a full service and could do with full geometry check/adjustment.
Started off at the beggining of the week, fuel light came on so into a garage 100 yards down the road and put £40 of V power in. This equated to 27.99 litres, and half a tank on the gauge.
The car was used, as ever, on a daily basis. This takes in a 7 mile commute from the village I live to the schools my kids go to along a mixture of narrow country lanes and B roads, school run traffic chaos, and a wait of several minutes at a level crossing that normally has two or three trains go through before the barriers open.
I then drop my wife off half a mile further on and head to work 12 miles further, on open A roads, a small stretch of dual carraigeway and then a mile and a half through busy town traffic (including another level crossing), with the return commute exactly the same again taking in school run.
Plus trips to local villages, and weekly shopping trip etc.

Throughout this test I have not driven differently from normal. Baring in mind I am a 35 year old with a couple of kids I don't drive like a single 22 year old any more but never the less I have put the boot down now and then, overtaking cars where need be and not strictly sticking to speed limits. The results, I think, are quite impressive. They are as follows:-

£40 Vpower = 27.99 litres / 4.54 = 6.165 gallons
Distance travelled from fuel warning light coming on, filling up, then warning light coming on again = 180.6 miles
180.6 / 6.165 = 29.2mpg

I'm happy with that!

Brun

Personally i wouldn't trust the gauge or light. Try a true test from a full tank, run it and then re fill with a full tank and see what thr figures say. They might be the same but would be more accurate :thume:

GREGGYG

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Hi Steven, welcome to the site. Subaru's and MPG don't mix for obvious reasons.

It's like wanting to eat a big thick bar of chocolate and checking the calories too.....you don't check the calories! You just eat and enjoy the chocolate.

I pay £68 to fill up my Subaru, and I always get 200 miles to a full tank. I may get up to 240 on a motorway. (I have had 4 STi's and they have all been more or less identical in fuel consumption)

Greg

WRXrowdy

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You are right to some extent, but it'll do for me. I had estimated it would do about 180 miles from previous fuel usage so its about right.
Running around with a full tank of fuel will not give an accurate figure either, apparently driving with over 3/4 tank of fuel has a negative effect on fuel consumption and we don't all drive around with the tank brimmed all the time .

Brun

I see what you're saying but the difference between 3/4 of a tank and full is 15kg or there abouts so in the real world having your window wound down is more likely to affect your mpg.

Gear Head

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Hi Steve

The questions you are asking are setting off alarm bells!
If you are going to get a loan for an 8 year old performance car, I take it you don't have £3k stashed away incase the engine goes which does happen I'm afraid.
Also, please, before doing anything else, get an insurance quote because at your age I would say you are looking at £2k! MY quote have gone from £650 3 months ago to £1000 now! And I am 28, 9years no claims, 2nd car so 3000 miles a year and it would be kept in my garage. So you can understand why I think you need to check insurance first.

And then there is the mpg. Manufacturers figure are ALWAYS obtained on a rolling road, not real world performace.
I have had 3 impreza turbos and the average was around 23mpg, regardless of how I drove it. Best i got once though was 37mpg driving at 50mph on a motorway in 35degree heat.
Never got anywhere near that ever again.

Seriously, if I was ever going to get another one, i would want to have a godd £3k in the bank when it rains scooby engines and transmissions.

Also, £5500 is way over priced regardless of the low mileage or condition. £4k is more realistic. But I would push for £3500.

Have a long hard think as on top of the £125 a month loan, I reckon you are going to need another £150 a month for insurance, £70 for 230-250 miles, plus money for maintainence.

They are great cars but cost an absolute fortune to run!

performance sti

get shot of the woman you got a scooby as they cost you more

WRXrowdy

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A lot of things will affect consumption, windows down, air con on, tyre pressures and condition, amount of passengers and luggage etc.
You are quite right, the only way to get a true figure is to brim it, use it and brim it again but for the purpose of my calculation and peace of mind I am happy with the way I've worked them out.
In order for my car to be returning 21-22mpg I would have needed to see a figure of around 130 miles for the amount of fuel I put in the car.
The fuel gauge on 130 miles of fuel used was still indicating around 1/4 tank, maybe just under, of fuel left to go and I don't think that the fuel gauge would be that far out. Even if the light should have come on 20 miles before it did then that would still give me a figure of 26mpg or as near as damn it. Of course there is always the chance that the fuel light came on before it should of and the actual figure should be greater but I doubt it.
For me a real world figure of high twenty average is about right, and the car has been driven a lot of that this week with windows down, five people in the car (one of those pregnant so technically six ) and a boot full of crap.