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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 06:51 PM
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HI, Need some advice please. I'm looking to buy an Impreza Preferably a 96WRX(as I'm not minted) I've been looking about and found the perfect car...except it was an automatic, now i'm not a big fan of auto's but I went along to see the car anyways. She was really nice just imported beautiful body only 35,000 MILES. I took her out and she drove nicely and flew when I dared to give her sum welly. However I am still not convinced that I would enjoy driving the Auto as much as a Manual. there was one other thing I noticed, on the vehicles ID plate it read the wrong code for the car it was, The plate read GC8B48P, the car was registered a 96 and should have been GC8C48P I put this down to bad translation of the original Jap Logbook as I saw the original (all in Jap) and the translation document which did say 96.
Any way enough of my story, Are there any happy Auto owners out there? how does the Auto compare to the Manual in performance figures,should I hang out for what I really want(manual)? This car I viewed was perfect for me in every other way(price,colour, miles,etc)but I can't make my mind up(probably sold by now..Thanks loads. BTW is this the right forum for this topic CYA
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Old Sep 25, 2003 | 06:52 AM
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I had exactly the same dilemna when i bought my first scoob, unless you actually want an Auto scoob DO NOT buy one.
You will wish that you had paid that bit extra and got a manual, auto's are much harder to sell which will also be a prob when resale time comes. IMHO dont do it.

Rob

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Old Sep 25, 2003 | 02:08 PM
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Thanks alot mate. Was wot iI was hoping to hear. Now to be patient.
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Old Sep 25, 2003 | 09:51 PM
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Aaaah but manual scoobs can't do 9.1 second 1/4 miles
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Old Sep 25, 2003 | 10:45 PM
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Go on..... u got my full undivided attention.
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Old Sep 26, 2003 | 06:42 AM
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Yeah but 9.1sec scoobs dont run std Autoboxes

Rob
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