steige79

I bought my first impreza last year. A 52 plate bugeye sti Ra that had been fully conveted to the blobeye spec. The car was mildly modified with the exhaust, intercooler, CAI etc. It went well and looked the part. However, I recently part exchanged it with a friend for a 96 Sti Ra V-Ltd. This was the ex whiteline Uk demo car and has every component they sell fitted to it including verus coilovers with remote dampers. It has also been treated to an Omp cage + race seats, there are a few go fast bits under the bonnet also. The newage Ra is their new demo car and you should see what they have done with that. Keep a look out in the Jap magazines in the next couple of months. One word Awesome!!

Anyway here are the pics:

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ericsti

Very nice.

wiley

iTrader: (63)

prefer the white newage, but i love all white scoobs. the classic is nice too btw

wiley

Pete

Classic is better.................i,m biast though.........

steige79

Wait until you see what it looks like now!!!

DANI

Absolutely stuning classics all the way!

Weasel 555

Very nice

53

iTrader: (41)

Lol, I have a picture of your bottom.

Sent to me by Graeme Jeram when I had a fitting question

Very cool car

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

Me too.

Lovely classic

DanTerzo

iTrader: (1)

Both lovely cars! Really liking the classic, fancy selling it?

ross_wrx

What I would give for that Newage!!!

beef-on-the-bone

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both very nice

any upto date pics of the newage then............

frayz

iTrader: (7)

Very clean for an early RA

reeperb5

i thought all classic RA'S were WHITE??

winker

iTrader: (1)

I also thought ra were white only?

M535I

ra v ltd isnt white .correct me if im wrong lol both cracking either way

winker

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is it just a v-limited without dccd?

Pete

Correct, my RA-V LIMITED was Blue..........

reeperb5

so does that mean the classic came in white and from what i can see a Mcrae edition???

jak_daniels

the white new age is wicked, very nice

steige79

Yes the blue is the original colour. The car is a Version 2 Sti Ra V-Ltd in mcrae blue and only 555 were built to comemerate Mcrae's win. It has air con, electric windows and no Dccd or central locking.

steige79

Oh er!

Thanks for the comment. I can't take any credit for the car unfortunately.

Here are a few more of my undercarriage

M444GY

iTrader: (72)

that looks sweet mate , gutted i sold my speedlines as it sits nice on em

moffett

Love it,,looks so good

EddScott

How do you find the difference going from newage to classic?

Nice cars both of them.

RBGUS

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Nice cars,especially the classic

steige79

The power delivery is totally different. The newage is really punchy low down and gave you a real shove in the back at 3.5K revs, Where as the classic power delivery is much more progressive and linear. It doesn't feel as if you are going as fast but you know it when you check the speedo.

As for the handling, well its difficult to compare as the newage was standard besides some eibach springs and to be honest being my first subaru i wasn't all that impressed. It had lots of grip but understeered on the limit and i had a couple of scares on the backroads.

The new car with the complete whiteline set-up is absolutely amazing. You know that old saying it handles like its on rails well that sums it up. Just point and go its like 4 wheel drive go kart. No body roll whatsoever, the only limit is the tyres and the size of your heehaws!!!

steige79

A couple more of the Ra i took today.

Plenty camber set on the front!

davidrhyswoods

Fantastic car. I've got number 221 and they do look like they've just come off a Rally stage! The large pics on the RA forum really show how clean the car is. Well done.

I'm wondering if yours has had a different gearbox fitted as they all came with DCCD as standard! I notice someone has fitted side and rear spats.

Love the boot without a spoiler!

The specs (for all us anoraks out there).....

Special Features:
- only 555 cars were produced
- 'Colin McRae' and 'Derek Ringer' stitched into STi seats
- applied model code GC8C4DD
- unique paint code selected by Colin, saltire blue, colour code 53C
- DCCD
- Closed Deck Block
- Short Ratio gearbox
- Rear LSD
- Fifth fuel injector on the inlet manifold
- Rally style roof vent
- FIA "World Rally Manufacturer's Champions Subaru 1995" badge on left hand side of bootlid
- No rear wash wipe
- No electric mirrors
- No side skirts or rear corner spats
(Taken from the RA forum)

My Number 221

CupraDave

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I saw the classic when Graeme had it and I absolutely loved it, great car