40+ YEAR OLD IMPREZA OWNERS...
16 January 2011, 10:05 PM
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40+ YEAR OLD IMPREZA OWNERS...
...Do you have a sense of guilt, at 'middle age', about tooling around, and being really into, these cars; sinking serious wodges of cash into 'em, etc, etc.? (just like you were when you were in your 20s with hot hatches etc.).
Don't get me wrong, I love performance cars, and ALWAYS will (I bet I'll still be driving one if I pass my 70+ retest
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Do you feel other motorists of similar age group look down on 'us' as being a bit sad? Do you feel they 'hate' us?
Don't get me wrong, I love performance cars, and ALWAYS will (I bet I'll still be driving one if I pass my 70+ retest
)...Do you feel other motorists of similar age group look down on 'us' as being a bit sad? Do you feel they 'hate' us?
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16 January 2011, 10:49 PM
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I'm 40 next year and I don't really care what others think - live and let live I say so go enjoy hooning around in a fast car whilst the guy next to you trundles around in his hum-drum mondeo 1.6L.
It's good enough for Jeremy Clarkson, so it's good enough for me
It's good enough for Jeremy Clarkson, so it's good enough for me
16 January 2011, 10:57 PM
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I get the **** taken at regualr intervals about driving a boy racer car. Couldn't care less really. Recently giot a Jag to run round in and now the same people call me an old man and ask if I want a pipe and slippers. You can't win
16 January 2011, 10:57 PM
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I'd rather be a 40 year old bloke with a fast modified capable car than be a 40 year old wishing I had one.
I have no end of grief of middle age blokes in clapped out rep mobiles trying to get in front of me no matter how they do it.
I can be bimbling along the road minding my own business and driving at the same pace as others when some mr average *** head in his 2001 vectra with 200,000 miles on either tail gates me or cuts me up. This is way more common than you'd think.
I don't give a flying f*ck what anyone else thinks about what I drive. I like it and that's that.
I have no end of grief of middle age blokes in clapped out rep mobiles trying to get in front of me no matter how they do it.
I can be bimbling along the road minding my own business and driving at the same pace as others when some mr average *** head in his 2001 vectra with 200,000 miles on either tail gates me or cuts me up. This is way more common than you'd think.
I don't give a flying f*ck what anyone else thinks about what I drive. I like it and that's that.
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16 January 2011, 11:04 PM
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interesting thread, often wondered whether id be driving a scoob at 40..i get all the above now and im no where near 40.
you cant please everyone, and life is too short, just do what makes you happy. dont change or do what other want u 2 do. besides with global warming and fuel prices, nows the best time to live your dream and enjoy your motor!
you cant please everyone, and life is too short, just do what makes you happy. dont change or do what other want u 2 do. besides with global warming and fuel prices, nows the best time to live your dream and enjoy your motor!
16 January 2011, 11:12 PM
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...I have no end of grief of middle age blokes in clapped out rep mobiles trying to get in front of me no matter how they do it.
I can be bimbling along the road minding my own business and driving at the same pace as others when some mr average *** head in his 2001 vectra with 200,000 miles on either tail gates me or cuts me up. This is way more common than you'd think.....
I can be bimbling along the road minding my own business and driving at the same pace as others when some mr average *** head in his 2001 vectra with 200,000 miles on either tail gates me or cuts me up. This is way more common than you'd think.....
You get the impression those types seem to think - presumably because of the overt nature of the Impreza - that we've got something to prove, everytime we're out in it, etc.
It's not our 'fault' that it's a marque that happens to float our boat... Just as their Vectra/Mondeo, etc., presuambly floats theirs?
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16 January 2011, 11:19 PM
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my first scoob was nearly 3years ago as a fiftieth birthday perssie to myself wrx with ppp tried it for 2 years and then for my fifty secound last year sold it and bought my latest a sti type uk with ppp and boy am i glad although i do get strangelooks from some of the cops round here...snigger obviously wonder what an old boy is doing in a scoob...
16 January 2011, 11:20 PM
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I think it depends on the model and styling.
I have a standard Classic Wagon, and my neighbours asked why I bought "such an old mans car"
So there's me, at 45 pointing out the large bonnet scoop
I have a standard Classic Wagon, and my neighbours asked why I bought "such an old mans car"
So there's me, at 45 pointing out the large bonnet scoop
16 January 2011, 11:22 PM
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The UK is really snobby about cars compared to places like America and Australia. Middle classes over here basically despise petrol-heads, and cars like Astons are only cool because of the image and luxury....nobody owning them would take pride in even being able to change the oil!
If you mod cars by default you are labeled a boy-racer or chav in Britain. Yet in places like Australia it's a virtue to have a Commodore SS on the driveway and a V8 being rebuilt in the garage!
If you mod cars by default you are labeled a boy-racer or chav in Britain. Yet in places like Australia it's a virtue to have a Commodore SS on the driveway and a V8 being rebuilt in the garage!
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16 January 2011, 11:29 PM
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It's OK to own one of these after 40 ............... it's the modding that's sad, very sad. 
It tells everyone that you bought the wrong car, and at 40 you really should know better!!
It tells everyone that you bought the wrong car, and at 40 you really should know better!!
16 January 2011, 11:32 PM
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I'm ok then.
16 January 2011, 11:42 PM
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You have a bouncing boob as an avatar
16 January 2011, 11:49 PM
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Laugh. That phrase: "a bouncing boob". The disembodiment!
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Reminds me of Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Too Afraid to Ask... "I know all about gigantic ****..."
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