playtime

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Looking for another impreza at the moment high miles classics with top money being asked. And then you got bugeye wrx with 100k + for sti money and loads of dodgy dealers. Even a type r is over the odds hitting near 8.5k. I think i will sit on the sides and watch for now lol.

Supra_Pig

I thought the opposite! My Hawkeye WRX with only 50k on the clock is up for 5995 and not getting a lot of interest.

Time of year is normally bad to sell though

imprezagaz

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I sold my v3 type r 2 years ago for £3300. It only had 80k

FMJ

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Might have to drop it a bit for a sale mate. They just don't fetch much.

taylor85

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Noticed the classics going silly money for a decent one

Trinity

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Way overpriced for a poverty car.

Prices are definitely good. Great time to sell, rubbish time to buy - should of gotten in there earlier

Its the rogue dealers like Cheshire Performance that bumped up the prices, as much as i dispise them, they did me a favour

Norman Dog

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I'll sell you my 2006 Hawkeye STi for £12k if you're interested.

EOEUMC

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I couldn't sell my reasonable classic with 62,000 miles for £1500 the other week. I wanted a quick sale as I had my eyes on another car, but that sold so took price off of mine

ditchmyster

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They're all getting on quite a bit now even the newest Blobs are 10yrs old now and good ones getting harder to find, anyone in the know doesn't want to take a chance on the 2.5 engine so the field is narrowing rapidly especially with so many being broken on a weekly basis.

Prices in Japan are also on the rise even for the crap they palm off on us. I would also say bang for buck Imprezas are pretty much top of the pile and with a few simple mods for about a grand they can stay with the current crop of very hot hatches, even more so the Classics which are still even by todays standards pretty ballistic with relatively modest power.

Those coming back to the fold will have to get their wallets out if they want a clean rust free Classic with reasonable miles, I'd jump back in now as prices are only going one way.

lordharding

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Classics will go the way cosworths and RSs have become

Very few on the roads now in Cumbria
Just a Sunday afternoon car for many now

fat-thomas

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sioc have ruined so many,those without wrc sticker kits or called vader are holding value now.

fawor

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Bollocks, pistonheads first page 2005 widetrack 7.5k -was on ebay 2 weeks ago for 5200 or nearest offer. Sold within 1h. I didn't buy it as with that cars You have to check them personally as bill could be huge.

fat-thomas

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or you dont have the money so make do with a £500 wrx with an ebay spoiler

wash those cars faster!!!

Jay Cartay

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Bought my STI Spec D for £5500 from a dealer a few years ago. Wish I'd kept it. Never seen another so cheap.

mjharper

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Got my Hawk WRX for £5200 a year or so back with 57k, then the pistons melted

MrNoisy

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Bollocks is what you talk on a regular basis, do us all a favour and stop posting this sort of unsubstantiated crap.
Widetrack Imprezas remain relatively rare on the market, and for £5200 there had to be something massively wrong with that car - nobody else would be stupid enough to sell it for that money.

Trinity

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Was that the same site that told you Prodrive Pff7's where Inovite Redlines?

Or was it just your brain that muddled it up once again

The Trooper 1815

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Another reason prices go up is because of sh*te like this

https://www.scoobynet.com/1014811-rb...l#post11585038

Tidgy

ouch, cant get decent ones under 6k now no matter the milage

RAF1

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/\ I reckon you could import one from Japan for that kind of money which is what I am looking to do as I cant get one in the UK that takes my liking.

I'm after a V5 / V6 in Blue as stock as possible

Raf

The Trooper 1815

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I have been watching the auctions in Japan. Due to exchange rates and the Canadians buying them up for back door importing into the US prices are going up on Classics.

A Grade 4 Type R off the boat and dock side can hit GBP £10k . Good UK examples are available but you'll have to look hard.

S3LDM

Could not agree more.....!!

jaygsi

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Your right i've noticed the same, watched a classic that had done 100k go for £2800 on gay bay, looked nice but, nothing much been spent on engine, for this time of year thats silly

ScoobyColin1207

Hi, long time since I've been on the forum but I picked up a 2000 classic with 158k miles for 1300 Saturday just gone. All that's been done is front 4 pots and a very quiet back box. Still has turbo heat shield and the plastic cover protecting the bottom of the engine. Car is solid and has full service history I'm the 3rd owner.

jaygsi

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Welcome, keep looking after that engine and you should get plenty more miles out of it.

Don't they all have the turbo heat shield and the plastic cover underneath?

Tidgy

miles is whats killed the price on that one though colin, 158k will put alot of people off.

I bought my Type R with 100k on it, but I know it will need a build sooner or later

Dreep

The prices are all over the place. I kind of worry about the value of my V4 Type R now. Main fact being the mileage at now 117k miles. The engine was rebuilt at 80k. The shell is very very clean especially underneath with just age related minimal marks on the paint work which I plan on sorting anyway.

I think that realistically my car isn't worth as much as I'd like the way it is - mileage being the factor that will put many off even though the condition of the car would prove otherwise. I can't help but see some UK classics with rusty arches, problems and lower spec but lower miles and managing to fetch STi money. Even classic badly modded early WRXs are fetching decent money now.

I personally think the market is just completely all over the place especially with the classics. V1/2 Type RAs seem to be pretty safe and only rising in value each day especially is stock or minimally modded formats. Also V5/6 STis are holding their value pretty well, again the Type RA and Rs. Everything in between seems pretty watered down in terms of value I'd say?

ScoobyColin1207

I just figured any that have been overly tampered with would've lost those shields a long time ago. The mileage is high but belts have been done bang on time and every thing the car has ever needed has been done and documented. The rear arches were both done 10 days before I bought the car. Even has original wheels.

Flat4x4-again

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With the Classic Imprezas, the best, standard *unmodified* cars will go the same way as all the other modern classic car (as Lord Harding says)

Condition, history and 'provenance' is what make the highest prices, not the size of the exhaust or the mods.

Which is different from buying something that is too young to be thought of as a 'nearly classic' and you save money by picking a car that has had all the desirable mods already done?

Norman Dog

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That's got to be the most horrendous set of wheels I've ever seen.

And those arches..