Peter L

Does anyone know when the STi is going to be launched in the UK?

Cheers
Peter

Greg115

All ive heard is at "The end of the year". It was in the motoring press somewhere, They mentioned November.
Greg

Bagpuss

I also read that the UK version of the STi will be down on power when compared to the Japanese spec. version.

Presumably, this is because the car can't meet emissions regs. and keep the 276bhp power output.

Maybe it will be a case of buying the car in slightly detuned form, and then adding a PPP equivalent to get the power back.

Still, I guess we won't know until IM make an official announcement.

Andy.

Trout...

An official source at Subaru told me only last week that there is no official word! Predicted 1-2 years.

Initial press reports said 12 months after the launch of the WRX. In Japan they are taking orders for cars twice as fast as they can manufacture the 6-speed box and so until they up production of the boxes, or orders fall off, there is no incentive to find new markets.

All adds up to a slightly less than rosy picture.

Trout

Martin Cook

I spoke to a guy from Subaru at the Canary Wharf MotorShow last week, and he said its going into production in Nov 2001 and availible next March.

I'll wait until then until I order mine

Cheers

Peter L

Thanks for that.
My Subaru finance is up in November 2002 - should time nicely for an STi

Peter

tokyo_steve

I don't understand these production delays. When I ordered my STi7 in Japan in Feb the dealer had 450 fully loaded Blue STi saloons. They had smaller numbers of all other models, but their total stock (for the Tokyo Subaru chain) was over 500 STis.

The delivery time was about 3-4 weeks.

Hopefully they won't launch it officially for ages in the UK so the resell price of mine stays up!



Steve

Nico van Steen

Maybe it's detuned because it has to use 95 RON. Power might go up if you use 98 (or 97 in the UK) RON and the ECU adjusts.

Nico