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Old 23 April 2004, 09:09 AM
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Red face Subaru to add little black boxes to their cars!

Whilst in the tea room at work, i noticed a copy of autocar and inside it had a nice picture of a white type R (one of this years ones i think), the story was about how subaru are going to clamp down on people modifying their cars, blowing them up and then removing the modified parts and making fraudulant claims. This little black box will note any changes in performance due to enhancements to the car (above the manufacturers specification) to the likes of exhausts, filters etc, a subaru spokesman said these would be fitted to ALL their cars within 2 years....
Start getting worried peeps!

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Old 23 April 2004, 09:17 AM
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Cant blame them I suppose! but i guess it's only a matter of time before somebody makes a black box bypass box
Old 23 April 2004, 10:26 AM
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NOOOOOOOOOO

tony burns in SIAL shocker

of all people, i would have expected him to have seen the many posts
Old 23 April 2004, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by StickyMicky
NOOOOOOOOOO

tony burns in SIAL shocker

of all people, i would have expected him to have seen the many posts
I was just suprised there was no mention of JDM STI SPEC C!!!

You feeling Ok Tony?
Old 23 April 2004, 11:40 AM
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I thought that Porsche and BMW had been doing this for years now. The net result though i reckon will be that the manufacturers will have to deliver cars as they should be from day one instead of releasing a substandard car followed by 10 "facelifts" (Sound Familiar Subaru? ). Otherwise people would never by the Mk1 version of anything.

Mikey
Old 23 April 2004, 11:54 AM
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LOL @ Mikey:


Agree totally mate.
About time IM stopped fobbing us off with below par overpriced cars, and imported what the japs get at the price the japs pay!!!!

I've been saying so for a long time now.

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Old 23 April 2004, 11:57 AM
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[QUOTE=STi wanna Subaru]I was just suprised there was no mention of JDM STI SPEC C!!! QUOTE]

Now that *is* a SIAL !
Old 23 April 2004, 02:16 PM
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think my next car will be made by someone other than Subaru then.
Old 23 April 2004, 02:22 PM
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I had a black box once iin my car.
Bloody thing, took me months to get that smell of fish out.
:>)
Old 23 April 2004, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Clive the Brave
I had a black box once iin my car.
Bloody thing, took me months to get that smell of fish out.
:>)
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