Tchort

saw a LHD scoob today, never seen one before and just wondered how many there are in the UK.

Also why would you get a LHD instead of an import from Japan ?

greasemonkey

Doubt anyone's keeping score. It's a given that a few trickle over from Europe and I daresay if you went to Prodrive's car park on any day you'd see more than a handful.

Erm, what makes you think you can't get Japanese imports in LHD form? Think virtually all the "special" STi's are available to order new from Subaru in left hand drive format if you want them.

As to why you'd want one, can think of a few reasons. If the car had a UK registration you could have seen a member of the British Armed Forces with a car purchased in Europe. You could have seen the driver of an LHD rallycar who doesn't like to constantly swap back from one side to the other when in his daily transport. You could simply have seen someone who fancied a cheap European import and wasn't too worried which side the steering wheel was on.

AndyC_772

iTrader: (2)

That sounds very unlikely. I thought the most interesting models were JDM only - Japanese Domestic Market. The Japanese drive on the left, so why would LHD versions ever be manufactured?

greasemonkey

Lol, you reckon?

Correct.

Here's a little clue.

GC8

In order to understand Greasemonkey's answer youd need an insight into Japanese culture/society. Virtually all Mercedes and Porsche cars imported into Japan are LHD even RHD models are available which meet our usually stricter TA requirements. The Japanese enjoy the 'kudos' associated with a rare left hand drive car; a tan on your left arm only (arm out of the window...) is very fashionable...

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

I have got a LHD Impreza and I drive it in England soemtimes.

You should come oer to europe there are hundreds of them

Maybe the europeans say oooh look a RHD Impreza you don't see many of those do you why would anyone want a RHD impreza

Taomyn

I suppose us LHD owners could in theory out number the RHD ones (possibly have to exclude those outside Europe, maybe not), so we could be classed as the "norm"?

I wonder what the statistics are?

wrxtankie

As they will with mine this weekend m8

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Well you will be one of 3 then M8 as Richard has a DBM MY00 and Andy has an MY04 STi! maybe we could just put the 3 odd ones out in a corner by themselves and ridicule you

BMWhere?

I have a LHD STi and I'm from England


Funny how this thread seems to be attracting all the ex-pats!