I am seeing more and more Impreza's in my area. They seem to be the new golf - but surprisingly I am seeing a lot of non turbo's in the blob eye shape and 90% of all scoobs in my area are women drivers [including a few STI's]. Having a quick look at the subaru.co.uk site, I see the car is from £14000. Includes AWD a/c etc etc.....

Anyone else noticed a rise in the less desirable models !?

 

Yes.

There are 6,000+ Subarus being sold each year in the UK. I think people are realising they are a superb car, whatever model you get.

 

Funny that, just this week I was thinking that I was seeing a lot of newish silver non-turbo cars. Almost all the ones I'm seeing are silver, for some reason, but there is no doubt that there are a lot more of them about than used to be the case. The last while is probably the first time I remember going out and seeing more "normal" Imprezas rather than turbos on the road. Perhaps there is a good deal or insurance offer or something on them at the minute? Just when I'm looking at getting rid of mine because their customer service is so bad!!

 

red car syndrome !! as in if you get a red car all of a sudden they are everywhere !!

 

I don't know though, I've had Subarus for over 6 years but I've never really noticed a lot of the non-turbo versions about until very recently.

 

Not sure why the less disirable models sell to be honest? Poor performance coupled with bad mpg doesnt bode well in a very competitve market place.

We looked at one for Emma a year ago. Test drove it and the performance was very mild. Might still have got a sale but for the poor economy the salesman stated we would see.

Shame though it was a nice car just couldnt justify it against a new A3 personally.

Gary