New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

"Buy a Scooby for 3k"

Says it all really doesn't it!

Insure it for 3k would be more like it!!

BTW I don't read Max Power, I look at the pictures

NS04

PS. The staff at the local branch of WH Smith have complained, something about lewd conduct!

FirebirdUK

What was you "doing" with the magazine to have the staff complain about your lewd conduct?

little'un

iTrader: (9)

Great..that means more little yobs buying a cheap fast car..up goes insurance then

New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

Apparently, I was "enjoying" the pictures a little too much!

Either that or foaming at the mouth at the thought of 19 year old to$$ers getting hold of banged up WRXs, not insuring them and driving them like pr*cks.

Answers on a postcard!

NS04

PhilA

That confirms it then, we now all own chav cars.

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Where have you been for the last 18 months.....

Petem95

Who says they'll insure them?!

I always read the in-the-dock in the local paper and its always full of un-insured drivers being caught; "Wayne from local council estate caught driving with no insurance - 25quid fine and court costs of 50quid"

Hardly puts them off

Scoobs have been classed as chav-mobiles for some time now unfortunately. Always happens when sporty cars get older and cheaper

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Lets hope the big end and holy piston syndrome manifests itself with the lax power brigade.

May start supplying scooby engines...I'm sure api won't mind

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

That's a good point actually They can buy them for £3k, insure them for another £2-3k then thrash the living day lights out of them 'til they blow up That's not as cheap as it sounds

New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

AND they still need money for Mc Ds, and Lizzzie duke stuff...... That's a lot of car stereos!

*gets coat*

NS04

PhilA

NOT reading MAX Power that is for sure.
That explains why everyone at work thinks my RB5 is a chav car, even the guy driving a green calibra (big chav NOVA!) thinks so.

No respect for a decent motor, once it has a buyers guide in Max Power that's it.

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

....and dont forget fuel

I for one hope that as many chavs get hold of them as possible, then destroy them. Will make our mint, well looked after low milers much more desirable.

Bubba po

People who drive without insurance should have their vehicles confiscated and crushed.

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

No. leave them in it

Bubba po

That would be acceptable.

girl-in-a-scoob

People who dont insure their vehicles should be left in the car as it is crushed

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Read post #14 great minds think alike

Daz34

Actually this is gonna happen, kind of.
Police now have the power to confiscate a car that is stopped and believed to have no insurance or MOT, driving licence etc.
The vehicle is taken away & impounded until the driver can supply the correct documentation. If he does then he gets £65 back for his inconvenience.
If say, he isn't insured but then gets insurance, he gets his car back and a c.£250 fine and storage costs.
If he cannot get insurance ie a banned drink driver, then if the car is valued at less than £1k it gets crushed, if more than £1k, it is sold and the police get the money.
Apparently the insurance companies are also gonna plug the loophole that is used by a lot of young drivers ie fully comp on one car, like your Mum's Nissan Micra, allowing you to drive ANY other car third party covered.
I was told by a mate in the West Mids Police that they had a days trial of the scheme but had to knock it on the head after a few hours as they had run out of space to store the cars.
They have now got private contractors on board and are gonna run with this as a major initiative now.

girl-in-a-scoob

Any vehicle has to have its own insurance and also the third party rule is for emergencies only and only for a vehicle that you can prove you have no financial interest in. So you cant drive your partners car on your third party part of the insurance policy.

http://www.17to40.co.uk/content/faq/...ther_cars.html

New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

Yep, a lot of people don't realise this, or conveniently ignore it. i.e. Mr 19 year old getting his dad to insure his WRX when -in point of fact- the dad will most certainly not be the main driver. All insurance polices are based on absolute disclosure and if you start tellling fibs about who is doing the driving then.....

NS04

Gangsta Smurf

great to see everyone is still banging on about Subarus becoming chav motors etc etc etc etc.

The car brand new is just smidge over £20k and to be honest that isn't that much when you consider what the average wage is now and the fact you can get one on a monthly payment system (with balloon) for about £400 per month.

It seems to me that the older scoob drivers are the ones that are giving the marque it's chav image ... simply by the amount of times they post up threads saying how disgusting it is that the older models should be affordable to the masses and that people under the age of 25 are able to purchase 'their' performance saloon.

Car is a cheap performance saloon, young people can now afford to buy and insure one. GET OVER IT!

SJ_Skyline

I see that and I think "£3K track toy..."

Mind you, what will you get for £3K? K-reg with 120K miles on the clock that will go bang as soon as it goes past 5000rpm?

Gangsta Smurf

At least someone else sees sense. Fed up to the back teeth of the cardigan crew on this site complaining about the marque getting a chav image. It's a mass produced car for **** sake, people are going to modify it in a whole host of different ways. Just all goes together to turn the Impreza into one of the most fabled cars of the decade. Part of history!

Moaning old fecking gits!

PhilA

[QUOTE= So you cant drive your partners car on your third party part of the insurance policy.[/QUOTE]

Why not? That page does not say that.
i do not own my partners car therefore I should be able to drive it?

Phil

MikeCardiff

iTrader: (2)

I can see a lot of chavs running out and buying them, then a lot of chavs getting insurance quotes, going 'oh ****' and selling them again pretty quickly.

And if they can afford the insurance, it wont leave them anything left for petrol !

As for chavs not having insurance - consider - the average chav lives in a crap area or estate, full of other thieving chavs and scum - reckon they wont have thie £3K car insured against theft ???!!!

Why do you think most chavs drive B reg Novas that are worth £50 ?

Gangsta Smurf

Mike ... I bought my WR1 when I was 21. Brand new.

I paid £4015 insuring myself fully comprehensively on my own policy.

The car was bought by me, with my own money, which I earnt from my job.

I regularly wear Nike TNs and Baseball caps.

.... I know at least 50 other Subaru owners who drive the top end STI models and are all under 23.

Your argument is cr@p and not in line with the topic!

StickyMicky

the black front grill on the red wrx in the main picture

is my standerd one

swapped it for a bottle of NF a few years ago

DaveD

iTrader: (2)

Hmm, my k-plate now has over 140,000 miles, and regularly sees 7k rpm.


[Rapidly runs to find some wood to touch]

Don't care what the image is - it's still a scoob.

cookstar

iTrader: (6)

Totally agree mate, brought my scoob when i was 23, not in the same league as yours mind, but still had to work hard to both buy and insure and mod it.

I think its maybe the fact that "chavs" are the only group of people not protected with political correctness these days, so they are the only group that can be constantly refered to as scum. etc

I however take a different view to what a chav is, to me if you wear baseball caps etc, does not automatically make you a council dwelling scumbag. Mearly someone that has different fashion tastes to the majority of "perfect" Scooby owners that post on here.

My 2p's worth

Cookie

ScoobyDoo555

I'm glad to see the usual Scoobynet book of "bollix" has been opened to the chapter titled "Pompousness"...........

Some of these posts really make me chuckle. If you REALLY care about the image of your car, sell it. Simple. OR get over the fact that anybody who can buy the car is entitled to have one. I've posted this before (and suprisingly nobody commented about it - even with the amount of over-active opinions out there!) - there's alot of people (especially on this BBS) who can't handle the fact that their once percieved as exclusive car, is now available to the masses. It always has been available, but it was a well-kept secret Well, get over it.

Here's why -

There have been some posts recently about the hidden running costs of these cars. Age doesn't come into it - no matter how old the car is, these are expensive motors to run/feed. I know a fair few people who've had to chop their Scoob in for something else because they couldn't afford to run it.

So what - there's an article in Max Power about how to buy a cheap Scoob. Most of the buying public happen to be schoolboy teenagers who can get hold of the "topshelf" magazines Even those who are old enough to get hold a Scoob - god forbid, but there's a strong chance that within 6-12 months, the car will be written off anyway, thus reducing the amount decent examples available. THEREFORE, helping with your residuals!!!

The problem is with the owners, not the car.......


Dan

PS "Well said Gangsta!!!"