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So how and why/where did the connection of a Subaru Impreza and the cartoon character Scooby-Do start????
I gather/guess it may have been started in the South East or England, as rhyming slang??
Does anyone have any info on where and when this started??

Bug Eyed Peas

Found this
https://www.scoobynet.com/wanted-ans...ght=scooby+doo

Anthony

*AL*

Cheers for that but i was asking where and when it started??

pslewis

The first people to buy the Impreza in any numbers in the early 1990's were divers.

They would park their Imprezas along the harbour wall and go out diving.

These cars were strange looking in those days, with that scoop and suchlike.

People would walk along the Harbour wall and ask the Harbour Master who owned all these strange cars .... it was in Cornwall, and in that Cornish accent he replied, "They belong to the Scoobie Divers"

With chinese whispers this became the 'Scooby Drivers' ...................

As the people returned home from their holidays and saw an Impreza they would say, "Theres one of those Scoobies we saw on holiday!!"

Hence it spread throughout the nation ... and, eventually, throughout the world.

I know it to be true!

After that is is very easy to see how the link could be made to Scooby-Doo!!

Pete

Bat-Fink

*AL*

Sounds like a bedtime story Pete!

Bug Eyed Peas

Cheers Pete, you learn something new everyday.

Anthony

pete higham

back in the 90's a scooby was an xr2

Crosstalk

There's a film called Used Cars (IIRC) with Kurt Russell, and apparently he calls Subaru Scooby Doo in there. These would not have been Imprezas, they would have been the oddball models first imported around then.

Then, Performance Car was the first UK magazine to really pick up on the Impreza, back in the good old days when it was very much a little known phenomenon amongst the general public, and they used the term - not constantly, though.

This must have been about 96/97, when Imprezas had been coming into the country for about 2/3 years, and it was only really the motorsport community and fans that were well aware of them. You'd see plenty Impreza turbos at rallies and so on, but they were not that common on the roads, and the scooby wave happened far more often back then (almost 100% of impreza drivers would wave at each other!). Imports were almost non existent back then too.

Ah, fond memories of my first one - first of the 97MY, registered late 96, the year it all came together with decent seats at last. The wheels were still the awful blobby 15" things though, but mine had Speedline Safaris on it.

AllanB

I've got a magazine at home that dates back to the early seventies and it makes refeernce to Scoobie in that so its probably been around a fait time but only got popular as Subarus have increased in popularity



AllanB

Dr Who

Its rhyming slang used by dealers when farmers were the only people to buy Subaru's

Elmer Fudpucker

no it ain't,it comes from some film with Richard Dreyfus and John Goodman where one refers to the other as a ''second hand scooby-doo salesman''

either way I have never and will never call a Subaru a Scooby-*******-doo

Crosstalk

That'll be the film I'm confusing with the Kurt Russell one.

And I share your pain at referring to our cars as a stupid big brown cartoon dog...

rabskyline

is sounds like "call my bluff" to guess who is talking ****e ! funny though and i did often wonder but i have my reservations about the cornwall divers though ! so i would say bluff ! well maybe

WREXY

In oz no one refers to the subaru impreza as a scooby. They call them rex.

speedking

I know who first called the Impreza a pretzl. It was my friend's wife

The Chief

I knew them as that - simply because they sounded similar - Scooby Doo (XR2)

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

thats alright, a mate of mines wife, said (as of me just passing my driving test) "are you driving that ibruiser thing yet?"

i was on the floor and she nearly started bealing!