finalzero

Wow, what a week (or 8 days in fact).

Managed to blag a business trip to Australia after being involved in a new project and was even better than I expected as I thought it would be another typical business trip where I only get to see the inside of a plane, airport, hotel and the office.

What I ended up experiencing totally blew me away. I assumed I was visiting one of my companies offices in Sydney however I got some surprises when I turned up at the plush office on Monday.. here is a teaser of what I was greeted with:



Even though we were on business we had a great time and got to see the sights. Subaru were great hosts and really know how to treat their guests, they had us driven around in a limo for a couple of days

The work ethic is fantastic in Sydney, very similar to that of Japan I reckon but probably to do with the way Subaru treat their employee's in the Sydney Head Office - people generally work late and at weekends as well. I think its due to the effort Subaru put into developing their staff (everyone had laptops, plush working environment and everyone drove Subaru company cars).

Scooby's are massive in Australia, one of THE most popular cars; Most of the company cars were Subaru Liberty's (aka Legacy's) and the car I was given was a nice 2007 edition Liberty wagon in gleaming white I was shacked up in the Crown Plaza Hotel, not a bad place, not quite 4 star as they say it is however view was great, had a big dual carriage way next to us, every other car was the burble of a subaru and the odd R34 GTR popping a dump valve - They are really big on their tuning scene over there, not like the ****ty barry boy stuff we have here but proper street racers.

I enquired about the 2008 model however they were very hush hush about it for the time being. A few of the staff are getting the new model but I think its just the standard non-turbo models. They wouldn't give me any information on the STi model however I was given a scan of a Oz car mag that detailed the new 08 STi model:

2008 STi

Here are some more pics:


http://www.vurso.com/personal/images.../subaru-hq.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...ubaru-hq-2.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...-3rd-floor.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...ip/scooby1.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...ip/scooby2.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...ip/scooby3.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images.../skyline-1.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images.../skyline-3.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images.../skyline-4.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...y-harbor-1.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...y-harbor-2.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...ist-like-1.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images/oz-trip/harbor.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...ra-house-1.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...manlybeach.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images...each-diner.jpg
http://www.vurso.com/personal/images/oz-trip/ute.jpg

Enjoy!

Fz

Probein

APPARENTLY Subaru's are seen as lesbian's cars in Australia... Just thought I'd throw that into the mix.

I'm heading out there myself in June for 2 weeks... I love lesbians.

finalzero

Lol

They are big in Sydney due to the head office being there. I recommend you checkout docklands, they have an amazing show room down there.

Enjoy your trip!

Trout

iTrader: (1)

Having spent time on the Gold Coast I didn't see many lesbians driving Scoobs...

...unless they were trapped in mens bodies!!

bluenosewrx

iTrader: (2)

nice,

Here is me looking at the skyline pics and not seeing the car.lol

Mac

finalzero

Haha yeah one regret, I didn't get to snap any cars out there, my digital camera wasn't working correctly so I only managed to get a handful of photo's :s

MTayler

Went to Oz in Jan this year and is indeed a fantastic place, did see a lot more Scoobs and Nissans in Sydney compared to Gold Coast.
However did see Elvis at Gold coast ( Hard rock cafe ) so does that count for anything .