Jamz3k

In the same way that an Escort/Serria Cosworth is?

I love seeing Impreza's on the road especially well looked after models but seeing a Cosworth or the likes going down the road is just pure ****.

scoobian

classics will be classics
not sure about the lower performance later models.........

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

once all the chavs have smashed up and/or ruined the scabby ones there is half a chance that a well looked after unmolested example may well end up a classic, but in reality how many unmolested examples are there?

All the time there are third party insured, unserviced, massive VTA BOV'd examples with barry bodykits and vinyl'd up sheds hooning about over the speed limit then the image and reputation is and will remain, in tatters.

RA Dunk

yup they will especially models like the RA type R and the holy grail the 22B

joey_turbo

iTrader: (26)

I'd like to think so.
It's a classic to me, up there with the cossies and Lancia Delta's for sure.

Jamz3k

see i would be the same opinion as you but its hard for something to be a classic when there is so many tatty cars ruining the image of an Impreza.

RA Dunk

lol, im liking you (in a non sexualy way off course) more by the minute

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

Thats because I'm on typeRA.co.uk

GC8

I have a completely standard and unregistered C-Series 'Wagon. I havent seen another for a good while...

Chris.B

iTrader: (4)

Almost bang on what I thought when I saw the thread title.
My farther-in-law was telling me last year about how him and a mate used to buy Escort RS Turbo's for £150-300 a time, they would buy 2 or 3 to make an A1 example. They were killed off quickly due to the price... HOW much are they now!?
The classic will go the same way too... Eventually!

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

Simon, thats the kind of car that I'm talking about and they're becoming more and more rare by the day.

GazTheHat

Not until the wheat has been seperated from the chaff.
- Or should that be wheat from chav.

ginger321

what age do cars need to be to qualify for classic car insurance or am I thinking about road tax

farmerwrx

my type r is standard except for the wheels and back box but i still have the originals tho ;-)

AshMurc

the 22B surely is on the brink or perhaps already is. Remember the article in EVO a few months back? They seem to concider it a classic rather then just an icon (which i think the classics already are... although an icon for what is debatable!).

Jamz3k

the only problem i can see with the impreza being a classic, is that there is so many variations. I wouldn't consider a UK Turbo 2000 a classic car but i would an early STi.

Ryo

Well, I admit to buying "Practicle Classics" a mag about buying and restoring classic cars.

In the back pages is a price guide by make and model, then condition. Under Subaru they list the SVX and Impreza 94-00, so by that they are already seen by some as classics!

Im sure many of their die-hard MG readers and the like would strongly disagree, but they are listen in the mag every month.

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

Dont forget the 555's


There seem to be plenty cars being broken and sold as parts at the moment so the should be getting rarer by the day.

sandyRS16i

iTrader: (13)

As a Ford person, I think the scoob will eventually be a classic car, just like cossie's & RS turbo's etc. Once they were all thrashed too, but some remain. With the impreza it will deffo be a case of LTD edition models, well cared for cars in great condition. The lower spec like WRX/UK turbo will only be a classic if its original, low miles & mint, like your lower base spec escorts for example. Dont see this happening tho for another 5+ years tho

lordharding

iTrader: (1)

Yes they will defently beome classics with cars up to 16tears old now still on the roads

The chavs will smash up/destroy /not maintain/let get crushed/break up for parts etc many of them in the next 5 years and move onto something else and leave the unmolested orignal examples for the purists allready at the
NBO in the last 3 years we have seen more atention to detailing and orignalily and they will become the clasiics of the future although many others will be modded to death and then pass through the ranks to the chavs who woll drive through Halfrauds and stick any old tat on them then resparay them with cans and put silly chrome bits on them :

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

You do see modded RS cars with the right bits and using the right people making strong money though. If its been done correctly and the car is mint, properly "molested" cars can also be classics.