ChownsScooby

I want to buy an Impreza (turbo 4 door) but cant decide what to get. I Have a max budget of £10k. I have seen some UK cars (96 plate) with low mileage and FSH which are tempting but there are also the tempting Jap cars with a bit more go in them. Can anyone offer me some advice or experience that you may have had. All help greatly appreciated
TIA
Rich

Baby Blue

Just one word re Jap cars - Insurance!

MattN

yeah - it cost me exactly £0 more to insure a WRX over a UK turbo!

MichelleWRX1994

Yep, insurance is a pain in the ***, but I bought a Japanese Import and never looked back
The other thing is service history, mine came with a full Japanese history and had only just come to the UK so I kept it up on the UK side......

Personal preference, try each one out, but budget for insurance, always get quotes first.......

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

For £10K you'll get a lot more than a MY96. I got a MY99 Uk Turbo 29000 miles in September for £10600.

Happy hunting

Richard Work

Insurance will be the same or only slightly more than a UK car, you just have to shop around a bit and even then you can probably get a head start right here....

For the age of car you are looking at I would say go for the WRX, you get more power, aircon as standard, folding electric wing mirrors, electric retracting aerial and generally the interior has a better colour scheme.

Servicing can be a problem on an import but there are plenty of specialists out there - Dave West is not far from you in Princes Risborough and he has been servicing my WRX for nearly 3 years! There are a few others I believe in the area too.

Hope this helps,

Richard

p.s. I am biased as I have a 94 WRX that I have had for nearly 3 years, but I never had a problem with it - insurance/servicing/performance. BTW it is also for sale now so let me know if you are interested and you won't have to spend all of that 10K....unles you want to

http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...threadid=88151


[Edited by Richard Work - 4/18/2002 9:50:36 AM]

Brendan Hughes

At least stretch to the My97 with the much better interior.

Tractor

Er, actually its the MY98 that got the better interior..... unless you mean the better seats, which did arrive in MY97........oh I really should get out more....

Ray_li

STi wanna Subaru

Where did you find such a good deal on your car?

Ray

mcactive

yeah? where did you get that good of a deal?

mcactive

oh. bought a my95 now have a my00 also. they updated the look on in late p reg cars so got a updated look. so make sure you like the older looks if you want one. otherwise you'd be like me. not liking the old shape as much. oh and the interior. oh and my mate has a sport for sale if you interested

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Northern Ireland. £200 costs to get there on Easyjet and back on the ferry plus taxi and fuel. It's a great drive back from Stranrar (spelling)