budd

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there can't be anything much faster for less than £50K ? 0>60 3.6sec!!!
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/4...STI-CS400.html

hostagekilla

Mmmm sweet.....Me want!!

Jden

saw this in EVO magazine last month - looks pretty cool - bit pricey though!

ScoobySteve69

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The interior`s nice.

Gigsy

Me too - should be a pretty special car... just wish that they were making more than 75 of them and that I had a spare £50k kicking around! ;o)

budd

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really nice thing but is it worth nearly as much as a Nissan GTR?

BULLITT

But this won't cost as much to repair or run as a GTR does...if you recall the £13,000 repair bill for a 3mph bump...

carl swailes

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want one............. get the house sold lol

coops78

Nice car but i could have a much better one if i had 50k to spend...

steve jackson

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With a **** over stated dash, I guess you could reach those figures with a lot less money spent inclucing cosworth pistons,rods and cosmetic gaskets.

Steve

turboturner

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'Big Arfs' would slay it plus i'm sure he paid less than 50k

budd

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What warranty came with Big Arfs? I guarantee it won’t be as comprehensive as that found on a new Subaru, the CS400 could actually be a cheap car to own (if you can stump up the cash in the first place) think about it, the rarity of will keep the depreciation to a minimum and you can thrash it to death and Subaru pick up the bill for any blow ups or mechanical woes.
All I need now is £50K, there’s always something that spoils a sweet deal.

turboturner

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Still rather have the 'Gtr' any day!!

bigarf

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to be honest i do like the new sti hatch as i was going to buy one,and i love the new cosworth one too.but the 50k price tag is just stupid for something that can be made very easily from a standered sti for just over half the cost.on the other hand when you mention warranty, for the spec i have on mine and the price i paid for it,then i would go for mine any day of the week and if anything did go wrong i would have plenty of change left in my pockets to repair it for the next 10 years before i got to the cost of the new cosworth one.

budd

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your quite right 50K is a crazy amount, and the only reason they’ll sell them all is the exclusivity of the badge after all only 75 are available, they’ll sell to people with more money than sense, Subaru aren’t the only ones to do it either Nissan did or do (I’m not sure if it was a LE) a Nismo version GTR at an eye watering £120K (JDM only I believe) now that is a stupid amount and IIRC it’s no more powerful than the std one, at least Subaru have cranked the power up a bit on the CS.
Personally I’d prefer yours and use some of the money left over on a diesel run around, best of both worlds.

turboturner

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The Nismo Vspec edition is a stupid crazy price ! And if you were to buy all the nismo parts to fitted to the Vspec plus a standard Gtr it would cost you even more than the 120k price tag! The seats are something crazy like 14k a pair and the brakes are over 30k!! Like a Gtr is standard anyway!

dunx

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And brakes wear out and need replacing....

Ekkk !

+1 vote for Arf's new toy, and if anybody wants a DPC 400 for £25,000 the number is...... 075000

LOL

dunx

DaveSTI350

Mine cost a lot less than that!!

And mine looks better me thinks..

dunx

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Dave, us dinosaurs have had it....

Even RCMS are doing a hatch !

LOL

dunx

budd

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all the main tuners will do something for the hatch after all it needs all the help it can get, but no amount of bolt ons can change the fact it's not been a success for Subaru, you can tell this by how few are on the roads. There is a silver lining to this however, at least it will keep demand high (and therefore prices) for used 'proper' shaped saloons.

dunx

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Even I did the maths on a hatch project last autumn, but £7K for a cheap hatch, £3K for a body-kit and £2K for a proper cage left me with mine as the 400 bit....

Sadly not sure about the job situation, so chicken'd out.

dunx

budd

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2K for a cage!! my FIA / MSA cage from OMP is costing £400 delivered, unless your plan is to build a WRC car a 10 point bolt in is fine.

dunx

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It was to be a project, so a pukka WRC look-a-like by a Midlands drag car builder....

budd

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I guess we’ve got a little off topic, which was a discussion of the Cosworth Impreza in general terms, but I suppose there are parallels, why would anyone want to spend 50K on a soup’ed up Impreza ? why would anyone want to replicate a WRC car and not rally it? I think in the first instance it’s probably about owning a rare car and feeling smug about it despite it’s outrageous cost, the second instance maybe a rally wannabe ??? I guess it’s all about image. Personally I think £50K for a Impreza hatch is a joke but I’m sure all the 75 cars will be snapped up by people who should really know better and be buying a 1yr old Porsche 911, as for the rally wannabes prepared to spend £2K on a WRC ‘style’ roll cage in a road car, well it’s much like the £50 sticker kits on Ebay , it may look like a WRC car but it never will be.