Bye Bye Impreza

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Sad day tomorrow, the Impreza is sold.

At 159.5k miles it's been brilliant - expensive but brilliant. If anyone is interested have updated the blog for running costs over three years and 85k miles that I have put on the car. Now that it's just about bankrupted me time to get a diesel for a while

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Nice Turbo 2000, the same colour as mine (I have silver wheels).

Yeah, the cambelt is a killer - fortunately it also had a clutch not long before I bought it. What is a killer though is the amount spent on fuel over those miles which I work out to be £18.5k ish at an average 26mpg and £1.25 per litre over my ownership - Eeek.

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Smollet said:

Fun comes at a cost. Would you really have been happier driving a Mondeo or some such other bland device?

I have no regrets and had plenty of fun I'm actually quite sad to be seeing the car go to a new home. I updated the blog because there are sometimes posts where people ask about the costs of running a Subaru, it was more for a 'well I did and this is what I actually spent'. Never really bothered about the fuel, just added more when it was needed It's only after the event that I've worked it out and thought 'crikey!'

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rb5er said:

Wow, you did more in maintenance in the last year than I have done in the last 4 years on mine.

My every day motor doing almost 30,000 miles a year; that's what it took. Apart from the fuel pump failure (which even with I still managed to drive home from London to Lancashire) the car has been 100% reliable.

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Man maths rules