RE: RIP Subaru Impreza
Discussion
Pr1964 said:
micawrx said:
How many Impreza owners would buy a 1 series...? [counts fingers on one hand]
The Majority imprezza owners don't have any money to buy new imprezzasthere is the main problem ....
let alone enough money to buy a fast BMW!
Spent all their dosh on baseball caps to wear in their cars ..
The image has become very dated and without any class the takeup would always be limited to chavs and anyone who didn't have enough dosh for a good looking performance car.
No self-respecting scooby owner would entertain having a BMW at the same time. Why? Because every time he gets in the beemer, and it's not a bad place to sit, he feels like he's been overcharged for the privilege of buying a badge.
You get in a Subaru and you think bloody awful interior, but the moment you start the engine you forget all about it and start wondering how much you can get for your BMW. In fact you prey and hope you meet a BMW on your favourite back road just so you can take the p155!!
Pr1964 said:
The Majority imprezza owners don't have any money to buy new imprezzas
there is the main problem ....
let alone enough money to buy a fast BMW!
Spent all their dosh on baseball caps to wear in their cars ..
The image has become very dated and without any class the takeup would always be limited to chavs and anyone who didn't have enough dosh for a good looking performance car.
Do you have ANY idea of the type of people who own newage (or nice classic) Impreza's today? - Not the utter SH@TE £900 cars you see with baseball cap clad chavs inside.there is the main problem ....
let alone enough money to buy a fast BMW!
Spent all their dosh on baseball caps to wear in their cars ..
The image has become very dated and without any class the takeup would always be limited to chavs and anyone who didn't have enough dosh for a good looking performance car.
Take a look at how much the owners spend on them, and how cherished they are - they often have the money for cars with a 'better' image but wouldnt want one.
(You are clearly one of the closed minded set who buy a car on image, not its capability, character or feel-good factor - this is pistonheads not look like a TW@T in your 1 series white 5 door hatchback with your shirt and shades on......)
ScoobieWRX said:
And the day BMW bring out a good looking performance car is the day i will eat my hat!! They all look the bloody same, just one is a bit bigger than the one before, but they all look the same. Good looking....not in a month of Sundays!!
No self-respecting scooby owner would entertain having a BMW at the same time. Why? Because every time he gets in the beemer, and it's not a bad place to sit, he feels like he's been overcharged for the privilege of buying a badge.
You get in a Subaru and you think bloody awful interior, but the moment you start the engine you forget all about it and start wondering how much you can get for your BMW. In fact you prey and hope you meet a BMW on your favourite back road just so you can take the p155!!
Well said that man No self-respecting scooby owner would entertain having a BMW at the same time. Why? Because every time he gets in the beemer, and it's not a bad place to sit, he feels like he's been overcharged for the privilege of buying a badge.
You get in a Subaru and you think bloody awful interior, but the moment you start the engine you forget all about it and start wondering how much you can get for your BMW. In fact you prey and hope you meet a BMW on your favourite back road just so you can take the p155!!
And rick1.8t
ScoobieWRX said:
And the day BMW bring out a good looking performance car is the day i will eat my hat!! They all look the bloody same, just one is a bit bigger than the one before, but they all look the same. Good looking....not in a month of Sundays!!
No self-respecting scooby owner would entertain having a BMW at the same time. Why? Because every time he gets in the beemer, and it's not a bad place to sit, he feels like he's been overcharged for the privilege of buying a badge.
You get in a Subaru and you think bloody awful interior, but the moment you start the engine you forget all about it and start wondering how much you can get for your BMW. In fact you prey and hope you meet a BMW on your favourite back road just so you can take the p155!!
I really only like the original Imprezza's, the bug eyed one onwards dont do anything for me, I however think its a shame that they have stopped production modern cars seem to becoming more and more Germanic to me, the modern BMW is a shapless ugly blob and a modern BMW owner calling the latest Imprezza ugly is laughable, the old saying pot calling pan burnt arse springs to mind, one thing ill comment on though is the BMW owner seems unable to accept that not everyone loves their cars, its the reason i joined pistonheads, I got fed up with the 'I hate cheap plastics ' brigade on the BMW Forums.No self-respecting scooby owner would entertain having a BMW at the same time. Why? Because every time he gets in the beemer, and it's not a bad place to sit, he feels like he's been overcharged for the privilege of buying a badge.
You get in a Subaru and you think bloody awful interior, but the moment you start the engine you forget all about it and start wondering how much you can get for your BMW. In fact you prey and hope you meet a BMW on your favourite back road just so you can take the p155!!
Subaru made an amazing performance car and the world of performance cars is a smaller place without them.
Rick1.8t said:
Do you have ANY idea of the type of people who own newage (or nice classic) Impreza's today? - Not the utter SH@TE £900 cars you see with baseball cap clad chavs inside.
Take a look at how much the owners spend on them, and how cherished they are - they often have the money for cars with a 'better' image but wouldnt want one.
(You are clearly one of the closed minded set who buy a car on image, not its capability, character or feel-good factor - this is pistonheads not look like a TW@T in your 1 series white 5 door hatchback with your shirt and shades on......)
Exactly. I've had my tastefully modded 20 year old classic for 10 years now. Turn the key to the first notch.....fuel pump primes noisily....turn key again....starter turns over 3 times....engine fires up.....brrrumm...dugga, dugga, dugga. Totally unique and just Take a look at how much the owners spend on them, and how cherished they are - they often have the money for cars with a 'better' image but wouldnt want one.
(You are clearly one of the closed minded set who buy a car on image, not its capability, character or feel-good factor - this is pistonheads not look like a TW@T in your 1 series white 5 door hatchback with your shirt and shades on......)
Pr1964 said:
Honestly I do feel a sad they have stopped production.
But they brought it on themselves.
If the Japanese would only realise they can't design the bodies and farmed that part of the design process out to a company that can probably in "Italy" though the uk also has a few good designers.
They havent stopped production, just stopped bringing them here.But they brought it on themselves.
If the Japanese would only realise they can't design the bodies and farmed that part of the design process out to a company that can probably in "Italy" though the uk also has a few good designers.
They sell a shed load of Imprezas around the world - just not in the UK.
Subarus sold in the UK for an entire year account for something like half a days production in Subarus factories.
We're small fry to them.
No doubt the importers want to use the restricted numbers they can import to bring in cars they can make a decent profit on.
marshall100 said:
There's always the BRZ........?
That is the future now that Subaru and Mitsubishi don't have the WRC to pump sales. Ironically the WRC is sufferint too because they don't have those two manufacturers and a bit of lairyness.I'n pretty sure if they bring out a turbo BRZ then there will be enough tuners to give people a 400bhp+ 1000kg or so item that will take over the mantle.
It will all change again one day and we'll have something equally nutty turbo b
d as the Impreza once was. Guaranteed it will happen.
Subaru won't stay out of rally forever. It will all click back in eventually and we'll all look back on the 90's and 00's as the heyday of Subaru and be falling in love with some new iteratons of the Impreza, only better and more 21st century.
Every manufacturer does it eventually with mixed results admittedly but i reckon Subaru will come back with a bite!!
d as the Impreza once was. Guaranteed it will happen. Subaru won't stay out of rally forever. It will all click back in eventually and we'll all look back on the 90's and 00's as the heyday of Subaru and be falling in love with some new iteratons of the Impreza, only better and more 21st century.
Every manufacturer does it eventually with mixed results admittedly but i reckon Subaru will come back with a bite!!
Sad news however its their own fault. When they originally launched the hatch they didn't do any performance versions and non sold. Subaru should remember what made their image and brand desirability.
The comments about BMW. Has anybody sat inside a recent Impreza and BMW 1 series? They are poles apart, the BMW is, IMO, a far nicer place to be sat. Subaru's have always felt tinny and thin. A M135 will be a far better place to be than any Impreza.
Who gives a flying fk about snow? last year I had zero problems getting about in a 1 Series coupe. If it snows heavily and I can't get off the drive, fantastic as I get a day off work.
So far it is middle of December and no snow.
The comments about BMW. Has anybody sat inside a recent Impreza and BMW 1 series? They are poles apart, the BMW is, IMO, a far nicer place to be sat. Subaru's have always felt tinny and thin. A M135 will be a far better place to be than any Impreza.
Who gives a flying f
k about snow? last year I had zero problems getting about in a 1 Series coupe. If it snows heavily and I can't get off the drive, fantastic as I get a day off work. So far it is middle of December and no snow.
Pr1964 said:
Honestly I do feel a sad they have stopped production.
But they brought it on themselves.
If the Japanese would only realise they can't design the bodies and farmed that part of the design process out to a company that can probably in "Italy" though the uk also has a few good designers. Then maybe we'd still have a Subaru worth driving.
Image Unfortunately For them is v high on the buyers list of important considerations and the market don't lie they couldn't sell em .... The End.....
BMW on the other hand can't keep buyers from thier door even though the majority of their output looks pretty average at least it looks noticeably like a BMW.
A Subaru impreza looked like a generic chavy Japanese car to the vast majority of the uk population most of them wouldn't be seen dead in one. That's not a good image if you're trying to sell anything let alone a sports car.
Maybe they should have had a big chrome S on the bonnet roof and boot and everyone would have then been saying look at that S car go..
Subaru impreza is like having an ugly girlfriend who's great in the sack but you don't want your friends to catch you with her on your arm.
I have just checked your garage, two BMW's - and totally sh"te, boring examples at that! But they brought it on themselves.
If the Japanese would only realise they can't design the bodies and farmed that part of the design process out to a company that can probably in "Italy" though the uk also has a few good designers. Then maybe we'd still have a Subaru worth driving.
Image Unfortunately For them is v high on the buyers list of important considerations and the market don't lie they couldn't sell em .... The End.....
BMW on the other hand can't keep buyers from thier door even though the majority of their output looks pretty average at least it looks noticeably like a BMW.
A Subaru impreza looked like a generic chavy Japanese car to the vast majority of the uk population most of them wouldn't be seen dead in one. That's not a good image if you're trying to sell anything let alone a sports car.
Maybe they should have had a big chrome S on the bonnet roof and boot and everyone would have then been saying look at that S car go..
Subaru impreza is like having an ugly girlfriend who's great in the sack but you don't want your friends to catch you with her on your arm.
With ownership of an X5, a totally pointless vehicle (i mean justify it - try to!) Where i live the X5 has an image of a want to be drug dealer / gangster / bald sales rep in a shirt..... My point being drive what YOU like - if you are worried about image buy a prius.
You cannot understand from a driving / ownership point of view with your choice of car ownership - they are A-B cars with a bit of added luxury and a lot of added cost.
The impreza was at least exciting, and bucked the trend of PC economical characterless cars, i am quite dissapointed they will not continue with them in the uk as would have been a genuine pptential customer in few years...
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