RE: Subaru Impreza Cosworth CS400 | Spotted
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The hatch-shaped Impreza has definitely grown on me over the years and even now I think it represents a good mix of an old-school car but with a much more modern interior compared to a bug-eye or blob-eye.
I don't think I'd stomach the premium to buy a Cosworth though, as epic as a good example may be, it's a massive amount of money for a near-15-year-old Subaru, even considering the fact it wears a Cosworth badge which means it very well may be worth 6 figures in a decade or so...
Anyway, story time with my only experience with one of these...
A friend bought one of these used a few years ago for around £40k.
He's owned half a dozen Subarus and seems to know them fairly well. He'd wanted an Evo for some time but after test-driving an 8 (I think), felt underwhelmed before he eventually bought one of these.
The day after he picked it up, the turbo blew and I believe there were a few other problems. He returned it immediately.
He seemed to enjoy the 30 or so miles he did in it!
It had only done 11k miles but he suspected after it broke that it may have been clocked. Apparently, it had lots of heavily worn parts that you wouldn't expect to wear so much after 11k... Or maybe it was just ragged around the track all of its life? It looks like it's still on the road, having only covered a couple of thousand miles since then and new its next test in a month or so.
Had he not have bought a lemon, he'd have probably made a profit on it.
He's still running an old blob-eye WRX which he's had for a few years now.
Looking through our group chat to find a pic, searching for "Cosworth" brings hundreds of comments we've made to him since he bought it, taking the piss.
I don't think I'd stomach the premium to buy a Cosworth though, as epic as a good example may be, it's a massive amount of money for a near-15-year-old Subaru, even considering the fact it wears a Cosworth badge which means it very well may be worth 6 figures in a decade or so...
Anyway, story time with my only experience with one of these...
A friend bought one of these used a few years ago for around £40k.
He's owned half a dozen Subarus and seems to know them fairly well. He'd wanted an Evo for some time but after test-driving an 8 (I think), felt underwhelmed before he eventually bought one of these.
The day after he picked it up, the turbo blew and I believe there were a few other problems. He returned it immediately.
He seemed to enjoy the 30 or so miles he did in it!
It had only done 11k miles but he suspected after it broke that it may have been clocked. Apparently, it had lots of heavily worn parts that you wouldn't expect to wear so much after 11k... Or maybe it was just ragged around the track all of its life? It looks like it's still on the road, having only covered a couple of thousand miles since then and new its next test in a month or so.
Had he not have bought a lemon, he'd have probably made a profit on it.
He's still running an old blob-eye WRX which he's had for a few years now.
Looking through our group chat to find a pic, searching for "Cosworth" brings hundreds of comments we've made to him since he bought it, taking the piss.
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