Help please ......not much experience with Subarus

[VXRPhantom]

My mate is thinking of purchasing this......I know it is not to a lot of peoples taste, but do you feel price is fair? How can you tell if it genuinly is a WRX STI?

V8's are my thing but I said I would ask fellow PH's. Please don't flame his choice of car, but would appreciate genuine feedback..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUBARU-IMPREZA-WRX-STI-260-B...

[maffy32]

i always thought the sti had a red top engine and think it shoud be red suspension as well but i may be wrong

[Jasey@]

You should ask on scoobynet.co.uk.

Mind you - there will be some merciless comments on that car - but you should get some sensible answers .

[Scooby72]

Oh man that is hilarious!!

[ScoobieWRX]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

That's definately a NO!!!

[GravelBen]

maffy32 said:

i always thought the sti had a red top engine and think it shoud be red suspension as well but i may be wrong

Red top engine only from Ver.3 onwards IIRC, and ad says it has HKS suspension (which is "really hard" ).

It really is a disgustingly molested car though, truly vile. Possibly even verging on heinous.

[Animal]

That is uglier than an ugly thing! I'm guessing your mate lives near (or would be willing to travel to) Coventry? How about this thing instead?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2009...

[dern]

I quite like that

[GravelBen]

Animal said:

That is uglier than an ugly thing! I'm guessing your mate lives near (or would be willing to travel to) Coventry? How about this thing instead?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2009...

Much better!

[VXRPhantom]

Thanks for the advice.... I have convinced him to leave well alone...

[Gnits]

As already mentioned have a look on Scoobynet - there used to be a list of engine codes to check against which is very useful when someone has a WRX with STI badges on it!!

[Vixpy1]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[CJ.OK]

It looks like some poor child has been made to drive around in that thing - Poor little thing it will grow up with a complex!

Saying that it would easily fetch more than "£20k" at a show

[Hol]

GravelBen said:

Red top engine only from Ver.3 onwards IIRC,

Ben,
Your memory is good. Its the ver 1.5 engine.


Its basically a £2000 boggo 260bhp (Ver 1.0 engine) STI with the body kit slapped on and nicer seats.

It don't float my boat though.

[mneame]

Hol said:

GravelBen said:

Red top engine only from Ver.3 onwards IIRC,

Ben,
Your memory is good. Its the ver 1.5 engine.


Its basically a £2000 boggo 260bhp (Ver 1.0 engine) STI with the body kit slapped on and nicer seats.

It don't float my boat though.

First red tops were in the 555 sti. Which i think is a ver 2 is it not?

That one in the link is a real heap of ****!