Subaru to kill off WRX sti in the uk this year !!!!
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Dunno if any of you guys have spotted this regards subaru no longer selling wrx sti and impreza in the U.K by the end of this year.
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/subaru/impreza/61907/...
CaptainSlow said:
never thought of looking in there I'm told that because there is so much unsold stock in the UK they are going to stop importing any more Impreza/WRX for a couple of years or so until current stocks have significantly depleted, and then they'll start the whole process again.
Where the real truth lies is still a mystery and no doubt we'll all find out sometime in the future.
IMHO if they weren't so greedy asking silly prices for cars that still aren't great in the interior department and priced these cars at a level that represented good value but with an emphasis on you paying for the engineering rather than a bland a still not so great cobbled together interior they may well have shifted in greater numbers.
Methinks they were over confident that the UK public would pay such high prices for just engineering, and i think ultimately £-Yen currency rates didn't play quite such a big part in their initial pricing. If it did why are they now able to offer them at considerably lower prices than originally billed. Same stock...Similar currency rates.....Bit late now Subaru.
If they'd put them out initially at todays pricing they may well have sold considerably more cars and we might not be speculating about the impending doom of the Impreza/WRX in the UK.
Where the real truth lies is still a mystery and no doubt we'll all find out sometime in the future.
IMHO if they weren't so greedy asking silly prices for cars that still aren't great in the interior department and priced these cars at a level that represented good value but with an emphasis on you paying for the engineering rather than a bland a still not so great cobbled together interior they may well have shifted in greater numbers.
Methinks they were over confident that the UK public would pay such high prices for just engineering, and i think ultimately £-Yen currency rates didn't play quite such a big part in their initial pricing. If it did why are they now able to offer them at considerably lower prices than originally billed. Same stock...Similar currency rates.....Bit late now Subaru.
If they'd put them out initially at todays pricing they may well have sold considerably more cars and we might not be speculating about the impending doom of the Impreza/WRX in the UK.
Old news 
Subaru will never import this car to the UK again. The £450 a year tax and fuel costs just don't stack up against the perceived market position of the car, and nor does the current price. Like Mitsubishi, they may even cease production of this model all together...
Juicy fast cars will increasingly become the preserve of wealthier individuals owing to fuels costs etc. Those same individuals wont, at least on mass, buy one of these...
-P
Subaru will never import this car to the UK again. The £450 a year tax and fuel costs just don't stack up against the perceived market position of the car, and nor does the current price. Like Mitsubishi, they may even cease production of this model all together...
Juicy fast cars will increasingly become the preserve of wealthier individuals owing to fuels costs etc. Those same individuals wont, at least on mass, buy one of these...
-P
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