Show me your Impreza wagon

[trails]

That is no sleeper, it looks far too naughty


I have an almost finished MY00 wagon project that I’ve had since 2003 and spent far too much money on and just purchased at 04 Forester XT as a bike wagon. Paid £1100 for it and probably spent three times that in the last three months. Doh.

[Pupbelly]

Now on 166,000+ miles and my pride and joy. Love it to bits, daily driver too.

Edited by Pupbelly on Friday 27th March 10:13

[Scooobydont]

I upgraded from the blobeye I previously posted up, I think it is the first time I have bought a second car of the same kind, love them:

[Skyedriver]

Always looked at the "wagon" as lacking the space of a proper estate and lacking the charisma/image of the rally car.
Am I wrong?
Maybe a Forester is more what I need to replace a Volvo 940 Estate, need to fit two dog cages in the rear, nothing else comes close, not even an XC90.

[R12many]

It's the best of both worlds in my opinion. Not driven a Forester STI but the XT drives nothing like an Impreza unless really modified. I bought an XT hoping for a big Impreza and was very disappointed. Went back to a wagon.

[edgeychris]

[R12many]

^ very nice. Was your car previously in Devon/Cornwall?

[philpalmer]

rossub said:

+1

I spent about the same time looking and also gave up.

Ive seen that one in Plymouth and it was an absolute dog. :-)
Being a fan of Wagons, I walked round Plympton looking for this dealer. I was disappointed. The interior was just a mess and the car had two flat tyres. It was a pretty ropey looking car sales places with all the vehicles parked on a hill and a portacabin at the top. Luckily there was no bugger around. What a disappointment.

Edited by philpalmer on Thursday 9th April 00:26

[boma]

Suppose better get my PPP Hawkeye up.

It arrived wearing 18" Charcoal OZ/Prodrive P1 alloys, as well as OEM wheels in the boot. The P1s look amazing and add outright grip, but are notably heavy, add a lot of NVH, and car feels much lighter on it's toes with the OEM 17s, albeit lets go sooner. I prefer the sleeper look of OEM too.

OEM suspension setup isnt great, and sagged 10mm F 20mm rear with age. Im going route of Meister R ZetaCRD, adj rear ARB, and debating the Whiteline (A)ALK versus a set of Forester LCA mounts. Just over 100K, and I have small bits of the brown rot to attend to around rear subframes and underneath rear archncorners. But the PPP is a lovely driveable engine package, that doesnt really warrant spending on upgrades for my use,.would much rather fettle the suspension

Edited by boma on Thursday 7th May 19:42

[Rich_AR]

Picked up this wagon last weekend. I wasn't intending on buying a Subaru, but I wanted something cheap, AWD (I live in the mountains), wagon/estate with a reasonably sized boot (for tip runs and carting the wet dog around) and of course a manual gearbox, which basically gave me a very limited choice.

Seems these are pretty rare over here in Canada of this vintage (06-07 model), I could only find one other 'hawkeye' WRX wagon for sale at the time in the whole of Canada. I did a 500 mile round trip to get this one (which is nothing by Canadian standards). It was optioned with cruise control and heated seats. The car is very original and unmolested, even down to the floor mats and radio. That must be rare for a WRX in most places!



and up on my 2-post lift:



Needs a new rear silencer at point as one of the hangers is rather corroded and a few bushes here and there, but other than that, it's in pretty decent nick for the harsh conditions it's lived in and everything an all the button work! It's even got a block heater hardwired in.

Edited by Rich_AR on Tuesday 12th May 17:06