Is there a stigma attached to driving a subaru impreza...

cranfordmike

..what do you think.?

helimachoptor

I've a horse outside

biko

Have you been stigmatised OP?

Cookie_Monster

They're like civics

old people and scumbags

shawnee

Only if you look like the guy in the Rubberbandits video :D:D

super_furry

Is that you Fitzy?

Absurdum

cranfordmike wrote: »

..what do you think.?

who cares once it's a proper one, not a fake turbo/WRX/STi

Atlantic Dawn

Once it's as it left the factory it's to be admired. Steer clear of the versions that are muppetised by their owners.

stevenmu

biko wrote: »

Have you been stigmatised OP?

Did anyone else read that in Joe Duffy's voice?

To the OP, if you mean the newest ones, then there isn't. I think the older ones are fine, as long as they're not a basic model with a giant exhaust.

shawnee

super_furry wrote: »

Is that you Fitzy?

No !! fitzy drives a mitzy >:D

Hotwheels

I think the older ones are fine, as long as they're not a basic model with a giant exhaust.

A Scooby is not a Scooby without a Scud Missile Type exhaust...:D

gbee

I think the 4th post summed it up nicely!

Anan1

OP - You need to ask the people whose opinion you worry about.

cranfordmike

I ask because I was thinking of buying an impreza, 03 - 04 ish (not replica). Looking for a bit of performance. Not sure if I can pull off the impreza though.. I keep thinking i will need to get a pair of air max, joint, goldy lookin chain etc.. I could be wrong.

Anan1

cranfordmike wrote: »

Not sure if I can pull off the impreza though.. I keep thinking i will need to get a pair of air max, joint, goldy lookin chain etc.. I could be wrong.

Either grow a pair or resign yourself to 318Ci land.;)

homer90

Who gives a fook. You want it, then drive it;)

The blobeye is the better looking model since the gc8 classic. Iv had 3 in my day, would love to have one now for 'playing in the snow'

Muckie

I drive a 95 Impreza estate, standard japanese import model.

Don't get any stick (i'm an auld fella 35 and have the kid in the back :pac:)

Don't mind the head bangers who'll want to race you.

Check out www.isdc.ie you migh even pick up a well minded one

there. Good luck. Great car they are too, have mine 6 years.

Biglad

Depends how you are planning on "using" the performace you are after. Enough boy racers around Donegal. I like impreza's and the whole rallying history that comes with them, unfortunately to many d*ckheads going round in them giving these nice machines a bad name, don't blame the car...:D

245

If you can't fit your head in the exhaust and other drivers can see more than the top of your head when you're behind the wheel then you're probably fine

Regular use of 4th and 5th gears helps also

Sids Not

They're very popular with the un-married mothers around Bray for some reason...

Cunning Alias

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

They're like civics

old people and scumbags

This pretty much sums up the general opinion from the people I talked to. I was looking at getting one last time I changed car. You would be amazed at the amount of standard models that have the full wrx kits. Did they sell them from the show room like this?

I still love them and ill be looking into them again next time I change.

Cartel Mike

245 wrote: »

If you can't fit your head in the exhaust and other drivers can see more than the top of your head when you're behind the wheel then you're probably fine

Regular use of 4th and 5th gears helps also

lol and don't have 3 other muppets in the car eating McDonalds circling the town street 15 times thinking that all the young uns are admiring your car.
Even donegal has moved on from this.

pajo1981

The estate version looks respectable?

Gary ITR

A member on here has one and it's awesome beyonf belief. It sets off car alarms when it drives by and goes like a scalded cat, I'd have it in a heartbeat and to hell with the begrudgers

fonecrusher1

I couldn't give a fiddlers what people think of what im driving. When i got my subaru legacy twin turbo i was the target of a fair bit of friendly (slightly jealous) mockery where i worked. Are you trying to be a 'boyracer' & other such silly remarks.:rolleyes: I was 27 at the time not 37. I just responded with a sort of whats the matter lads?, left your balls in your wive's handbags?? type comment as a comeback.

If you want it, get it & ignore the begrudgers.

Lex Luthor

cranfordmike wrote: »

I keep thinking i will need to get a pair of air max, joint, goldy lookin chain etc.. I could be wrong.

:rolleyes:God help us...!!!

Anan1

A standard WRX in the right colour with the original round headlights and exhaust doesn't stand out much?

cranfordmike

Cartel Mike wrote: »

Even donegal has moved on from this.

I'm a Dub living in Dub, sorry to disapoint. I do like Donegal though. Agree with post #25, might borrow that comeback

ShadowHearth

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

I couldn't give a fiddlers what people think of what im driving. When i got my subaru legacy twin turbo i was the target of a fair bit of friendly (slightly jealous) mockery where i worked. Are you trying to be a 'boyracer' & other such silly remarks.:rolleyes: I was 27 at the time not 37. I just responded with a sort of whats the matter lads?, left your balls in your wive's handbags?? type comment as a comeback.

If you want it, get it & ignore the begrudgers.

fecking A+

I thought subarus were not targets of antboyracer crowd. Soon there will be a label "boyracer" on mondeos which have slightly different wheels...

As long as you love what you drive, i wouldnt give a crap what people think. If yo want subaru, go for it. you want BMW? go for it...

Nodferatu

subaru > boy racers.

i know that's unfair of me and generalizing every person that drives one as a boy racer, but what i mean is that's what i think personally when i see a subaru, generally the are heard before seen if you know what i mean.

AwayWithFaries

The impreza is a lovely car but unfortunately at lot of knob-jockeys seem to think so aswell hence there is a bit of stigma attached to owning one. Which is a pity really.

ShadowHearth

jesus, i can smell anather war: boyracer VS honest citizens here soon lol :rolleyes:

ShadowHearth

AwayWithFaries wrote: »

The impreza is a lovely car but unfortunately at lot of knob-jockeys seem to think so aswell hence there is a bit of stigma attached to owning one. Which is a pity really.

to be honest when i came to this thread after reading title, first thing that came to my head: " subaru stigma is that they are really good in snowy conditions, which is really hot topic in ireland now", but when i start reading comments i was like /ohlookitsthisthreadagain

Gary ITR

AwayWithFaries wrote: »

The impreza is a lovely car but unfortunately at lot of knob-jockeys seem to think so aswell hence there is a bit of stigma attached to owning one. Which is a pity really.

I see more 'knob jockeys' in Audis and BMWs myself

Matt Simis

Yes there is a stigma. Yes most of them look like muck, like they are designed to look bad. However with a little bit un-factory'ising they can look much better. I like this one a lot:




The "next gen" one looks super bland though.

Yakult

I gotta laugh at people who wouldnt own a car because "a few nobs" own them and theirs a so called stigma attached to them. Riiight Mr. Sheep.


Baaaaah

Oblomov

It all depends on how it's driven.

bmw535d

:pac:
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/1578204

martydunf

Whatever about the stigma attached to it, you cant bate the sound of that boxer engine! LOVE IT!!

Sids Not

Onkle wrote: »

I see more 'knob jockeys' in Audis and BMWs myself

+10
M3's are getting a bad image imo........seems to be the next car for the Civic drivers.....

guil

i had a 94 wrx a few years ago, absolutely loved that car
from the moment i turned the key it was aural pleasure, i had a decat and blitznurspec r exhaust and blitz induction kit, dunno how many car alarms i set of with it

Matt Simis

Sids Not wrote: »

+10
M3's are getting a bad image imo........seems to be the next car for the Civic drivers.....

You hear this floated on forums, but come on, the cost of ownership from tax, part/servicing s and insurance is massively higher on an M3, it cannot (financially) be the a common scummer car (not saying thats what Civics are, but assume thats what you mean).

Maybe battered old 318's with M3 badges, but not the real deal.

Sids Not

I know 3 guys with them...not the type of guys i'd give a job to..they've no problem with bobs for ins/tax..as they're probably only a "1.6"...;)

Shane732

Matt Simis wrote: »

You hear this floated on forums, but come on, the cost of ownership from tax, part/servicing s and insurance is massively higher on an M3, it cannot (financially) be the a common scummer car (not saying thats what Civics are, but assume thats what you mean).

Maybe battered old 318's with M3 badges, but not the real deal.

The older generation M3's are becoming obtainable to purchase but I do agree that the cost of running a m3 might turn some people off. having said that, look at the amount of money some young lads put into their Civics etc.... I know one lad who put well over €10k into a Levin. It's insane money to be putting into something like that.

Matt Simis

Shane732 wrote: »

The older generation M3's are becoming obtainable to purchase but I do agree that the cost of running a m3 might turn some people off. having said that, look at the amount of money some young lads put into their Civics etc.... I know one lad who put well over €10k into a Levin. It's insane money to be putting into something like that.

Yeah, but would said young lad spend EUR1500 on tax and EUR1500+ on Insurance (if they can be insured at all)? A lot of the tricked out Jap cars that become popular are popular due to oddities in their insurance class and small CC but boosted engines, neither of which apply to M3s.

Some may buy into them, but they will never ever be "popular". I think all the knobs in M3s we think we see are infact in all show no go low end junk BMWs with bodykits and badges.

PS: Note Im not actually much of an M3 fan, but I dont think they will ever get to Scooby stigma (warranted or not).

Paparazzo

There is a bit, but it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

inforfun

I want one
Feck the stigma.

fonecrusher1

inforfun wrote: »

I want one
Feck the stigma.

Haha man thats awesome. Subaru power!!!

Spunog UIE

I've been thinking about getting one for a while and I am surprised by how many are for sale butttttttt....

can anyone tell me the difference between these two and why the price difference?!

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Subaru/Impreza/WRX-2.0-/201046200275607/advert?channel=CARS

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Subaru/Impreza/WRX-TURB/201044200131551/advert?channel=CARS

Shadow Dancer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqL0Vw8_Vs&feature=player_embedded

djimi

Who gives a toss about what stigma is attached to a car? If you want one then buy one. I drive a white Integra Type R; I am not a "boy racer" nor do I care if some idiot on the side of the road thinks that I am. Anyone who derives an opinion of someone based on the car they drive is not someone whos opinion matters a whole lot.

The first performance car I ever drove was an Impreza. That was the day I truely learned the difference between a performance car and a run of the mill road car.