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biggun said:
STI? Subaru?

I have studs on the winter alloys for my Audi. Great fun to drive in the snow. Especially good fun in car parks if you accidentally turn of the traction control. ;)

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No studs on the Hilux though. I thought it best at the time as I was going into Oslo a lot and the tolls were quite high. Sometimes I wish I had them but most driving winter tyres with the softer compound seem to work.
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yep Subaru......rally hooligan
 
Haha.

I used to have a 2001 Subaru turbo 2000 and prodrive limited edition. Prodrive being the company from Banbury who did the wrc cars.

It was the UK version before the WRX cars came out. The prodrive bits and pieces gave it a bit extra oomph!

It was a navy blue with gold alloys. Colin McRae style but in Rally wagon mode;)

Awesome to drive.
 
Subaru was my first new car! I loved it, 'twas a great car. A 2 door and it cost $6800. I drove it for a lot of miles and then gave it to one of my guys.

To this day I still want another Subaru.
 
When I first moved to Norway, we rented a house. The owner was in Singapore and had left a Subaru Forester in the garage. He said just use it... we ended up buying it off him and Stine used it for bumping the kids from here to there.

It wasn’t an Impreza or and STi but it was fun to drive in the snow. Had a lot of miles in it and we eventually sold it to our tennant. They kept it another year then scrapped it.

I would have an Impreza tomorrow if the right one came along or every the STI forester. Beast of a motor with a bit extra clearance.
 
Electronics are cool til they aren't, and it's then just an opaque black box you can't do anything with. I'd be perfectly happy with a 62 Willys that had a modern fuel injected engine/transmission, with everything else from 1962.
 
I'm not much of a car guy, but on this topic, I think its weird what they've done with the Land Rover Defender. Afaik, it was always a very bare bones, high quality, expensive, fairly rare 4wd vehicle with strong off road ability.

Suddenly LR comes out with the new glitzy defender, still very pricey afaik but now crammed with electronics.
 
stikine said:
Picked up a 2020 Forester in November. Nice car, but damn does it have a lot of electronic stuff that I haven't spent the time to figure out.
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Alaska must have one of the highest Subaru ownership rates in the world.

Subaru station wagon
Sea Kayak
Hairy Dog
Lawn Chair
New Sagaia bumper sticker
Sunglasses on neoprene retainer
Wooly hat with earflaps and braided cords.
 
cory said:
I'm not much of a car guy, but on this topic, I think its weird what they've done with the Land Rover Defender. Afaik, it was always a very bare bones, high quality, expensive, fairly rare 4wd vehicle with strong off road ability.

Suddenly LR comes out with the new glitzy defender, still very pricey afaik but now crammed with electronics.
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The defender has always been a tinkerers dream. Nearly every other model would need to go back to the workshop for repairs. Not the defenders, eBay, LR specialists all knocking out parts from broken vehicles.

Think of all the workshop hours that could have been billed? It is no wonder they dropped the simpler model a replace with a hybrid of the Disco/Rangerover/freelander and a updated defender.
 
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treebogan said:
Alaska must have one of the highest Subaru ownership rates in the world.

Subaru station wagon
Sea Kayak
Hairy Dog
Lawn Chair
New Sagaia bumper sticker
Sunglasses on neoprene retainer
Wooly hat with earflaps and braided cords.
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That is funny.

At the climbing gym, subaru is by far the most prevalent vehicle.

Sagaia bumper sticker, google couldn't clarify that for me, what is that? thx
 
That looks like a year of bedtime reading!

I wonder if they do the economy tests with the car outfitted with manuals? They could probably get a couple more mpg if they removed them first :^P
 
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Okay guys for any of you who love hand made anything. For any of you who like things that go vroom and more specifically sports cars that go vroom. For any of us of a certain age and above that thinks trucks should be tough, and cars should be as sexy as the girls we chased I give you www.simpsondesign.net
I went to his shop on Whidbey Island last Saturday. OMG he is knowledgeable and gracious, extremely skilled yet humble. He sold me some cantilever hinges for my car. He took me on a tour of design! I didn't even have to go to Italy.
 
I'm not really a sports car kinda guy, but I like vintage cars of all kinds, or even good vintage styling. Those are some fine looking machines, and very unique :^)
 
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If you dig around his website looking at his process pages, you can really learn that he does every prototype in STEEL!
 
I saw that. Looks like a ton of work. What kind of $ are we talking about to have him build a car; $120k?
 
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He seemed bummed out that nobody bought that sexy blue car yet. He said something like $40,000 for it. They all drive like a dream too!
 
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