GTP Cool Wall: 2003-2005 Subaru Impreza WRX STI

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2003-2005 Subaru Impreza WRX STI

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My neighbour 'had one of these, he did the happy dance the day he got rid of it. He said it was a fun, fast car but spent as much time in the shop as it did in his driveway...his words. Was also annoyingly loud at 2 in the morning. I supposed it balances out to a high uncool.
 
SVX
That's funny. I hear it about the same.
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Never heard it in my life. Must be a non-US thing because when I look up "Teardrop STi" on Google it gives me gear shift knobs, and when I look up "Blobeye STi," it gives me the car. Weird. :odd:
 
I went with cool on the fact that I haven't seen the idiots driving the STI Imprezas. They normally are driving modified RSs and WRXs.
 
I thaught we vote on the cars proposed? Why is everybody judging cars by the most "vocals" owners??

I voted sub zero.
It's an affordable sport cars with rally pedigree. If only there were more cars like it on the market....

I agree on the owners, lots of Subbies here get every 30k km a new engine because of their moronic drivers.
That doesn't nullify the car though, the car should deserve better drivers
 
Ibonibo
I thaught we vote on the cars proposed? Why is everybody judging cars by the most "vocals" owners??
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You can vote by whatever criteria you judge. So can everyone else - that's the point.

For many people, the mean or mode person that drives the car is part of the image that car projects. If the fact they're often driven by throbbers doesn't impact the cool image to you, you're entirely free to vote as you wish on that basis. It does to some other people and they're entirely free to vote as they wish on that basis.

Top Gear, in a rare moment of factual clarity, summed it up best in the Africa Special:
Ohhh hang on..... That is the throb of a turbo charged flat four engine. A sound which all over the world heralds the imminent arrival of a moron.
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And that's what people see when they see a Subaru Impreza of any stripe moving around in the wild. Not a cool look.
 
Absolutely Sub-Zero for me! This car is just great in ever sense of the word and everyone should own one! I'm thinking of getting this as my first car!
 
Mike458
Absolutely Sub-Zero for me! This car is just great in ever sense of the word and everyone should own one! I'm thinking of getting this as my first car!
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I can think of various reasons why that wouldn't be a very good idea. It's been covered to death in all the "looking for a first car" threads, but to put it simply, you should probably just buy a Miata.
 
Famine
You can vote by whatever criteria you judge. So can everyone else - that's the point.

For many people, the mean or mode person that drives the car is part of the image that car projects. If the fact they're often driven by throbbers doesn't impact the cool image to you, you're entirely free to vote as you wish on that basis. It does to some other people and they're entirely free to vote as they wish on that basis.

Top Gear, in a rare moment of factual clarity, summed it up best in the Africa Special:And that's what people see when they see a Subaru Impreza of any stripe moving around in the wild. Not a cool look.
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Says the guy who votes SZ on pretty much anything French. :indiff:
 
As much as I would like to drive one, it is not cool.
 
Famine
Yes, how dare I tell people they can use whatever criteria they wish to judge a car's coolness yet, at the same time, use my own criteria to judge a car's coolness.

The... what?
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Sorry, was being lazy and forgot how good you are at the internets.

I've got no problem with the part of your statement that makes perfect sense (you know, the part that's saying the same thing I've said before in other threads)... Nope, no problem at all.

It's the part about "That is the throb of a turbo charged flat four engine. A sound which all over the world heralds the imminent arrival of a moron." being factual clarity.

:lol:

Kinda surprised you'd look at a post of your own with two obviously separate concepts and assume the completely logical part would be the issue of contention rather than the part that's entirely opinion and referring to people as morons.
Oh well, that's the interwebs for ya! :D
 
Kent
Sorry, was being lazy and forgot how good you are at the internets.
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Whatever that means.
Kent
I've got no problem with the part of your statement that makes perfect sense (you know, the part that's saying the same thing I've said before in other threads)... Nope, no problem at all.
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You're entitled to find sense wherever you wish to find it.
Kent
It's the part about "That is the throb of a turbo charged flat four engine. A sound which all over the world heralds the imminent arrival of a moron." being factual clarity.
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Top Gear is a factual program. They got an award for it and everything. I suggest you take it up with them if they've said something you don't like.


Still, even if you were objecting to the factual nature of that, I don't get what the relevance is to me - or anyone - voting small French cars as cool on the opinion that small French cars are cool. How does that opinion relate to the opinion that a statement from Top Gear - the originators of the Cool Wall, lest we forget - is apt?

Why do you want to turn this topic away from the car and on to me? Why is my opinion that small French cars rate as cool, generally, related to that Top Gear quote? Remember, I didn't refer to anyone as a moron...


Perhaps you should have said "Says the TV show that votes subzero on pretty much anything French" (since they generally also do that), given that it's their contention that a turbo flat four heralds the imminent arrival of a moron?
 
Probably my least favourite form of my least favourite car, ever. So I'm sorry but the answer is clear.
Also, Americans, if you bought it as your first car here, you would be bin-raiding for empty Quavers packets within weeks.
Spare a thought for us. Though, in this instance, in many ways that is actually better (IMO!!!).
 
Very cool. One of the few four pots I like the sound of.
 
This used to be my favourite gen of Impreza, but now it's the GC8 followerd by what the Hawkeye one is called.

Meh. At least it ain't uncool like the fish-eye.
 
JMoney689
Didn't see that coming.
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Thanks to the odd length headers (as @Wolfe states)... though the layout does its part, also... old Subarus burbled. The boxer is the only non-V8 motor that burbles melodically.
 
niky
Thanks to the odd length headers (as @Wolfe states)... though the layout does its part, also... old Subarus burbled. The boxer is the only non-V8 motor that burbles melodically.
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Good point.
 

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