I love it - absolutely love it! Was definitely the right decision for me

Picked up the STi this afternoon. Popped into the parts dept to pick something up, and they were friendly, helpful, chatty, knowledgeable, and stayed open past closing time to hold a part for me as I was running late.

Then went to the sales section to pick up my car - Black 06 STi with 3k miles on the clock. After a few minutes sorting out paperwork, handing over the S keys, and taking what felt like hours, I got the keys and drove off

The car is great fun; it wants to go all the time, but is quite civilised at just pootling around. Fuel consumption is going to pretty high, probably the same miles per tank, but its a bigger tank.

Seats are fairly comfy, but as with all cars I find that to get my legs comfortable I can't reach the wheel - not found a car yet that doesn't have that problem! There's no leg room in the back at all, but who cares as I don't have anybody to go in the back really !

Boot is spacious, rear seats don't fold down (got a ski hole), and there are a few cubby holes in the front + 2 cup holders

I haven't quite figured out how to get moving; I seem to either take off with the rev's too high and feel like I'm killing the clutch, or stall

Attitudes from other drivers are certainly interesting; it gets a lot of looks from pedestrians (ina nice way !), some odd reactions from people behind at lights (who seem transfixed by the back end, pointing and commenting), lots of people sitting up my a*se (I assume wanting me to go quicker or something), and people pulling out in front of me at roundabouts for some unknown reason !!

It tramlines quite interestingly, which is apparantly due to the tyres (Bridgestone RE070's), which are also allegedly quite bad in the wet. The steering is quite light which feels abit odd, but you get used to it quickly

Will post pics when I get time to take any

 

Will we see it on Tues?

 

Errr no, unless it drives there itself

 

Bridgestones in rubbish in wet shocker.

Glad you're enjoying it.

How does it corner vs the Elise? I have a guy at work in an Impreza and he always tries to race me, and actually does quite well on wet roundabouts, save for a few bags of understeer.

 

Not sure, haven't pushed it at all yet !!

It does understeer but it flicks into oversteer very quickly, I find myself having to be more careful with it than I am in the S. It certainly hates the white lines as much, if not more !

I'm fairly intimidated by it at the moment, not really sure why; it doesn't have much more power than an old car of mine, but somehow it feels like a beast in comparison

 

'scuse the ignorance but what's a GTi? not Golf surely??

 

You need to change your profile to Enthusiast now, Jo!

PS

 

hey Mark we really need an ex owner category

 

STi

As in Impreza.

 

In my experience of driving Impreza's they niether over or under
steer under power around say a roundabout and have to be one of
the easiest cars to drive quick, far easier than the S2000.

Russ.