Sti Cosworth Due For Release In March.

[sti_steve]

And how much ?

I'll get one in 5 years when I can afford it

[dipsy]

http://www.nitrobahn.com/conceptz/autoshow...neva-motor-show .What price is going to be if thats the bhp it going to run

[Ovv]

is it just me or does the colour look two tone, boot lid looks darker or maybe its just the way the pictures been taken.

Nae euromillions for me last night, so I wont be hurrying to the dealer when prices are released.

[StrikE]

500 little horses running around in that burble flat 4.

over £38k and then some..........

[murtayamartin]

Yeah, i'm with you on that!

pmsl

martin

[scoobyseller555]

Can't see any mention of the UK300,you can't know that much then

Kenny

Sorry Kenny,thats another of the inferior UK models.

........and the wrx300 and the WRS cars of 97/98 and WRXS and 330S.

Gav

[scoobyseller555]

More to the point Gav................................ WHEN??

Mark

Order now,going to be very very exclusive.Just got your PM m8,inbox was full,PM you Monday.

Gav

[sparky_sj04]

Mark

Order now,going to be very very exclusive.Just got your PM m8,inbox was full,PM you Monday.

Gav

I think I could be seriously considering it. Need a few more details though. Principally because (daft optimism aside) I'm thinking that the price may be starting with a 4.

I'm watching with interest.

[the squiggle]

Gav, your job is to promote the cars you sell in the best possible light and cannot be seen to say anything bad about IM or the network or indeed the product. I on the other hand just say what i see and what i see is an inferior product being offered to the UK punters, this Cosworth variant should help improve the top end of the STI market but a case of too little too late.

All the limited editions you mentioned were inferior products to the equivilent model from Japan

Series McRae...210bhp..................................................STI RA V-Limited.....276bhp

Bugeye Prodrive Style Type UK PPP...260bhp..................Prodrive Style.........300bhp

RB320.............................................320bhp..................Type RA-R..............330bhp Est

I would have been more impressed if IM had brought the RHD specials from Japan and sold them with full UK approval.

STI RA, V-Limited, 555 Wagon, RA, Type SA, Toshi Arai Version, S201, S202, S203, S204, STI Carbon, Petter Solberg Edition, Limited, Type KL GL and ZL Blobeye, Prodrive Style

All superior drivers car to the product IM offers the UK market.

Oh yes there is one good thing IM has done and thats the Bright button located conveniently on the centre console, stroke of genius that one. JDM gets a DCCD set up and we get a Bright button

x

[the squiggle]

I forgot the mightest of the JDM offering, The Spec C

[Big 'D']

Gav, your job is to promote the cars you sell in the best possible light and cannot be seen to say anything bad about IM or the network or indeed the product. I on the other hand just say what i see and what i see is an inferior product being offered to the UK punters, this Cosworth variant should help improve the top end of the STI market but a case of too little too late.

All the limited editions you mentioned were inferior products to the equivilent model from Japan

Series McRae...210bhp..................................................STI RA V-Limited.....276bhp

Bugeye Prodrive Style Type UK PPP...260bhp..................Prodrive Style.........300bhp

RB320.............................................320bhp..................Type RA-R..............330bhp Est

I would have been more impressed if IM had brought the RHD specials from Japan and sold them with full UK approval.

STI RA, V-Limited, 555 Wagon, RA, Type SA, Toshi Arai Version, S201, S202, S203, S204, STI Carbon, Petter Solberg Edition, Limited, Type KL GL and ZL Blobeye, Prodrive Style

All superior drivers car to the product IM offers the UK market.

Oh yes there is one good thing IM has done and thats the Bright button located conveniently on the centre console, stroke of genius that one. JDM gets a DCCD set up and we get a Bright button

x

I have to whole heartedly agree with this, I cant help but think that Subaru would do a whole load better in the UK selling the higher spec cars which are available in Japan. I would have an import over a UK car any day

Lets hope the Cossie is a breath of fresh air for the UK STi.

Cheers Iain

[hi_jac]

Gav, your job is to promote the cars you sell in the best possible light and cannot be seen to say anything bad about IM or the network or indeed the product. I on the other hand just say what i see and what i see is an inferior product being offered to the UK punters, this Cosworth variant should help improve the top end of the STI market but a case of too little too late.

All the limited editions you mentioned were inferior products to the equivilent model from Japan

Series McRae...210bhp..................................................STI RA V-Limited.....276bhp

Bugeye Prodrive Style Type UK PPP...305bhp..................Prodrive Style.........300bhp

RB320.............................................320bhp..................Type RA-R..............330bhp Est

I would have been more impressed if IM had brought the RHD specials from Japan and sold them with full UK approval.

STI RA, V-Limited, 555 Wagon, RA, Type SA, Toshi Arai Version, S201, S202, S203, S204, STI Carbon, Petter Solberg Edition, Limited, Type KL GL and ZL Blobeye, Prodrive Style

All superior drivers car to the product IM offers the UK market.

Oh yes there is one good thing IM has done and thats the Bright button located conveniently on the centre console, stroke of genius that one. JDM gets a DCCD set up and we get a Bright button

x

Ma bug prodrive UK from factoty was 305bhp...

[the squiggle]

In my opinion it was Colin and Richard that made the Impeza Turbo successful, the big wigs at IM would have been brave to say no to Japan on that one with an iconic British driver behind the wheel

[Big 'D']

In my opinion it was Colin and Richard that made the Impeza Turbo successful, the big wigs at IM would have been brave to say no to Japan on that one with an iconic British driver behind the wheel

They certainly sold the Impreza for me, well Colin did at first then Richard drove the point home.

Cheers Iain

[the squiggle]

Ma bug prodrive UK from factoty was 305bhp...

Your right JAC, my apologies i was thinking of the WRX with the PPP upgrade. The Bugeye STI UK was indeed circa 300bhp from the factory when fitted with the aftermarket components developed by Prodrive, still down on the JDM equivilent but a good effort

[scoobyseller555]

In my opinion i think i would be very arrogant to put on an open forum that is full of UK Impreza owners that they are driving inferior vehicles,each to there own and that is why there is freedom of choice,the cars you mention are different in many ways from the UK cars,impo i would enjoy driving any Impreza whether it be a Sport or a JDM RA-R,the fact that i'm driving an Impreza is what makes it special.

Gav

[scoobyseller555]

Your right JAC, my apologies i was thinking of the WRX with the PPP upgrade. The Bugeye STI UK was indeed circa 300bhp from the factory when fitted with the aftermarket components developed by Prodrive, still down on the JDM equivilent but a good effort

NO you were actually correct,the Prodrive Style car came out of the factory with 265PS,305PS was with the optional dealer fit PPP.

Gav

[sti_steve]

Can I ask what IM stands for?

[Big 'D']

In my opinion i think i would be very arrogant to put on an open forum that is full of UK Impreza owners that they are driving inferior vehicles,each to there own and that is why there is freedom of choice,the cars you mention are different in many ways from the UK cars,impo i would enjoy driving any Impreza whether it be a Sport or a JDM RA-R,the fact that i'm driving an Impreza is what makes it special.

Gav

It is common knowledge that the UK spec Impreza is of a lower spec than the JDM there is nothing arrogant about it, I am sure even you are aware of this. There is a freedom of choice and that is probably why the import market does so well. The Impreza is a special car but that does not change the fact that some are better than others. I am sure that the Sport owners would like a Turbo 2000, or the Turbo 2000 owners want an Sti and so on, I think alot of us have to put up with and love what we can afford but that does not stop us wanting the best.

Cheers Iain

[scoobyseller555]

In my opinion it was Colin and Richard that made the Impeza Turbo successful, the big wigs at IM would have been brave to say no to Japan on that one with an iconic British driver behind the wheel

What about ME and Grant(AWD) do we not count back in the early days when very very few people even knew what it was?

..........oh and Cusco with his minty green one.

Gav

[scoobyseller555]

Can I ask what IM stands for?

International Mediation

[the squiggle]

What about ME and Grant(AWD) do we not count back in the early days when very very few people even knew what it was?

..........oh and Cusco with his minty green one.

Gav

I knew what the car was when it was going through the forest in Kielder with a nutty Scotsman behind the wheel producing the most glorious sound i have heard eminating from any motor vehicle. I also know of its previous rally models like the Legacy, again driven to success by Colin and the XT which was piloted by Mr Bourne in the Asia Pacific Championship, so do i get a prize or what

At the time i was 20 years old and finishing my time in Melvin Motors. If only i had been born in the mid 60's then age would possibly have afforded me the luxery of such a fine vehicle but alas at 20 i was driving a A reg SJ410, thems the breaks as now of i own the only Trial Edition car in the world produced in Yellow and the only 1 of the 5 built in the UK. Got my first Subau at 27 and paid 1000plus to insure a 93 WRX that i paid 7500 for and it has been JDM all the way ever since, if only my faither had podgered ma maw 10 years earlier things may have been different.

IM stands for International Motors, the fine and upstanding importer of UK spec vehicles into our country

[scoobyseller555]

It is common knowledge that the UK spec Impreza is of a lower spec than the JDM there is nothing arrogant about it, I am sure even you are aware of this. There is a freedom of choice and that is probably why the import market does so well. The Impreza is a special car but that does not change the fact that some are better than others. I am sure that the Sport owners would like a Turbo 2000, or the Turbo 2000 owners want an Sti and so on, I think alot of us have to put up with and love what we can afford but that does not stop us wanting the best.

Cheers Iain

'I am sure even you are aware of this' LOST 'nothing arrogant'

well i think it is very arrogant to tell someone who loves,cherishes and takes pride in there UK car that its a pile of $hit and they would have been better buying a JDM car instead.

Anyway back on topic its a UK Sti Cosworth thats coming soon..............................................and i will still be selling them to all those crazy people who should be going out and buying a JDM car.

Cheers

Gav

[scoobyseller555]

I knew what the car was when it was going through the forest in Kielder with a nutty Scotsman behind the wheel producing the most glorious sound i have heard eminating from any motor vehicle. I also know of its previous rally models like the Legacy, again driven to success by Colin and the XT which was piloted by Mr Bourne in the Asia Pacific Championship, so do i get a prize or what

At the time i was 20 years old and finishing my time in Melvin Motors. If only i had been born in the mid 60's then age would possibly have afforded me the luxery of such a fine vehicle but alas at 20 i was driving a A reg SJ410, thems the breaks as now of i own the only Trial Edition car in the world produced in Yellow and the only 1 of the 5 built in the UK. Got my first Subau at 27 and paid 1000plus to insure a 93 WRX that i paid 7500 for and it has been JDM all the way ever since, if only my faither had podgered ma maw 10 years earlier things may have been different.

IM stands for International Motors, the fine and upstanding importer of UK spec vehicles into our country

I know av got grey hair but FFS,mid 60's yer takin the p***.

What makes your car a belter surely is not the fact that its a JDM car but a TRIAL car,i'm thinking that there is probably nothing JDM left about the car.??

Gav

[G.Mac]

If I knew then what I know now I would have had a JDM, but I just wanted an Impreza STI. what research I did at the time (15 min test drive) convinced me that I wanted the STI.

Still very happy with my lot but the JDM would have been a better base. Just looking forward to converting mine from the Fred Flintstone mobile that it is at the moment due to that bloomin dodgy spark plug into my very own fire breathing monster (getting rather bored of the disastra and not being able to overtake anything more than a shopping trolley)

Graeme