bmwhere? Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 After 6 1/2 happy years with the Hatch, I decided it was time for a change and for a 40th Birthday present to myself (back in April), I ordered a new 2015 STI. Was a little sad to say goodbuy to the '08 but really happy with the new car... I wanted a few options that wern't available on the standard German spec, so managed to get a Swiss "Luxury" spec instead, unfortunately that meant I had a few months longer to wait. Specs as follows: Full leather interior Electric drivers seat Seat heating Keyless entry Push button start Harmon Kardon Navi system Front Fogs Rear wing delete Rear lip spoiler Sun roof Rear tints 78% with slight mirror effect Rally Armour mud flaps Still to be fitted: Quick shift Exhaust surrounds First impressions of the new car is a huge step forward from the hatch. Its the first Scooby I've owned that I haven't instantly felt the need for handling upgrades. My old car was PPP'd so is 30PS up on the new car, although the sharper throttle mapping and the slight weight saving go some way to make up for that. Will be looking at power upgrades over the next months, once its properly run in! The seats are pretty nice and the leather is really nice, although I had the Recaro's in the old car and do miss the extra lateral support. They've also moved the start button to the other side which is a little annoying, mostly because I keep reaching the wrong way! Can't say I'm massively impressed with the Navi, but maybe I just need to get used to it, but the audio quality from the Harmon Kardon amp and speakers is really excellent! Link to comment
salsa-king Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 looks great with the low spoiler Link to comment
davey l wrx Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Nice, i'm almost tempted! Link to comment
bmwhere? Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 Cheers guys, I'm very pleased so far & turns a lot more heads than the black hatch Link to comment
johnmacdonald Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Excellent machine and spec. Have seriously considered following the same route, but our owned for 9 years 44.000 miles 2006 WRX 2.5 PPP continues to impress. However, the time will come! John Link to comment
scoobro Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Very nice motor.. .......can't recall seeing any subaru's in friedrichshafen when i used to use that airport when traveling to Ravensburg and Bad waldsee.... Link to comment
bmwhere? Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Very nice motor.. .......can't recall seeing any subaru's in friedrichshafen when i used to use that airport when traveling to Ravensburg and Bad waldsee.... There's not many around! There's a girl at work with a classic and the dealers 4 sons all drive STIs, other than those, I probably only see 3 or 4 a year! The rest of Germany isn't much different - ownership is pretty exclusive Plenty around across the border in Switzerland though! Bad Waldsee seems a bit of an odd place to visit Link to comment
scoobro Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yes i suppose it is......Work related visit to Hymer factory in Bad Waldsee............ Link to comment
bmwhere? Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yes i suppose it is......Work related visit to Hymer factory in Bad Waldsee............ Thought as much... not much else there Link to comment
frenchy Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I remember when you took ownership of the Hatch, I can't believe it's been that long! Loving the new 2015 STi too Al Link to comment
bmwhere? Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Time flies Kim! Can't believe this is now my 5th Scooby over 16 years, still remember picking up the first one back in 1998 like it was yesterday Almost 400kms on the clock now, will be taking a quick trip over the Alps to Northern Italy on Sunday/Monday, so should complete the running in and have a bit of a blast over the passes on the way back Link to comment
t5nyw Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 The fastest colour of course Link to comment
monsterenergy Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 The fastest and best colour! Very nice. Did ye nae fancy a high level spoiler? Link to comment
bmwhere? Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Did ye nae fancy a high level spoiler? Been there done that! Saw some pictures of US WRX's with the lip spoiler and thought they looked really cool, so quite fancied having something unique Link to comment
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