SJD

Agree with all your comments - the kids do love it - on one occasion had their camera phones out when I've waited at lights. The Impreza if the first car I've ever actually wanted then got. After my STi was sold I had a 'sensible' car but was never happy until I got this Scoob. So I'll carry on lurrving it and not caring about Mr Mondeo's opnions!

Just reading a thread on ScoobyNet about Scooby drivers being chavs (getting sick of that word now) and it struck a chord as some teenagers walked past my car the other day and said "That IS a chav's car" - cheeky g!ts. I heard them through the upstairs window but to be honest if I was out by the car I couldn't really have argued. My Impreza has heavily tinted windows, 18 inch alloys and is the lairiest colour with a big wing on the bootlid. It's also very very loud - great on main roads but feel a bit of a d!ck pottering around Sainsburys carpark looking for a space with everyone turning to gawp. I'm used to kids shouting "nice car Mister" but I always feel the adults think I'm trying to make a point coz the car screams "look at me" whether I want it to or not (or am I having a mid life crisis - I'm 34). I really am not like that, I wanted a red scoob so I found one, but in hindsight I may have chosen a more anonymous colour!! My answer is - get a Skyline GTR. It's my next car in the summer hopefully, if I can flog my Impreza AND my shares! Most people don't know what they are and those that do always treat them with respect. No chav is ever gonna be able to afford to buy and insure a Skyline anytime soon, so it's largely immune from the Max Power brigade. Anyone else drawing unwanted attention in their Impreza? And as a consequence thinking of changing motors?

On the way to pick my missus up at Gatwick earlier this year, I left Newbury at midnight (thanks, love!) and the moment I started the engine, so did a very thick blizzard. So I went as fast as I could in the conditions - max 30mph and for the first 5 or 6 miles out of Newbury some **** followed me so closely I couldn't even see his headlights, just their intense glare About 6 miles in I'd had enough, I brake tested the **** and surprise surprise he backed straight off. If the old bill want to be useful they could drive up the M4 and back all day, pulling over idiots like this instead of hiding behind bushes with cameras. 3 strikes and you lose your licence for a month. I'm talking tailgating, no indicating, or my personal favourite, the wrong lane at roundabouts.

Socko mine is May 98 and suffers the clutch judder when cold. Also a rattling noise when cold, goes away completely when warmed up. Is this piston slap? (it doesn't sound 'heavy' enough, I'd heard before on here it might be the tappets before warm oil gets round the engine)

I'm sure we've all been offended at some point by some programme or other. But the answer is: if you don't like it, turn over! Top Gear is a must for the Mrs and I, never fails to make us laugh out loud every week. We've been trying to get in the audience forever, which shows how popular it is.... It's back May 22nd Clarkson for Prime Minister

One of my first cars, a 1.3 Chevette, was rwd and a LOT of fun in the wet. Mind you any car is fun when you're 17

Apparently (I struggle to believe this though) the last water you spray on it, mixed with something else, 'evaporates' meaning no boring chamois. Gonna give it a go though, only £20.

Bless 'er, she should have gone to SpecSavers

"good idea hard enough finding any girl let alone one with a skyline lol" Not when you're this good looking

would rather have both Or do what I did, get a girl with a GTR who'll put you on her insurance! just need to find a mate with an Evo and I'll have the set

Definitely my next car, when I can afford it. I've been in the passenger seat quite a few times when she's steamed past Evo's, M3's, etc. The looks on their faces is priceless - you can see some don't know what a Skyline is - the kids all recognise it from Playstation games though..

I thought I did till I drove it - Makes mine feel like a diesel

My Mrs has gone out to a works do and left her R32 GTR and the keys with me. I'm insured to drive it but I've got to work!

Have driven my girlfriends R32 GTR which has been rolling roaded at 350 horses before new steel turbos and a remap, so maybe nearer 400bhp now It's an amazing drive, a great deal different to a Scoob, not so agile but a real sense of weight, really planted. And the accelaration could frighten a few supercars! The only cars who ever want to play with her are TVRs - Scoobys and Evos just let her past!

Well im 21 tall, dark, handsom, big and strong, earn £1m PA, own the fastest scooby in the world and it is the best colour, have a few bentleys and hot rods nocking about in my private air field i wont tell you any more coz i dont want to boast to much im just one of those average guys i suppose Mike you've been reading my CV Oh and I'm 23 actually