Comments on: Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2006 MY06

By: john

john — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:19:57 +0000

a 30 year old car …lol…….even if it was fast it looks like my gramps car, wrx alllll the way not only is it fast it looks good ,and when i buy cars i care about that fact,

By: Clancy

Clancy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:55:55 +0000

…oh yeah. One more thing.
I love the nob.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:54:39 +0000

My Dad owns a charger, my brother owns a new GTS monaro my 06 STi eats both of them in a straight line or on a corner and uses alot less fuel too!! And you want a good investment stuff cars go real estate cause if you ask me Old fuel guzlin carby fed muscle cars are going out with new pollution policy anyway. So go plastic not classic

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:49:27 +0000

Bavarian Missile you got it twisted, True old school muscle is over and no disrespect to the old schoolers but your modern Falcons & Commodores Depreciate in value like no other and Subaru are good at holding their value, by the way good luck with making any modern car last 30 years if you drive it. You want a tip for investing, dont buy a car at all. If you have to have the best transport known to man buy a subaru.

By: George

George — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:49:07 +0000

I just bought a 2003 STI modified, to 19 pounds (safe tune I believe) and can tell you it has more power and capabilities and I thought I could handle. I tell you it gets you into trouble rather that out if you go to the limit with it. Coming from VL turbos, Skylines, V8’s, the WRX cr*ps all over them. If only I could drive it to it capabilities. I also don’t like the fact that if I lose it around a corner, I won’t know when it will lose traction. That really scares me.

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:13:20 +0000

Matt Damon , sounds like some jealousy too me. Why get agro at someone that looks towards their future retirement I mean a lot of people are buying collectable cars instead of super cause you can drive them unlike your super .Come back when your older than 12 mate. 7 & 8 s in a Rex ,is that down the quarter or to a hundred clicks hahaha ? Have you ever watched the old Bathurst DVDs see any 180bs win against a XYGTHO ,oh thats right different class ! How about the current Performance Car Series Championship as much as it pains me to say it is currently being won by a Monaro not a Rex!

So if you would prefer to waist money spending it on a Rex that will be worth less after you have stuffed with it? Fine. Mate don’t start something you cant finish here cause I have been around a lot longer than you and have been both sides of the fence.Even my 22 year old that is a ricer has just started to realize that spending money on ricers to make them go faster and faster is a waist of time,he currently has just bought a Nissan GTR that he starting to wish he never bought ! After spending more than $20,000 on go fast parts and pretty stuff for his cars over the last 12 months there worth no more and drive like crap as well.

I have a load of respect for Rex’s and have said many a time if I didn’t own an M3 that would be my choice for affordable fun so I am not anti Rex just anti idiots!

Oh and by the way we drive our collectable cars and every one in our club does too just not to work ,well sometimes to work if you can find a park that some idiot in a ricer trying to drift wont hit you in! Lol

By: Matt Damon

Matt Damon — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:16:00 +0000

As for what Bavarian Missile said, you kind of people who “invest” in cars sicken me, a car was built to be driven, you’re missing out if you only buy a car cuz u think it will be valuable in 30 years, quite frankly, you are shit

By: Matt Damon

Matt Damon — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:14:31 +0000

Impreza = Close to engineering perfection, straight line power, it blitzes corners and u can drive it on the street.

Muscle cars = stupid amounts of power in stripped chassis with stupidly fat tyres that serve no purpose other than to go 400 metres and stop. WOW! WOW WOW WOW! I know which one I’d rather spend a heap of money on. As for “quick cars” there’s plenty of Rexes that run 7’s and 8’s, and there aint many muscle cars that can claim that

By: scott liddle

scott liddle — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:34:03 +0000

this is one of the best subaru imprezas i have seen in ages is awesome to look at i would go and by one myself because i like subarus there the best car to drive in the world

By: dick

dick — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:31:30 +0000

fuck off

By: dick

dick — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:30:36 +0000

this car is fucking awesome

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:54:46 +0000

ooohhhh really……… I love Rex’s too ,BUT. Aussie Muscle Cars are worth a bundle at the moment and the Rex in 30 years sorry,wont be. TOO many made!

By: john smith

john smith — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:31:21 +0000

had a look at “rat patrol’s site…real car?.ive got a rex too.and jeez i know which one id rather drive…dunno bout you but it looks ready for the tip to me!

By: The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:30:17 +0000

Like I said…..”and as for “performance”…I guess its adequate for a Hi tech AWD platform MY 06 peformance car…but hardly “Giant killing”…”

My comments were directed at those that just believe what “hubby, the car section of the Newspaper or the local mechanic” tells them…without ever experiencing a genuinely quick car.

Beating a factory pig like a CV8 Munro at the lights and a taking on a genuine street machine requires a very different level of HP (KW) .

A lot of these WREX owners need to get along to Calder sometime……it will put their high 13 into serious perspective.

and who needs corners anyhow…like anyone races point to point in the burbs…..LOL!!

Nope…its the first 200 metres and then its stop for ice cream.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 06 May 2007 05:48:43 +0000

common sense suggests that something 35 years older will be significantly outpaced on the track by todays technology, esecially a wrx. but in a few years the current model rex will be replaced by a new one, and be gone and forgotten about

the charger is a true legend because just like james dean, it was cool and died young…

By: Lisa Preston

Lisa Preston — Sun, 06 May 2007 05:02:35 +0000

Nice Charger,but not going to make it as fast around a race track as The REX,agreed Sam?

We have XA GT COUPE ,modified {if you have an old copy of Street Machine Sept 97 you will see it}.671 is now gone but the rest of the car still the same.I love and very much appreciate old Aussie Muscle cars. But they are in a different class to the new stuff of today,but agreed at a set of lights,I would think twice before having a go at you. I may get traction first though. Nice job,nice car.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 05 May 2007 11:07:12 +0000

^^ agreed

By: The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:27:23 +0000

Ange: Gawd it makes me puke the way WREX owners go on about their cars like they’re Aston Martin DB9s. You must have owned some pretty boring cars if you reckon that bulbous roller skate on wheels has any “head turning” appeal. LOL!!

……..and as for “performance”…I guess its adequate for a Hi tech AWD platform MY 06 peformance car…but hardly “Giant killing”…

Id caution ANYONE thinking that a high 13 sec qtr mile car is going to be the quickest thing on the road…..at least considering the stuff I know is out there on “duty”….mine included.

(I think the current day 4 Banger drivers have been lulled into a false sense of security by dusting off MY05 Club – Portlys and un-modded 1700 KG FPV’s…these are NOT legit V8 weapons)

Now a real car? and real performance?…just check my website ..

Classic, NOT plastic….

http://moparmal.tripod.com/id42.html

.live and learn chickadee…..:wave:

By: Ange

Ange — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:05:13 +0000

Hmmm, I guess as a 31yo female owner of an 06 STI I don’t quite fit the stereotype. My 13 yr old son & 8 yr old daughter are quite happy to be dropped off at school, although they joke that they have to jump for it because Mum doesn’t quite stop the car. They’re not unaccustomed to cornering at 90kmh, although I try to restrict this to when I’m driving by myself, especially since my 13 yr old son has started to become a weight liability…
My amazing car turns heads no matter what speed it’s travelling! Generally the look on anyone’s face is one of appreciation of the STI’s blatant power….in the case of male observers it usually results in their jaw resting on their chest in disbelief! This quickly progresses to a look that makes you assume they’re about to bring up their lunch!
Only 4 items which could do with improvement – and none of them are performance related. 1.Needs Leather Interior; 2.Stereo; 3.Remote Boot Release on Fob (although shopping is another weight issue) 4.Sunroof – my husband’s request, I don’t like the extra wind drag!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:20:50 +0000

You cannot make a Wrx exactly like an STI for the sole fact that as a cost saving measure subaru only uses aluminum suspension components on the STI and cast iron ones on the standard Wrx, meaning that 16000 extra does stand for something more then just the engine or the dccd . The STI has suspension components different from the entire impreza line. The engine is, if i’m not wrong different too. The new WRX engine has cast internals however the STI engine has Forged internals allowing it to suppositely put out 400 hp reliabily something the new WRX cannot do. Subaru did this to stop people from tunning the WRX to beat the STI with reasonable cost. Such that for a WRX to go faster then an STI you will need to spend more then buying an STI in the first place. The truth is an evo is faster however with regards to build quality the STI leaves the evo behind in terms of structual stiffness and chassis strength. With properly tunned suspension the STI would be able to equal the evo in corners as it actually had be set up more for comfort then the evo from the dealers. Mind you I respect the Evo but with regards to chassis build the subaru has it beat. O yes mitsubishi knows that the evo’s chassis is prone to creaks due to its rather low stiffness hence the evo X uses a new chassis unfortunately making it a full 90 KG heavier. No matter how much power the car has weight kills handling.