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On retention and ready for immediate allocation to your car. Make your Subaru stand out from the others. £995. Tel: 07496 477 557

Price now £8900.12 months MOT and just serviced by Triton Motorsport Subaru specialist. Sound car.

Yes it’s a Spec D (D is for discreet apparently). Price now reduced to £9,250, will be sold with fresh MOT. Just been enjoying the snow!

Unmodified WRX STi Hawkeye widetrack first registered Jan 2007, so among the last to be made. 8 main dealer service stamps to 59,000 miles then 3 specialist stamps. Cam belt changed at 50k, new clutch at 60k, currently showing 79,000 miles. New Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tyres recently fitted, alloy wheels newly refurbished, new rear shocks at 74k. So a well maintained car ready to be enjoyed by its next owner. This discreetly spoilered WRX STi comes with black leather upholstery which is in excellent condition. Any inspection welcome. Current MOT until 11/5/18 but will sell with fresh MOT subject to price. £10,000

This car is now sold. Thanks for your interest. Number plate SU66ARU on retention and available for immediate transfer, £1500.

Oh i see! I've got a very nice number plate you would like to see on your car......

If you buy the mat for £24,500 I'll throw in the car.

No thanks Brian, it's going with the car.

Something boring infortunately. Thanks

November 2016 Subaru WRX STI purchased new by me in November. Silver metallic and as new. All round rubber mats, including boot. Standard car. I am trading in for something else, all I want is £24,500 to beat the dealers trade-in offer. That represents a huge saving over list and much better than anything else online. Number plate available by separate negotiation. More photos to follow. Please call 01425 619262 (Bournemouth area)

I am now into my 4th month of ownership, where did the time go? I have only covered 1800 miles in that time but those miles have involved some commuiting and a B road blast through Shropshire. My experience so far has shown me what the car is good at and where it falls short, so here goes. Motorway commuting is definitely not this cars natural home. Whilst it is economical in this environment, plodding along at 50-70 in busy traffic can be rather boring. At much over 60mph the radio is inaudible, so the boredom cannot be alleviated by listening to anything conversational. This is a noisy car, mainly roadnoise. Get off the motorways though, find a gap in the traffic and the only entertainment you will need is available from your right foot and through the steering wheel. I had a blast driving from Bridgnorth to Market Drayton and on to Knighton and Newcastle under Lyme in January. The more sinuous the road the better, as soon as the traffic disappears this car demonstrates just how quickly it can eat up the tarmac and just how much fun it can be. The steering is amazing, the car is so easy to place on the road. Turn in is instantaneous then feed in the power and just enjoy being fired out of the corner to the next one with the confidence instilled by unshakeable traction. Great! I still like the interior, I don't get the press criticisms, and find the seats comfortable even on a long journey although a bit more adjustment would help, underthigh support could be a bit higher for taller drivers. The big boot is a real plus and there is pleny of room in the back. What would I like Subaru to add to the next version? Well sat nav and a reversing camera should be included in the spec as standard, as should parking sensors. A couple of storage nets in the footwells would not go amiss. A bit of high tech should be available to take advantage of safety developments and to keep up with the competition: intelligent LED lights are superb and I want some, a couple more USB sockets would be useful too. Oh! I use the horn for the first time yesterday, it's pathetic! Like something off a pedal car. Anybody have any suggestions for something a bit more manly? Average fuel consumption so far: 30.3mpg. i still look forward to an excuse to drive my Subaru, and any trip is an event. This is an easy car to enjoy!

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I hoped this thread would be a guide to WRX STi ownership should anyone be interested in owning one. I agree 100% that you don't buy one for the fuel economy, I didn't! But what I found in my first weeks of ownership is that the reviews online or in the press were a bit harsh. Not all of them, but some would definitely be a disincentive to potential buyers. Car Wow, for example state that: running costs are high – and you’ll be lucky to average more than about 20mpg. My reason for posting on this topic is to reassure any would be buyers that economy should not be a deal breaker. I agree that we have covered that subject now and I look forward to writing more about the car's other attributes in the coming weeks.

Just smooth driving people. Plenty of braking distance and minimal use of the brakes, no hard acceleration (no use in congested traffic anyway). I'm sure I could do better! I did not hold back on the acceleration on the way home and even then I thought consumption was quite respectable. I will save my fun for the right roads, meanwhile I will enjoy this car's unexpected "efficiency" when I don't need to use the loud pedal.

I took the car to work for the first time today, that's a 38 mile commute each way and a mix of town, A-road and motorway. On the way there I drove economically but keeping up with the traffic and achieved 32.2 mpg. On the way back I drove as you would like to drive a Subaru with the occasional blast of acceleration but without abusing the speed limits, that returned 28.5 mpg. So not too bad at all. I'm happy!

120 days? I got mine in 7! What spec have you gone for, I'm interested.

Yes, unbeatable in the snow Vicky S. And unbeatable on the road if you read this: http://www.caradvice.com.au/479211/ford-focus-rs-v-subaru-wrx-sti-v-volkswagen-golf-r-comparison-road-test/ I have to agree with their findings, I'm sure my fellow Scooby lovers will too.......

Richie T said: I'm not sure what the power upgrade is, do you know what exactly is being done to get the additional 10 bhp. I have asked my dealer ona few occassions for details of upgrades however they appear to want to play them down. I'll assume that they don't mess with the warranty. So the answer is that Subaru supply a disc to the dealer (admin charge £10) who can then download its contents on to my ECU, one shot only, at a cost of: wait for it, £1,000! For 10 bhp! I changed my mind until I know more abot torque figures andfuel consumption. Anyone driven a carvwith the upgrade?

Very funny . Yes if you get in the car and find you forgot your wife's birthday just keep driving and don't come back. I downloaded the app but I cannot find anything useful. I stand to be corrected though. Anyone?

Did you buy it? Mine had a bit of a plasticky burning smell when brand new but it went away and didn't come back. Probably some protective coating where it shouldn't have been.

Sorry about the quote box, selected it by accident and couldn't get rid of it

Thanks Daz, have you found anything useful to do with the Starlink app? I downloaded it but can't see anything of interest. Not sure why I would want to display the calendar from my phone, or the weather, and it doesn't link to my spotify account. Think I will delete it.

Yes, I still have to read all about how that works. Thanks for the tip

I collected my brand new WRX STi yesterday and thought I would share my ownership experience for anyone who is interested in buying one or who just likes Subarus, and to test some of the assertions made by motoring journalists. Mine was a bit of an impulse buy. I had a few cars on my shortlist with prices between £20k and £60k, but having owned a 2005 WRX and loved it, I always had a hankering for another one and the new model ticked lots of boxes for me. It had to be something different that stood out from the crowd (so that was the Golf R and Seat Lean Cupra 290 dispatched with) and a car with a bit of character. The focus RS was tempting but the interior is just so, well....Ford Focus. Nice car though but another 6 grand on top of what I paid for the Subaru, so in the bang for buck stakes it is not massively superior. The Mercedes AMG is just stupid money and by the time you have optioned it up is practically the same money as an M2. Anyway the list of competitors goes on. When it comes down to it, for me at least, it boils down to the deals available at the time I am ready to buy, the dealership relationship thing, and in this case the time of year. You can't beat a Subaru when the weather turns bad, so I plumped for my WRX STi. First impressions? Well I quite like the interior. It gets a bit of a panning in the press but it does not offend me in the slightest. The seats are comfortable and supportive, there is plenty of room - I just took my family to Heathrow including a 6'4" 23 year old who sat quite happily in the back, a big boot that swallows plenty of luggage. Mine has split folding rear seats as well so first thing is it's a very practical car. I owned a Morgan Plus 8 before so tales of a hard ride made me laugh, although it is quite firm. There is quite a bit of jiggling around that could become tiresome on a very long journey. It is most noticable on motorways where there is nothing else to distract you. On A roads and smaller rural roads the cornering ability of the car tends to be the dominant feature. It does like to go aound bends, the tighter the better. Roundabouts have taken on a whole new appeal, so I'll have to watch myself there. Potholed urban roads are a bit of a pain but, as speeds are lower, quite bearable. The satnav is notable by its absence (really!) and the radio is largely redundant at motorway speeds as the cabin is quite noisy. I need to have a fiddle with the audio controls, there is a graphic equalizer to play with (very 90's!) so maybe a bit more base will help. But concert sound it is not. The engine is worth a listen though, that burbly rumble is a fantastic soundtrack. If you are a petrolhead you will be very happy with the noises it makes. Cruise control is easy to use and probably essential if you want to keep your licence clean. It is very tempting to give the throttle a squeeze and add 20 mph to your cruising speed, which is very easily done. There is something called a "Triplemeter" that can be selected on the multifunction display. I get to choose which 3 pieces of info I want to see and add them to this display, I have found that to be quite useful especially to keep an eye on fuel consumption. I was apprehensive of the fuel consumption having read magazine reports and watched You Tube reviews predicting 20mpg or "at best 29 if you drive it like a granny". Well I just drove it to Heathrow and back from the Bournemouth area on a busy M3 and clogged up M25 and was delighted to return 36mpg without really trying. I reckon I could get 38 if I put my mind to it or on a quieter motorway, and don't forget this car has only done about 250 miles so should loosen up a little over the next thousand miles or so. The dealer has been great. They are genuine enthusiasts who really seem to care that their customers are happy, not just a box ticking customer experience review that you get from the likes of BMW (i've had 8 of those so I know the difference). It was a genuinely pleasant buying experience, they went out of their way to get me into my car as quickly as possible and were very flexible. So, a good first impression. I went in with my eyes open, expecting high fuel consumption, the road tax is high, insurance wasn't too bad though (although I am 57) at £380 fully comp through Adrian Flux who I would recommend. They have been very efficient. I am just waiting for some snow now when I know from experience that this car comes into its own. Bring on the winter! I discovered only yesterday that the Subaru Owners Club offices are just around the corner from me in Christchurch, I have an Audi Q7 (crap!) that regularly spends time in a specialist just around the corner so I might pop in for a cup of tea. Another thing I didn't realise is that Scooby owners do that waving thing, so apologies to the guy on the A35 in a WRX just outside Lyndhurst who I was just too slow to respond to. More updates over the approaching miles!

I took delivery of mine yesterday and filled up with Esso Premium unleaded (nearest one to the dealership). I have been a bit nervous about fuel consumption having read and watched reviews telling me to expect 20mpg, maybe 29 "if you drive like your granny". Well I've just driven to Heathrow and back from Bournemouth and averaged 36mpg in typical rush hour traffic and driving at the same speed as everyone else i.e. at or around the legal limit when not stuck in traffic jams on the M25. These journalists don't half talk a load of b@ll@cks. To answer your question, I will stick with the premium stuff, probably Shell V-Power. The extra cost will be offset a little, but not completely, by improved fuel consumption and if it looks after the engine then so much the better.