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Post by bryan on Jun 20, 2022 20:20:21 GMT
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Post by Blarno on Jun 21, 2022 8:10:13 GMT
You would have to really want one to pay half a million for it. That's an obscene amount of money for an Impreza. In fact, you could likely buy an ex-WRC car that would wipe the floor with it for less.
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Post by Ben on Jun 21, 2022 9:27:44 GMT
Half a million is a lot of money, but man, I just love that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2022 15:06:11 GMT
Fantastic talent but for that I would want something like the Jag coupe in the other thread.
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Post by Alex on Jun 21, 2022 18:08:18 GMT
Agree I like the look of it but I thoroughly dislike the price and they're surely being a bit ambitious if they think they've got enough buyers willing to part with that much.
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Post by PG on Jun 21, 2022 19:29:36 GMT
I'm not really sure I get the whole restomod thing in the guises it seems to be taking.
I thought that (or rather I think it should be) a restomod was improving a classic or modern classic by adding some modern touches and running gear and improving the livability etc. But the current crop seem to be basically building a one-off car (that is road legal as it is technically an old car according to the DVLA) that costs eye-watering amounts of money. Surely rather than restomods, these are coach built limited runs?
Or am I missing something?
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Post by Stuntman on Jun 21, 2022 20:45:22 GMT
Very nice, but the price kills it entirely in my opinion.
That money buys a GR Yaris in every colour, plus some land on which to build a rally stage and race your mates.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 21, 2022 21:22:37 GMT
For half a million ...... I'd prefer a house to an Imprezza
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2022 21:33:53 GMT
Actually, you could get an Alfa Holics motor and the Jag and whatever daily driver you reasonably could want.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 22, 2022 7:32:37 GMT
You know this will be bought, barely driven and stored somewhere for resale in 10 years time for a million.
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Post by Blarno on Jun 22, 2022 8:37:08 GMT
You know this will be bought, barely driven and stored somewhere for resale in 10 years time for a million. Like pretty much every other 22B then.
Although, I do remember the chap I bought my Legacy from having one. At the time, it was 5 years old and had been used properly - covered in mud from the Welsh lanes, battle scars, scratches, the lot.
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Post by Grampa on Jun 22, 2022 15:43:21 GMT
Yes it does, but I could live with a standard original one for a few pounds less! |
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 22, 2022 16:25:16 GMT
This (like all of this shaped Impreza) falls into the “Lancia Stratos” category for me. Really impressive racing history; proven winner; genuine heritage appeal………
…… but so horrible to behold that nothing could make me part with money for one.
When I bought my E46 new this was the option suggested to me by a colleague at the time (a particularly lairy Mancunian lawyer that at one time had no problem procuring and selling a half kilo slab of cannabis to the project Financial Controller who was going through a particularly wild mid-life crisis which included his wife finding pictures of him and a Russian whore tied up naked). I didn’t want one new and I still don’t.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 22, 2022 19:40:59 GMT
Pure lottery fantasy. But if my numbers did come up this would join the 928 I posted the other day. It does seem however that you could build one yourself for quite a bit less.
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Post by Tim on Jun 23, 2022 8:00:34 GMT
I'm more interested in BB's financial controller colleague.......
In the early 2000s I regularly used to see an Impreza P1 being driven at 60 on the (fairly quiet) motorway at rush hour. It never had a spot of dirt on it and for some reason it's subsequently always put me off them.
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 23, 2022 9:00:11 GMT
I'm more interested in BB's financial controller colleague....... He was a character, I'll give him that. He was a bit older than we were (so I was about 30; he was 40) and had been a proper old school New Romantic (Bryan Ferry and Japan era) and we basically spent lots of time in his office working out how to make the figures for rolling out a national telecoms network look realistic. When he left his HR exit interview was reportedly thus: "Why are you leaving?" He points at the Group FD. "Because he is a cunt." That was the extent of the interview in my recollection. |
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Post by Tim on Jun 23, 2022 12:04:26 GMT
That's something to aspire to
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Post by PG on Jun 23, 2022 14:06:36 GMT
I'm more interested in BB's financial controller colleague....... He was a character, I'll give him that. He was a bit older than we were (so I was about 30; he was 40) and had been a proper old school New Romantic (Bryan Ferry and Japan era) and we basically spent lots of time in his office working out how to make the figures for rolling out a national telecoms network look realistic. When he left his HR exit interview was reportedly thus: "Why are you leaving?" He points at the Group FD. "Because he is a cunt." That was the extent of the interview in my recollection. He'd be my era then. I was never a New Romantic myself, but the New Romantic evening was always the best one at the nightclub I worked behind the bar at to fund college fun. Good music and the girls were always quite gorgeous. Unlike a Friday and Saturday when the crowd was rather rough and bargepoles or a hazmat suit would have been required. In fact if I was giving advice to myself at that time it would have been two fold - (1) Learn to ride a horse (about 20 girls to each bloke, and 75% of the blokes are gay. ) (2) Become a weekend New Romantic |
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Post by Stuntman on Jun 24, 2022 20:11:07 GMT
"Why are you leaving?" He points at the Group FD. "Because he is a cunt." That was the extent of the interview in my recollection. Proper quality right there. Probably the real reason that many people leave jobs. |
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Post by chipbutty on Jun 25, 2022 19:30:17 GMT
At £450k, this is close to Singer 911 money isn’t it ?
Matters not a jot though, all are now sold.
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