Evo 6 is Life

[okenemem]

lovely

[adam.]

okenemem said:

lovely

Killer2005 said:

Well that is lovely. Well done sir.

NGRhodes said:

My friend had one for many years. Lightly fettled. Was cheaper on fuel to tow by van to track days than drive.

This is exactly how they should be used.

They're not exactly frugal though.

[adam.]

Binned off the rear blue tinged tints, and painted the aftermath of removing the wind deflectors.

[James B]

Gosh this takes me back. I miss my 5. It was a bit of a beast. Sold in the end to a Welsh rally team for use as a recce car.

[adam.]

James B said:

Gosh this takes me back. I miss my 5. It was a bit of a beast. Sold in the end to a Welsh rally team for use as a recce car.

Looks good, how many years are we going back?

[David-mthtml]

Miss my Evo 5, sold it to my mate who’s still got it. I’m in the market for another one but struggling to bring myself to pay the quadruple amount I paid for this one

[adam.]

David-mthtml said:

Miss my Evo 5, sold it to my mate who’s still got it. I’m in the market for another one but struggling to bring myself to pay the quadruple amount I paid for this one

Thankfully values are only going one way!

[James B]

adam. said:

James B said:

Gosh this takes me back. I miss my 5. It was a bit of a beast. Sold in the end to a Welsh rally team for use as a recce car.

Looks good, how many years are we going back?

Good question. I think it would be 2004.

[F1GTRUeno]

There's so much EVO porn in here it's wonderful.

The 4/5/6 gen are still my favourite of the lot and it's a toss up between the 5 and 6 for ultimate favourite.

TE37's look great on everything but especially good on this.

[adam.]

F1GTRUeno said:

There's so much EVO porn in here it's wonderful.

The 4/5/6 gen are still my favourite of the lot and it's a toss up between the 5 and 6 for ultimate favourite.

TE37's look great on everything but especially good on this.

Thanks!

The 6 was definitely the pinnacle of the series.

[TheAngryDog]

F1GTRUeno said:

There's so much EVO porn in here it's wonderful.

The 4/5/6 gen are still my favourite of the lot and it's a toss up between the 5 and 6 for ultimate favourite.

TE37's look great on everything but especially good on this.

I agree, very good looking cars IMO. The 5 and 6 are best with the flared arches.

Edited by TheAngryDog on Thursday 16th April 12:25

[K50 DEL]

The 6 wins it for me as well, I ticked the Impreza ownership box back in 2004/5 (only because with the mileage I was doing at the time the 4.5k mile service interval on the Evo ruled it out)
Would still have a VI TME in the dream garage but sadly I think the values are a little too much for me to justify nowadays.

Yours (both) look excellent

[adam.]

K50 DEL said:

The 6 wins it for me as well, I ticked the Impreza ownership box back in 2004/5 (only because with the mileage I was doing at the time the 4.5k mile service interval on the Evo ruled it out)
Would still have a VI TME in the dream garage but sadly I think the values are a little too much for me to justify nowadays.

Yours (both) look excellent

I do about 3k a year, in the dryer months, so once per annum is ok for oils. Everything else is all done on condition now.

I'm also down to just one Evo now, the old car sold just before lockdown came into place.

TheAngryDog said:

I agree, very good looking cars IMO. The 5 and 6 are best with the flared arches.
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Agreed. I think the TME front has aged better than the 5 and 6 counterparts.

[K50 DEL]

adam. said:

K50 DEL said:

The 6 wins it for me as well, I ticked the Impreza ownership box back in 2004/5 (only because with the mileage I was doing at the time the 4.5k mile service interval on the Evo ruled it out)
Would still have a VI TME in the dream garage but sadly I think the values are a little too much for me to justify nowadays.

Yours (both) look excellent

I do about 3k a year, in the dryer months, so once per annum is ok for oils. Everything else is all done on condition now.

I'm also down to just one Evo now, the old car sold just before lockdown came into place.

Yep, if I'd been doing that kind of mileage back then I'd have gone the E6 route for sure, unfortunately I was on almost 1k a week back then (it was a company car) so a Mitsi would have been in the garage once every 6 weeks or so which just wasn't practical.

[adam.]

K50 DEL said:

Yep, if I'd been doing that kind of mileage back then I'd have gone the E6 route for sure, unfortunately I was on almost 1k a week back then (it was a company car) so a Mitsi would have been in the garage once every 6 weeks or so which just wasn't practical.

The blue one on page 1 (the one owned by my Dad 1999-2005) was serviced every 10k or so. Had it from new, put ~107,000 miles on it, tracked it as often as possible, and it was an unbelievably reliable car. I don't remember it needing much more than fuel and brake pads!

[adam.]

I'd never liked the fact the car was completely stripped, so I set about finding a carpet, rear seats, parcel shelf, b/c pillar trims and centre console.

I can't afford a GT3 "Clubsport", so for moment this will have to do:

Before:





During:



After:





The console needed some fine dremel work in order to accomodate the CAE shifter, but I'm rather happy with the result. Should make for more comfortable journeys to the track.

[adam.]

I installed a PIAA HID kit, and took it for a quick spin around the village.

[adamlstr]

Finally got this out on track the other week, at long last. All was well until about 4.30 when the turbo let go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cveue0OT7MI&fe...

[Ruskie]

Just utter Evo perfection.

[clarki]

Looks great.

Had a 6 back in 2001. Moved on to an 8 a few years later. Did prefer the 8 to drive tbh, but the 6 is deffo the looker of the evo range.