Impreza to Cerbie
Discussion
I'm looking to make this move at the end of 2002. I am wondering if anyone else on this forum has done so before me. I am interested in hearing comparisons of the driving experiences particularly day in, day out, in all weather.
I've had a quick test in a 4.5LW and a Tuscan. Didn't get on with the Tuscan. Didn't feel comfortable (reckon it was the floor hinged pedals and also felt twisted in the seat). Hated the interior.
Felt much more at home in the Cerbie, despite no headroom (I'll have to learn to have my seat more sloped back). However, I was surprised at how easy the cars were to trundle in. I was expecting them to be brutal, but they were pussy cats. I tried opening them up a couple of times but I'm not sure I was getting to the end of the throttle travel!
When I test the drove the Impreza originaly, the old 205 1.9gti felt like a right slow old dog. However the diference getting back into the Scobby after my TVR testdrive wasn't so night & day. I know the performance difference is at least as big a leap, but I guess the Impreza is so easy to access.
I've had a quick test in a 4.5LW and a Tuscan. Didn't get on with the Tuscan. Didn't feel comfortable (reckon it was the floor hinged pedals and also felt twisted in the seat). Hated the interior.
Felt much more at home in the Cerbie, despite no headroom (I'll have to learn to have my seat more sloped back). However, I was surprised at how easy the cars were to trundle in. I was expecting them to be brutal, but they were pussy cats. I tried opening them up a couple of times but I'm not sure I was getting to the end of the throttle travel!
When I test the drove the Impreza originaly, the old 205 1.9gti felt like a right slow old dog. However the diference getting back into the Scobby after my TVR testdrive wasn't so night & day. I know the performance difference is at least as big a leap, but I guess the Impreza is so easy to access.
I would think long and hard about the swap if you havent tried making good progress in the wet in a Cerb cos basically the scoobie will run rings around it. If you want good all weather performance and a leap up the power level go for an Evo7/6 (assuming yours isnt an import). I love my Cerb but i have a 2wd rover coupe Turbo which is far quicker in bad conditions so yours will be more so. the cerb aint as chuckable in the countryside either. its a bit like comparing an F1 car with a works rally car. Very hard to do really. Both have their strong points and on a dry not too twisty road the cerb WILL NOT be passed by anything. (yes i know Mc F1 etc are quicker but we are in the real world now). My advice (4 what its worth) is cough up a couple of hundred quid and hire a cerb for a day. Youll know after varied and prolonged driving if the car is for you.
Hope this helps. :-)
Hope this helps. :-)
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I tried opening them up a couple of times but I'm not sure I was getting to the end of the throttle travel!
If you're asking, you definitely didn't! Was it an standard scooby btw ?
And I think you're right, I was amazed how easy these cars are to pootle about in. But if you use all the throttle pedal travel and all the revs.....you're flying.
Cheers,
Andy.
Thanks guys
The current car is a bog standard 98MY UK Turbo. But like all the best boy toys, she puts out so easy! (Steady)
Pulls hard from 3000 revs all the way through. Can attack roads pretty much regardless of weather (though not totally, had an off once cos I ignored the weather too much). She is great fun, I love to her to bits and I am really glad that I have owned her.
However, she was only ever meant to be the stepping stone to a Cerb. I've certainly considered the EVO route, but it is only more of the same. Hiring a Cerb is a good plan but you probably only really know a car if you have lived with her for a while. I guess I could always go back if we don't get on (planning to buy the Cerb a year or two old, can't afford £15k first year depreciation, though of course red rose kit is a issue).
My favourite thing about a car has always been outright acceleration. The cerb had got to be the one here. Though I suppose off the line is probably a traction problem for the old "traffic light grand-prix" ;-)
I think the Noble M12 might be suit me but I can't afford new, and I reckon there will be a less ready market in them than Tivs in 2/3 years time when it comes to flog it.
Thought about a bike as a second vehicle to the scoob instead, but the Mrs isn't happy with that idea at all!
Besides I love my drive to work, wouldn't want to do it anything less than the best I had available. She's gonna have to be used everyday.
The current car is a bog standard 98MY UK Turbo. But like all the best boy toys, she puts out so easy! (Steady)
Pulls hard from 3000 revs all the way through. Can attack roads pretty much regardless of weather (though not totally, had an off once cos I ignored the weather too much). She is great fun, I love to her to bits and I am really glad that I have owned her.
However, she was only ever meant to be the stepping stone to a Cerb. I've certainly considered the EVO route, but it is only more of the same. Hiring a Cerb is a good plan but you probably only really know a car if you have lived with her for a while. I guess I could always go back if we don't get on (planning to buy the Cerb a year or two old, can't afford £15k first year depreciation, though of course red rose kit is a issue).
My favourite thing about a car has always been outright acceleration. The cerb had got to be the one here. Though I suppose off the line is probably a traction problem for the old "traffic light grand-prix" ;-)
I think the Noble M12 might be suit me but I can't afford new, and I reckon there will be a less ready market in them than Tivs in 2/3 years time when it comes to flog it.
Thought about a bike as a second vehicle to the scoob instead, but the Mrs isn't happy with that idea at all!
Besides I love my drive to work, wouldn't want to do it anything less than the best I had available. She's gonna have to be used everyday.
For what its worth, I recently moved from a BMW with traction control ABS etc etc to a Cerby. I have yet to see a dry day and progress is definately slower in the Cerb, impossible to get the power down, wheelspins at anything over 4000rpm.
HOWEVER as a driving experience I love it more than words can say! If you do ride bikes, the salesman who sold me the car gave me a great bit of advice in "drive it in the wet as you would ride a high powered bike in the wet". Just buy one, you will NEVER regret it, even when it breaks (like mine!)
HOWEVER as a driving experience I love it more than words can say! If you do ride bikes, the salesman who sold me the car gave me a great bit of advice in "drive it in the wet as you would ride a high powered bike in the wet". Just buy one, you will NEVER regret it, even when it breaks (like mine!)
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