Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I remember him driving it away from the Crabtree one night in a blaze of noise, thinking: "that sounds appallingly juicy..."

From memory, that evening it went wonky again.

It then got fucked when his mum drove under it in her S2000.

I'm just trying to work out how that could happen!

That age of Range Rovers are neither horse nor mule. I get going for an early one or an 80s one, or going for a modern one (if that's what floats your boat) but I find the P38 a bit meh.

Does anyone have a list of pros and cons for 2.5L Subaru Legacy estates of 2010 era?
I will own one by Sunday lunchtime and I have only driven it for 45 mins but already love it infinitely more than my hateful A4.

2010, is that a gen4 or a gen5? (are the doors framers?)

I used to have a gen4 2005 3.0l spec B - was a wonderful car but rather thirsty.

Given that a) Oil is going to be $10 a barrel shortly and b) those lovely Tories have kept the fuel duty frozen for the sixth year I suspect that fuel consumption is not the spectre it once was.

I'm buying 2,500 cc injectors and a turbo charger that strongly resembles a main-stage oxidiser pump.

On a different note, anyone remember my car stopping when it got really hot? It's at the mechanics at the moment, he left it idling for three hours as a test, ECU got to 67 degrees with the car sitting there at 800rpm, this was in ambient temps of ~6 degrees.

He reckons the ECU was getting way, way too hot and was crashing, so he's fitted an over-ride switch that brings the fan on (which he usually fits for trackday use) that can be used to turn the fan on in traffic.

I must own this: http://www.blocket.se/orebro/Chevrolet_Corvette_SportWagon_1_av_6_65018133.htm?ca=8&w=1

I have an 04 L322 petrol V8. I love it, its brilliant for lugging bikes/crap everywhere and still has enough poke to cruise at 80+ without fuss and overtake as required. Be ready for the cost if you're thinking of one - 19mpg is certainly the best you'll see. We only put about 5k miles a year on it so it doesn't bother me much.

Every service costs a lot as well - most of the parts are ridiculous in terms of costs. In fact it's due a service next week and I suspect it needs new rear pads and discs as well as a repair to the blowing exhaust. Will be buttock clenching I imagine.

Could explain the air-con link to the stalling problems too. Air-con condensers can chuck out a fair bit of heat. Could you just rig up a small PC fan to waft cool air over the ECU? Or move it somewhere a bit cooler?

I'd rather have the Daytona shooting brake. And I'm much, much rather have a DB6 shooting brake. But yeah, that's not bad...

If it's anything like my 2006 outback it will be a bit soft but will go everywhere, regularly return 30mpg and 36 on a run. It will surprise you when you chuck it about at higher speed, the low C of G really is noticeable.

It will use some oil, bit not a massive amount.

It will eat drop links.

The air feed to the ecu comes from the rad, so when the aircon is running the ecu is getting very hot air, I am seriously thinking about fitting a case fan to the ecu enclosure.

It's just had new front shocks and cambelts for its service in December and is like new all round. It feels stiffer than my A4 and that does 850 miles to a litre of oil so I doubt it will be worse than that. Thanks

Enjoy! Subaru's are the 'Functional cars, not anti, not porn' of the car world. Thread idea:)

7k a year? I wouldn't (and don't need to) splurge that on the Maserati - an Italian classic oozing race heritage. But on a Range Rover? Please, it's just a designer tractor.

You drive an Audi? Please don't perpetuate the vicious rumour that all old bill are b@stards.

JDM twin turbo?

Also skyline estates.....JDM ones seem amazingly goodie packed

Lot of horseplay in here tonight. cracks chaps

I am an utter bastard but I have only owned the thing for a year. I despise it so I know the car can have only augmented my bastardidity a little bit. It was a toss up between keeping the Audi and buying the Ducati we conversed about or buying this Subaru so I did exactly what Mrs S told me to.

I'll put a towbar on it then my bike carrier will fit and it will be everything I need. Truly functional.

Water cooling for the ECU?

Nowhere to reposition it?

That seems like quite a niche issue.

Also apologies for not sorting the detailing out. Will do it as soon as it's back from the mech.

Not yet! Give that heritage oozing Italian classic time.

Mech is convinced that the new fan-over ride switch will resolve this issue, we shall see.

If it doesn't then nuclear option is moving the ECU into the cabin, first option to try is going to be more extraction/air flow, water cooling strikes me as one more thing to go wrong but we shall see.

Yeah I get you. I had a plate made up as small as legally possible (as I got pulled several times and eventually fined for having a plate that was too small - arguably my fault for living and parking opposite a police station at the time) and just mounted it lower down so I still got the scraping warning sounds ;)