Hello Hawaii folks, I just got back from my friends' wedding in Kauai and I was suprised to see so many 06 Imprezas driving around. That totally caught me off guard.. no bugeyes or 04-05s in sight, just a ton of 06s (with the new noses).

Anyone from Kauai on the boards? Those mountain roads must be great fun to drive on.

 

yeah i guess the rental companies favor them alot

 

ahh good point... they could all be rentals for all i know.

 

Me and my wife just went on our honeymoon there and we noticed all the 06 imprezas too. I think one of the companies are renting them, wish I would have gotten a subie instead of that seabring, that thing was "the suck".

 

when i first started vacationing in hawaii, Enterprise used to rent out RS sedans and wagons. they stopped carrying them about a year ago though.

still haven't seen an 06 yet!

 

For some reason, car rental companies on Kaua'i really like to rent out Imprezas, and of course car rental companies update their lineups regularly.

I was last in Kaua'i in about 2002 or so, and there were bugeye RS's all over the place.

 

Yeah enterprise usually has a lot of subaru’s in their inventory. Mostly the impreza rs and the forester

 

there is a good relationship with the distributor here (subaru of hawaii) who buys the cars back and ships them out to the pac northwest to be sold at dealer auctions--- it's great for the rental companies and it's great for the distributor(who has a chance to sell the cars 2 times) and it's great for our suby community by not saturating our local market-

only way we may be affected is by the kelley blue book- which factors values by specific region- (unfortunately hawaii does not have it's own region..even though we enter a zip code online)




aloha from the summit of *-^-Mauna Kea-^-*

 

^^^
Now that's interesting info. Mahalo!

 

Seemed like thousands of 06 Imprezzas and Foresters were there.

Only saw three WRXs all silver. 2 wagons(maybe the same one twice) and a sedan with Morettes.

Only one STi black and wingless following a EVO with a really custom paint job.

There were a couple of fmic hondas and old F bodies and vettes but it was pretty devoid of interesting cars.

The only car enthusiast stuff I saw was a quarter mile track out by Kekaha and a lot of evidence of drifting and sideshows on the western canyon roads.


We were really interested in moving to the place though. I have a career I can do just about anywhere.

Does Hawaii do smog checks with their annual inspections?

 

i used to live on kauai. i bet most impreza's are probably rentals. i rented a forester the last time i visited. subaru's are great cars over there due to all the rain and mud on the roads.

waimea canyon road is awesome. i used to work up at kokea and loved it in my accord 4dr ex back in the day. wish i could take one of my cars up there now. btw, surf is great over there too!

 

every day i see like 2 06 impreza rs that are rentals....well i see alot cause i live near waikiki