dude its just a frontmounted intercooler

 

Was in the mid 50's on van bortel's list. Called to see a white STI. Beautiful car!! But alas white was not what I wanted and will wait for any other color.

 

So were you the one with dibs on the White/silver STi that arrived with the VB shipment last Tuesday night?

My car was amongst that shipment, Silver/silver, and I'll be picking it up next Saturday.

- Janq

 

It's more a case of wishes & wants rather than cash in hand.

Many of the dealers I have talked with mention that their lines are either dwindling due to folks not having the means to procure the car or these same folks are asking to be put back in the rotation as they attempt to save up cash and/or sell their current vehicles. Myself and several sales folk think a good amount of people are using 'color' as an excuse to stay on dealer lists as buyers/wishers continue to skip meals toward saving up cash.

I know of two dealers with STi's in stock unsold due to _everyone_ on their list saying the color wasn't right (White & Silver). What are the odds of that?!

The bottom line is that the STi (and the EVO) largely appeals to a certain type of buyer that seems to be lacking a certain amount of funding. I'm sure dealers will be dealing on the STi and inventory will increase as the months progress. Just look at what's happening with the EVO.

BTW, I still have only seen three EVO's on the street since its March release, and I live in the DC/Metro area which is rife with late model cars. In fact, I have seen way more EVO's on the lots of local dealers (which are supposedly "SOLD") than I have on the street/highway. Now you have to wonder why is that when its supposedly a 'hot' car and everyone wants one & is supposedly getting one (?).

I guess they're all at the track.

- Janq

 

Great Britain is England

New England refers to Northeastern USA.
Lots of places in the New World have names that start with 'New'
Lots of them refer to places in England like New York, New Brunswick, New Haven, New London, New Hampshire, etc which is probably why the area is called New England. Maybe they were settled by people from those places in England.

 

I saw your car there!!! Silver is great!!! They got 4 cars this month, 2 white/silver and 2 silver/silver. I had originally asked for any color but white but I did come very close to buying it. If it was white with gold I probably would have bought it. I saw a java black on a turbo forester. That is a great color also.

 

Cool!

I was supposed to pick-up my car (only 2 miles reported on the odo!) this past weekend by the F&I dept. dropped the ball on communicating with my third party lender and they couldn't get a check out to them in time.
So I'll be flying up this coming Saturday instead.
I can't wait!!!

How long have you been on the VB list?

- Janq

 

I have been on the list since late Jan Early Feb. I have thought about getting a used S4 or even the Volvo S60R/V70 R but once I saw the STI I am going to go for it.

The only thing that concerns me is what I'm going to use for winter wheels. The 17 look like they are sculpted around the brake caliper. I don't want to go to 18 for winter but I'm sure not many 17's will fit. We'll see.


Sorry to hear financing dropped the ball. They actually called me about 3 weeks ago and I gave them all my info so I should be almost set to go. You should be able to get a great interest rate nowadays.

Good luck, let us know all about it when you get it!

 

I looked into the Volvo V70R too but having just come out of 3 _very expensive & annoying maint_ years in a new V40 wagon both my wife and I swore "Never more". Also I'm still a bit young & vivacious to be driving around in a Volvo, even if it is a 'hot rod' version.

Having owned a lot of Subaru's through the past 15 years it was a no brainer for me to go back and the STi best fits all my needs & wants. The winter wheels thing in my case is not a big deal as I have an SUV and a Legacy AWD for winter use. At first I was thinking of buying a relatively cheap set of skinny rims & tires for winter (snow) but from the looks of cost I'd be better served driving my truck or Legacy which both already have winter rims & tires in my basement. Plus the Legacy gets around in snow better than most trucks and its paid for so snow damage & so forth is of no concern.

As for VB, they were playing phone tag with my third party leasing agent and didn't get the leasing company the information they needed to write up the deal in time for delivery. Thus things were put off to the following week. I just got off the phone with VB and everything now looks to be moving smoothly & on schedule.
I'm not buying the car rather I'm leasing it. My lease money factor value is equivalent to a 4.632% APR over 39 months and a 50% residual with $0 cap cost reduction. All the info toward my specific cases was posted two weeks ago in my primer on leasing thread.

I'll definitely make a post once I'm back home. I have to drive it eight hours and 500 miles back to Northern VA. Alone, and with no radio....which should be fun. : |

- Janq

 

I guess I could just keep my outback for winter. I wanted something with lux and sport but it's hard to walk away from that STI.