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Hi, old fart reunited with an inline six wagon like the days of my youth and what a wagon!, I was looking for something bigger to replace my relic Sentra, something that could carry band gear & fit in a marshall stack easily. Only became aware of the Stagea late last year, I was sensibly looking for a basic one, rwd, n/a etc... One came up local but all the stuff I didn't want it had like sunroofs & awd drive but it had the honeycomb grill & 16" alloys which I do like. What really hooked me in the end was the leather seats - yes my purchase was based on this. Ducked out of work for an hour, checked it over in a rush, car was filthy, didn't even test drive just handed over a deposit & came back a week later.

Drove it on home...fark! all 230bhp of it!, the first thing I saw was the fuel gauge rapidly sinking after scarcely 10kms then realized when I got home it had exhaust manifold leakage...so that was the first job. Jump ahead 3 months, 6000 kms - I was suduced by this thing right from the start & it seemed it could do no wrong and yeah things happened but minor really, just maintenance stuff, I still adore this wagon.

Been a huge learning curve being my first ecu/injected, abs, atessa car, seemed like a space shuttle & so much ground to cover.

Thats where this forum has been a real help in getting to know the inner workings of this beast, thankyou all.

I had a 66 Holden HR premier over twenty five years ago, I turbo-ed it with a Rayjay unit, decompressed to 6:1 comp & ran 15psi boost, it could run 15 second quarters and rarked up the 351 Ford, 350 Chev guys. A blast from the past driving this Stagea.

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