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Hello All,

Some of you already know my story, so I'll try not to bore you too much.

Anyway, I have been a Nissan fanatic for over 10 years and still am. I started off in an immaculate Bluebird TRX and traded up to one of the first HR31 GTS-X RB20DET's in Adelaide. Unfortunately after about 2 years I sold the skyline to purchase a house. From then on I have been driving a 141kw 98 Camry (and hated every second of it). I have been cruising and associated with the SAU crew for over a year now, but only as a passenger in a pewter S15. Dammit.

Finally the time has come to sell the Camry and get a new set of wheels and thankfully I am able to salary sacrifice a novated lease through my work. My only criteria was that it had to be a brand new car. Unfortunately the 350Z was out of my price range and there are no other brand new Nissan's worth worrying about. Therefore there was no other choice value for money, performance, handling, etc other than a new WRX.

Therefore I have turned to the dark side and in about 6 weeks (some time in June) I will be taking delivery of a brand new Black MY04 WRX Hatch.

I absolutely cannot bloody wait. :D

Cheers,

Stu

PS. Hope I am not going to cop to much of a bagging over buying a Subaru. But I am a Nissan man at heart.

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my r34 is a work carr, got cheap finace on it... u should have done your

Hello All,

homework a bit more...

Some of you already know my story, so I'll try not to bore you too much.

Anyway, I have been a Nissan fanatic for over 10 years and still am. I started off in an immaculate Bluebird TRX and traded up to one of the first HR31 GTS-X RB20DET's in Adelaide. Unfortunately after about 2 years I sold the skyline to purchase a house. From then on I have been driving a 141kw 98 Camry (and hated every second of it). I have been cruising and associated with the SAU crew for over a year now, but only as a passenger in a pewter S15. Dammit.

Finally the time has come to sell the Camry and get a new set of wheels and thankfully I am able to salary sacrifice a novated lease through my work. My only criteria was that it had to be a brand new car. Unfortunately the 350Z was out of my price range and there are no other brand new Nissan's worth worrying about. Therefore there was no other choice value for money, performance, handling, etc other than a new WRX.

Therefore I have turned to the dark side and in about 6 weeks (some time in June) I will be taking delivery of a brand new Black MY04 WRX Hatch.

I absolutely cannot bloody wait.  :D

Cheers,

Stu

PS. Hope I am not going to cop to much of a bagging over buying a Subaru. But I am a Nissan man at heart.

the bug eye car... sorry but i can't stand the new wrx, looks like a girls car

the older shaped ones are alright, my98 etc...

did you look into your novated lease properly?

after a bit of hassling and stuffing around i got my 33GTR through a novated lease... i got told the same thing - you can't do it etc.. but i chased it up and hassled people and it worked :)

what company is your novated lease through?

i love the new wrx, i wouldnt actually mind getting one. congrats for going back to turbo though, now you wont have any withdrawalS except for the need to whip out sideways in a rear wheel. hurry up and chuck an exhaust on so you can get the loud ass wrx beat going on.

The new model i think myo2 up doesnt have the ugly round eye bug look its tougher. id get silver and dump it with fat dark coloured rims, either copper or greyish

thanks for the feedback guys.

ferni - each to their own mate, no problems if you don't like it. That's why everybody has different cars. Not sure if I am supposed to take offence to the 'looks like a girls car' comment. Looks aren't everything and I think over the years the WRX has proved itself time and time again performance and handling wise. It would be a pretty boring world if everyone was driving around in the same cars. Yeah I don't really like the bugeyed WRX's either, hence my decision to get the brand new rex which has the revised front and rear lights. Having spent the last 10 years or more hanging around Nissan clubs and the cruise seen I don't think the Nissan blood will ever leave my body. And I plan on hanging around with the SAU crew for as long as I'm welcome. The lease is through LeasePlan.

My lease also includes insurance (done through my company) that I don't think anyone could come close to beating. I'm only 26 and the premium is only $500 per year. That was another reason for taking the lease option as there would be no way I could warrant spending huge dollars for insurance on a WRX.

It's not that I couldn't get an import. Just didn't want to I've already had one and as I said I wanted a brand new car that I could be happy in for the next 5 or so years and the new WRX got the guernsey. It's bloody quick as standard, the 4 doors is so bloody practical and it handles pretty damn well.

I choose the hatch as I didn't really like the lines of the WRX sedan. It just doesn't look quite right to me. And besides I do some sled dog racing with my dog 'Nismo' and it's so practical to have the hatch to throw all the crap in.

Dean I am absolutely hanging to come out on another one of those crazy hills runs with you. Although I think I'll take a bit of time learning how to drive an AWD and find it's limits on my own.

Steve - love the idea mate. Unfortunately I don't think I could change to subarustu doesn't have the same ring to it. Funny you should mention that though as I have joined a number of WRX forums to see what they were up to and still joined with the nick 'nismostu'. They will be wondering what's going on.

Cheers

Stu

I've driven a few WRXs, and they are very nice, quick cars. I loved driving in the wet around corners and round-abouts in them. Totally fun!! :(

Congrats mate, I hope you enjoy your new car. They are very well built, and in some ways quite under-rated. If I had the budget I'd *personally* get a STi, but for now, I'll keep searchin for my R34 GTT.

All the best and happy driving! :)

sounds good champ: yeh i think the new wrxs look horn!

ALso i think ur new nick should be STI STU hehe. i hear them rexies are fast thru the twisties, well soon see :rant:

I luv the look of those WRX hatches, i would luv to load one with STi mods and go from there with it........Hmmmmmm Rossi feels his next project coming on!!!

nismostu - sorry wasn't meant to be a pay out on you or you choice, didn't know how to compare it... the older wrx looks good/mean etc.. where as i find the newer ones look like the other 'typical' girl cars, pulsar/barina/corolla etc.. the smaller ones.. not saying guys can't drive them, just thats generally what they are classified as...

thats a good price for insurance - wonder what it would of been on a GTR.. i'm 23 and i got mine on my GTR for 1400....

the build quailty of subarus are generally excellent, my mate has a B4 and i love it.. the looks could be better, but the interior is awesome and it drives so smooth/nice

ferni - no probs mate. No need to apologise. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. If that is your car in your avatar it looks like you have one sweet GTR. How long a lease did you take out? Mine is for 5 years.

The insurance setup we have through my company is awesome it doesn't matter how old you are, where you park the car or anything. As long as the finance amount is under $55K you will pay $500 per year. Really to good to pass up.

I would have really liked to have stretched myself to get the STI but decided the WRX hatch would do the trick.

Cheers

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