Shale

Absolutely agree, Divine. This is the best outcome possible for a smash n grab. Arseholes get caught red-handed and the car returned to its rightful owner. Hope they get sent away, and drop the soap.

Worse damage has been fixed before. Admittedly the front is a little more serious to hit than the back, but I've seen worse damage. It's just that the parts are expensive, and she'll need a wee bit of straightening. The engine is the big question mark. Engines have survived that, but as Kami said, it COULD be rooted...worth checking. At the very least it's worth selling to someone who will fix it, saving to fix it or getting sh!tty with insurance. The back of my car looked FAR worse when it got annihilated by a rubbish truck (again, back is easier to fix than front, but worse damage has been fixed before). If it were mine, I'd be getting in there with rust prevention for the bits where metal has been exposed, pull off as much broken stuff as possible and start saving for the straightening and new panels. No need to wreck a perfectly nice STi over a punch in the face.

Bloody hell man!! :'( Not fun seeing all those cars parked in the trees! You are all so lucky to have escaped with scratches and soreness, something must have had your backs that day. Glad you're all in one piece.

I'd warm up to the idea of an STi'd one of these...the right colour, a proper wing, DEM WHEELS FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-... Bet y'all were expecting me to be all NAH N/A RULZ LOLOLOL.... but naaaaaah, this b!tch needs a turbo and four paws. Just like a man needs his nuts...

Hory shet. I had absolutely no IDEA it was that munted from the initial photos! But all good, it will buff out 8) Thank f*ck for cages.

People are still doing it? HERPA DERPA DERPA DURKA HURKA DURR.

Wish I could make it down for a nosey...think most of the AKL crew would, for many a reason. Kinda easy to forget how dangerous motorsport is (when you're a newf@g like me, hurr). Wicked gesture. Looking forward to hearing about it post-meet ;D

Bloody HELL are you one of the lucky ones!! So f*cking chuffed for you. Been there done that. If there's any damage, it's likely the boys over on the brown side have spare parts as needed. Might be time for some heavy duty security for the poor beauty huh.

Lmfao, I did this once. Resulted in a hilarious conversation with the Pres at the time. Would be awesome being the guy that gets all of the derps. Right Sean? Right? ;D

Rare to find 'em that tidy ;D And btw, my sister's new 1992 GT has 125,000km on it and looks to have spent most of its life getting a tan rather than being driven anywhere - until the nupty previous owner pulled the wastegate hose off and blew a piston to smithereens. So they do exist, but they are most definitely the exception rather than the rule. Keeping in mind that though they start to f*ck out mechanically at this age, the options for refreshing, replacing or outright upgrading motors are fiddly but very possible. It makes an otherwise tidy car salvageable in my opinion, and it's exactly what we've finished doing with this 1992 GT on the driveway. A few niggly bits and pieces, a minor respray for the roof and bonnet, and she's a winner. I see no issue in getting a tidy car for little $$$, expecting it to f*ck out...and either being pleasantly surprised, or very prepared for the inevitable and ready with a replacement motor the moment it misbehaves. The important part is bolded.

About to get a car complied myself and was looking at VTNZ, so would like to hear a list of reasons to be avoiding em ;D

Someone nailed it!! ;D Also, I thought 6MT was super strong too, til I watched Fastfour chew on his. Several times. Now that it's pretty much ALL BILLET, it ain't goin anywhere. Took a while to get there though. And there are several kinds of 6MT, the earliest being the most fragile. And evidently no, the days of DO A SKID AU are sadly not over yet. I blame cousins marrying. The moral of the story is, MECHANICAL SYMPATHY. I have one of the weakest 5MT AWD boxes of all - HX20s non-turbo! They are fragile as f**k and can't handle turbo power at all. And yet, 200,000km of abuse later, it's only just now starting to have domestics with the 2nd and 3rd gear synchro. I abuse my car, but I still have mechanical sympathy; nothing gets forced, but dear GOD, if there's motorsport about, I'm right up in there. It all starts with the nut behind the wheel.

I think the 'glass gearbox' reputation, personally, comes from the days where people stuck a massive turbo, spud cannon and skank whistle on their poor Subies and then proceeded to win da laydeez by dropping 7k launches everywhere without realising that AWD = no. Nothing wrong with the Subaru gearboxes if you don't drive like a Neanderthal. ;D

Dat Rothman's RS. There are far better pictures of that than there are McRae's WRC car around. FOND memories of repainting that in Photoshop...not. Wanna post more about what's under the hood? You know you want to. Do it. ;D

C'mooooooon, history D: The mixture of full 555, sanitised branding and straight-out Subaru branding as seen on McRae's Legacy from time to time was a nightmare for consistency in doing a project based on the WRC. Hell, finding great photos before the advent of high-end DSLRs is challenging. Probably giving the game away, but betting lots of you don't know there's an STi museum in Mitaka, Tokyo as well.

This badboy also: Have happily just sat and listened to it in the background instead of music, but have to keep flicking back to watch that mental driving. ;D It's a bit shorter and follows just one dude IIRC, but also glory.

I wish I had ban powers... his name should be on the wrong side of the swear filter D:

An example in using search, filling in the subject and message content fields out PROPERLY, and generally looking harder? The old one got deleted, the latest upload is a freshie.

I AM DISAPPOINT, SONS, as to how long it's taken to have this posted on CS somewhere. We've had it in the porn thread on DOBC for ages, and of course it made its way into the Flash AS3 exam I sat last month. McRae's handling of those magnificent but difficult beasts should surely be an inspiration to every Subaru driver. This is your roots, people

Fully concur. My car got taken for a wander with a Mongoose M60G...poorly installed, brain mounted by the steering column (WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS), but being ye olde innocent female at the time, I didn't know better. PAINFUL way to learn. Not giving anything away, they're gonna need bloody 2 hours to themselves now. (Last time I said this, someone tried to 'stalk' me here on CS and found every damn Amy in the country EXCEPT me ;D)

Haha, such is the way of the world. Blind them with epic jugs, then stun them with some degree of technical knowledge, order some of the best road/track tyres on the shelf...get mean deal.

$205. Keep in mind this was a VERY long time ago in tyre terms, and I have VERY sizeable breasts

I've managed to kill my RE001s in the face, to death. They're great until they wear down, and then it's all on. Haven't found this to be an issue with the RE-11 monsters on the car now, which have by the way gone far further than the old 001's. Will be interesting to see how the RE002s get on - if they're somewhere between the old 001 (which I won't miss) and the 11, then I could be interested...at least for the old Legacy. The Impreza's staying strictly on RE-11s. Actually the RE001s are probably why I didn't come last at the MM10 gymkhana Slippy and dead rears, but brand new RE-11s up the front refusing to let go. Bwahaha. +subscribed.

So much amen to all this. If you're getting snapped, you shouldn't be hauling so much arse. Inb4 BUT SHALE, YOU'VE HAD TICKETS LIKE EVERYONE! Yes, yes I have. ;D Easier to just keep an eye on the speedo and deal with it like a bawse. Slowly learning this lesson, as should everyone ;D

Lawl. Makes it all much clearer ;D If it's all just sound you're after, go hard with an axleback IMO. If done properly they bolt straight onto the factory stuff and save you having to munt up what's on the car just to fit a melon launcher of unknown origin. Easy as p*ss too, a few hangars and two bolts to wrangle and she's in.