Faults:

Nothing at all has gone wrong with it, which isn't bad for an old girl.

General Comments:

When I was sniffing around for a Scooby, I was confronted with the choice of a UK Spec car or a JDM GC8c, and I'll be honest only an idiot is going for the UK spec car, as the first thing all UK car owners do is spend money on more power, why? When a Japanese car is cheaper and comes with the power already.

Mine came with after market exhaust and air filter, most Japanese ones do, the rolling road had it at 292bhp, which in a car weighing just 1280kg is plenty of horses to play with.

However there is transmission loss due to the nature of 4wd, meaning in a 60-100mph roll it'll take around 9 seconds give or take a 1/100th of a second.

Fast sure, from a standstill it'll kill 99% of cars on the road, but given the fuel economy not fast enough from a rolling start IMO.

So I spent £40 manual on a manual boost controller and upped boost to 1.05 kpa/bar, best £40 I've ever spent, brought the 60-100mph time down to 7.54 seconds, which when combined with a sub 5 second 0-60 time means it'll hit 100mph in under 13 seconds.

Under 13 seconds may not be supercar fast, but it's enough to beat almost any sub £30k car to 100mph, even the new Butt Ugly WRX STi.

Subaru don't built them like they used to.

Faults:

Nothing to date.

General Comments:

My dad bought a silver 5 door in February and ever since the first time I sat in it - I knew I just had to have one myself.

My car is white, has 17 inch gold alloys and a rare fully colour coded body kit - it's amazing how much better it looks than my dads, which has the standard wheels...

Faults:

Sticking passenger window.

Wrong 16" alloys fitted when bought second hand, replaced FOC with 16" STi Gold's (Auto Tecnica, Mirfield).

Stone chipped bonnet.

General Comments:

Excellent performance, road holding and excitement.

Paintwork chips too easily.

Fuel consumption heavy (performance car heavy).

Dull interior except for Prodrive seats.

Faults:

Nothing except some self inflicted minor accident damage. A Heavy "kerbing" in reverse managed to damage the steering rack!

General Comments:

Performance is great but the real knockout is the agility and composure in a wide variety of conditions.

Shame about the slight clutch judder when cold.

Faults:

Washer bottle leaked - warranty fix.

General Comments:

Performance/driving experience superb.

Occasionally clunky around town (prefers open road).

Interior not the best, but new models much better.

Headlights not up to performance of car.

Very difficult to know what I could replace it with which would offer same combination of performance and practicality.