STi Nut
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- Joined
- Dec 30, 2005
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- Location
- Adelaide, Australia
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- 2008 Toyota Yaris 1.3L 5 Door Auto
the other night we were given a 2008 STi to drive for a little time, well my uncle was given the car and then he passed it onto us for an hour since he wasn't really interested in the car. It is the only one in the country at the moment, the actual lunch for the car isn't till early February in australia, the only reason we got the car was because the dealer that lent it to us is very high up in subaru and managed to pull a few strings to get one here for himself.
The car when we got into it only had 300km on the odometer..... The car in total is a spectacular car and is a very big step up over the previous generations. this car had the optional BBS rims and full sat nav, the interior is to such a higher level to the previous generation, covered in leather and higher quality plastics. The twin dual tipped exhaust just look crazy and definitely turned plenty of heads.
Ride comfort is much better then the previous generations as the leather reccaro seats are a good fit, but if you were to put a coin on the ground and drove over it you could tell what side it is up ,
One thing that i found disappointing is that the exhaust note, i assume because of the stricter emissions laws that they have had to restrict it a lot, as inside you can just hear it and from outside it is still very quiet. Inside you hear the whining of the gearbox over everything else.
Other then that it is noticeably a little bit faster then the previous STi but we found that it was understeering a bit, we believe that this is because we hadn't played with the diff settings, since we only had it for an hour we just wanted to drive the thing.
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The car when we got into it only had 300km on the odometer..... The car in total is a spectacular car and is a very big step up over the previous generations. this car had the optional BBS rims and full sat nav, the interior is to such a higher level to the previous generation, covered in leather and higher quality plastics. The twin dual tipped exhaust just look crazy and definitely turned plenty of heads.
Ride comfort is much better then the previous generations as the leather reccaro seats are a good fit, but if you were to put a coin on the ground and drove over it you could tell what side it is up ,
One thing that i found disappointing is that the exhaust note, i assume because of the stricter emissions laws that they have had to restrict it a lot, as inside you can just hear it and from outside it is still very quiet. Inside you hear the whining of the gearbox over everything else.
Other then that it is noticeably a little bit faster then the previous STi but we found that it was understeering a bit, we believe that this is because we hadn't played with the diff settings, since we only had it for an hour we just wanted to drive the thing.
http://img149.imageshack.**/img149/3857/92156235ne0.jpghttp://img149.imageshack.**/img149/7822/23749482zj0.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.**/img149/1847/34ry3.jpghttp://img149.imageshack.**/img149/4104/11yg4.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.**/img149/5899/13vn0.jpghttp://img149.imageshack.**/img149/412/52gf1.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.**/img149/4779/43la4.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.**/img149/4029/40ot9.jpg