Adios STI

Lo and Behold, last week heading to lunch this is what I found at my workplace, parked next to me, it was exciting, maybe you can't relate if you've never been to Detroit, frozen tundra inundated with domestics.

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fx4me

Cool. The only 09 I've ever seen in person was on a car carrier going the opposite direction on a freeway.

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Dan

LOL at your license plate

Most places I visit for work, it's 90% domestic... and then my lowly Subaru ruins the neighborhood. I get quite a few people asking me how I like it, though, and that's my opportunity to say how great this car has been to me.

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Subaru_Convert

In my workplace parking lot, Audis, Mercedes, Acuras, Lexuses, and BMWs are fairly commonplace. I have to find out what these people are doing that allows them to make so much money...(I've since found out that these vehicles are owned, not leased.)

And then, I can try to emulate them, make more money, and spend it (first on repairing my Subaru) and then customizing it!

9GUY9

I see a Honda and a Nissan

Dan

Uhh, what Nissan? That's an '09 Forester.

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9GUY9

the black one in the second pic, its a Xterra or Pathfinder, or possibly a mini van

jtom

Thats a pathfinder. But your right, every other car is a domestic. I personally could never get myself to buy a domestic. To each his own.......

ScoobyDoobie

Nice, I am starting to really like the look of the 09's.

LOL @ your tags

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BAC5.2

Wow, I'm really starting to hate the 09. So ugly. Maybe it'll grow on me.

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1998 Forester S - Big brakes, Big Tires, 5-gears.

higgledy

I'd take a domestic over anything from Nissan, Kia, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, and anything built by the French.

integrale

Not even this:



OK; it may not be build entirely BY the French, but it's build IN France...

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MY06 FXT CGM - PPP +var. minor mods

Adios STI

Renault 5 GT Turbo midengine is what started my passion for Rally and ultimately for Subaru. When I was 9, I promised myself I would own one, that never materialized but I came remotely close in 1988 when I found a low mileage 1987 Black Renault GTA 2.0 which I regretfully sold a few years later.

And now the modern version of the epic Renault 5, the Clio V6 3.0 Litre, in my perfect car man garage it would rank No. 1, and yes you need to stuff the baby bloke into the bonnet, and be a proctologist to reach the recliner seat adjustments

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dman

I'll try not to take sides between US and "foreign" cars, though I have only owned two US cars and one US truck since I bought my first car in 1975. Here in Silicon Valley there are many US minivans, SUV's and pickups, but a US passenger car in the parking lot at work is usually in the visitor's section and has a Hertz or Avis barcode sticker on a rear window. And it's been that way for 25 years or so ....

Back in '79 or so I was designing a molded plastic part for my job, in Fremont California, and I was speaking with a rep from the molder (in Michigan or Wisconsin) on the phone about how to handle a design detail. He told me to go in the parking lot and peer through the windshield of an LTD, Caprice, or Gran Fury and see how the dashboard and A-pillar trim mated together. I told him that I was pretty sure there were none of these cars in the parking lot. He paused ... and then said, "That's right, I forgot you're in California, the land of fruits and nuts". At the time I was driving a Ford Fiesta (made in Germany), my boss and HIS boss both had Fiat 124's, and my new boss a few months later had a Porsche 912 and a Datsun (not Nissan yet) 710. Oh, and I saw my first Subarus around town, 360's, back in 1969.

-dman

runningdog

So was I. It was gold. My Mother called it the Golden Calf; she thought I worshipped it.