WR1 Owners Club

Hi everyone,

Very pleased to introduce myself as the new owner of 284. I travelled from just north of Birmingham to Southampton to meet Dave and see the car. Dave is top bloke, met me at the station and we spent the best part of 1.5hours chatting and going round the car - thanks Dave.

Never owned a Subaru before, so I am at the start of a huge learning curve - you will have to bear with me.

Like the majority on here, I have a love of cars. My background is mainly in BMW and VAG. But to my surprise my current daily driver is a Ford Mondeo ST220, and I absolutely love it. The latest addition to the family (284) will be my 'other' car - for sunny days/evenings/weekends.

I am rather OCD with cleaning and making sure everything is as it should be (like most on here I guess). I am also a big fan of finding local specialist garages and I have been pointed in the direction of Chevron Motorsport in Stafford, so booked in to the see them in 2 weeks, just to give the car a once over and make all is good.

About the car: very good condition inside and out, FSH etc etc needs a few things doing like refurb rims, install new stereo - I guess you may know more about 284 than me -

I have 3 lads aged 10,14 and 17 and their reaction was priceless when I turned up home with a new car (they had no idea)

Anyway, great to be here and looking forward to getting to know you all.

Cheers
Neil
Staffordshire.

Welcome to the club

Woooahh another one in the local area. Getting too common Welcome to the club

Tom

Welcome to the club!

thanks everyone

Where abouts are you DCFCtom?

LordG wrote:thanks everyone

Where abouts are you DCFCtom?

Im not far from the Britannia Stadium. Im guessing your more Stafford way??

further south, Lichfield

How does the st220 compare to the Wr?

Gary75 wrote:How does the st220 compare to the Wr?

cant even compare them, its like comparing a Butcher knife with a surgeons scapel.

The ST220 is a fantastic everyday, up and down the motorway car. The V6 is superb and sounds lovely with a Miltek exhaust.

The WR1 (only after a 3 hour drive) is just a different totally beast. Handling, power, ride, sound track, feedback is all so different. Better? not sure, don't want to compare because I brought the cars for very different reasons.

So, they are both fantastic cars for what I need them for

LordG wrote:

Gary75 wrote:How does the st220 compare to the Wr?

cant even compare them, its like comparing a Butcher knife with a surgeons scapel.

The ST220 is a fantastic everyday, up and down the motorway car. The V6 is superb and sounds lovely with a Miltek exhaust.

The WR1 (only after a 3 hour drive) is just a different totally beast. Handling, power, ride, sound track, feedback is all so different. Better? not sure, don't want to compare because I brought the cars for very different reasons.

So, they are both fantastic cars for what I need them for

You will need to learn how to drive the wr1 fast compared to a typical rapid fwd car. Suggest you do a track day in the wr1 and get an instructor to show you how to drive it fast. Once you get the technique grasped not a lot will keep up with you on the twisties as it does handle very well.

Welcome to the club, I'm from Staffordshire as well.

Warm welcome mate, post some pics soon as you can. Enjoy your one.

SteveS wrote:Warm welcome mate, post some pics soon as you can. Enjoy your one.

Hi Steve - I have just created this thread (plenty of pics)

OOOpppss just seen them mate, and very nice too.

A warm welcome to the forums Neil.

just outside of tunstall here. Welcome to the club.