Do you need this car to take you anywhere? Is it at all important, or just a frivolous purchase for fun?
I’m asking, because you cannot count on an FD for anything, other than to be really awesome.
The Subie will take you to work, school, dinner, etc… The FD will eat your time and money. However, when the FD is running, the Subie could never dream of being even half the car the FD is.
Tough choice, I’ve done some research and read many reliability threads on FDs because I considered buying one before.
A stock FD “could” be daily driven however as far as I know gas mileage isn’t the greatest so another thing to consider. You’ll have to look into the general Rx7 “reliability mods” as the rx7 guys will say so you might want to consider those costs to daily drive a FD. You’ll hear lots of stories some good but generally they are bad lots of repairs needed to be done after 80-100k (mile).
General consensus is stuff starts breaking after 100k no matter how well maintained, and theres stories of people that has never had problems, but that isn’t the general population of FD owners. (speaking only on fd’s, FC models generally are more reliable).
better decide soon… winter looks like it’s coming early!
i’m sure it’s still worth the hassle of getting the fd within a couple of weeks, then selling it off in under 2 months and getting your wrx. if you really want it that bad then definitely go for it…but if you’re iffy about the amount of effort everything will take, i’d suggest just getting the wrx and maybe consider an fd for next summer at this point. just a thought.
By no means should you get an FD as a daily. Take it from someone that got a DSM as a winter car. FDs are pretty much the least reliable car in existance, even FCs are a lot more reliable because they don’t have the silly sequential twin turbo system.
90,000 kms on a rotary engine is alot… if it has not been completely rebuilt yet, it will need to be soon. like agent240 said stuff starts to break after 100,000
get the 05 WRX for sure.
im a big fan of rally racing, and have driven a few wrx. AWD in them is amazing!! go test drive one if you havent yet.
i personally would go with the FD if you dont mind driving RWD in winter, it can be a bitch. Also the note that when I go out I hate being a taxi, so since theres only one passenger seat, girlfriend. If you went with the WRX id go 05 just because they look better. I no nothing about the imprezas, besides that its got 4 wheels and a steering wheel
and solarian
my buddy has the same dsm as you … he has beaten the fucking shit out of it every day … and he has only spent 500 on rebuilding the head, car was off the road for a week or so…
right, so …I’m a dumb ass because you bought a piece of shit
what a flake comment.
“If you catch me in the mood that im in right now, i will do a direct trade” or whatever the quote was, either way… I dont think you should be calling me dumb .
Tim SHUT THE FUCK UP. You were on msn right after that telling me to buy that piece of shit. As I said, I can’t blame you, because I was the idiot that actually went for it, but I swear to god, if you bring it up again, don’t you dare show your face infront of me. I will fucking beat your 5 foot ass into a pulp. You have no idea what that shit cost me, and I will murder Jay if I ever see him. Do not expect much better treatment.
