Having a lot of trips (around 1000km/week), low budget and nice people around, I got myself a better car :). This time I got Subaru 16GL (1986 year built) in almost perfect condition with low overall trip (~80000km).
Good things about this car:
- Very good condition
- Engine works like new, though I will do full inspection and maybe some renovations just make it completely perfect
- Saloon in perfect condition
- All buttons and whatever is inside works perfectly well
- Paint is like brand new
- Low fuel consumption. It needs less fuel than any of the cars I used before
- Fully equipped with fancy stuff like
- Central door lock
- Electrical windows control
- Electrical mirrors control
- Very comfortable seats (which is very important if you have to drive smthing like 200km/day)
- I got it completely free (thanks to Alexey)
- Quite cheap to fix if any problems (as people tell on the web)
- Very reliable (again as people tell on the web)
So now only few things I wanna do about this car:
- Give it for complete service/inspection in order to find out what needs to be changed (if anything) and make it perfect
- Change audio (I have this, just need to put it in)
Now just some interesting points about this car:
- Spare wheel/tire is under hood in the engine room and don\’t ask how they do it :)
- Handbrake blocks front wheels instead of rare ones (important to know before trying to do a police turn involving handbrake)
- It is not a racing car and does not have fast acceleration, though can go pretty fast on highways
- Very nice noise isolation inside, which will dramatically improve the quality of the sound :)
- Engine is 6 cylinders horizontally 3 on each side going outwards. Very balanced one.
I don\’t have my own photos of the car yet (coming very soon) , so for the time being here is how it looks like (found on images.google.com), but red color:
that\’s it for now