Changed my transport

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:

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that\’s it for now