+- TT Website Forum (https://www.ttwebsite.com/forums)
+-- Forum: Isle of Man TT Website (https://www.ttwebsite.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Forum: General Discussion (https://www.ttwebsite.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=137)
+--- Thread: NO Subaru laps (/showthread.php?tid=19800)
NO Subaru laps - Steady the Edward - 30-05-2015
I hear a rummer that there are to be no Scooby laps this year ??? eeeh by gum who would a thawt such a thing ??? fancy that ! scraping them now I don't give a s--t ,
.
RE: NO Subaru laps - BcakWeleher - 31-05-2015
Good.
And something I'd like to know the answer to.
You are building a hot car with a fast engine, great handling etc etc etc
At what point did somebody decide to make it so PIG UGLY!!!
Very selfish of you to have a Subaru. You get to enjoy all the good bits and best of all whilst you are driving it you can't SEE IT. Spare a thought for the rest of us who have to look at the thing.
RE: NO Subaru laps - muz66 - 31-05-2015
Well said!
RE: NO Subaru laps - Alfie Noakes - 31-05-2015
Not sure if you mean the timed laps or the course car procession .. I was over last week and the Subaru's were all lined up in the pit lane.
RE: NO Subaru laps - Dingocooke - 31-05-2015
(31-05-2015, 09:46 AM)Alfie Noakes Wrote: Not sure if you mean the timed laps or the course car procession .. I was over last week and the Subaru's were all lined up in the pit lane.
You can still pay Regency £1600 for a TT package for this year which includes a lap in a course car, so Im guessing only the lame speed record attempts have gone??
RE: NO Subaru laps - serowmaster - 31-05-2015
you would struggle to get a fiver out of me for a ride in one of those things and anyway the TT is supposed to be a bike event not a cager event
RE: NO Subaru laps - Dingocooke - 31-05-2015
(31-05-2015, 07:08 PM)serowmaster Wrote: you would struggle to get a fiver out of me for a ride in one of those things and anyway the TT is supposed to be a bike event not a cager event
Absolutely!! The record attempt car was interesting to me for one reason, watching at a couple of points, the course inspection car was quicker (on the stop watch), and I thought the comments made after his last run were disrespectful to the sidecar crews. Still glad they're gone!!
RE: NO Subaru laps - Steady the Edward - 31-05-2015
It is the timed lap that has gone they are still providing the rest , that will do me , have admit that our response car is a nice bit of kit apart from the electric opening tail gate , that is rubbish
RE: NO Subaru laps - jimmy182 - 01-06-2015
I must be the only one on here that enjoyed it. Scared the life out of me heading towards the creg when I was behind the barrier last year. Thought he wasn't going to turn. Breaks up the day a bit imo.
RE: NO Subaru laps - laverda77 - 01-06-2015
For me , when in the company of car nuts, ( my family members) they get excited looking at subarus, I just think they look like a rubbish 80s jap car, I'm sure there fast ,but you know your a biker when these things do absolutely nothing for you.I remember buying Citroen visa diesel, and my workmate said you could have bought a Opel manta for that money,that car too did nothing for me too however the Citroen got nearly 70mpg,cos when you've an Italian super bike on the road, it's going to take one special car to give such a thrill.so subarus going round for me ,let me go and get another okells.
RE: NO Subaru laps - Splashdown - 01-06-2015
Laverda77, you're talking my language.
I can get more excited over my 650 Transalp than ANY car. They just don't do it for me.
Done a few laps round the TT course on it, think I've been overtaken twice, and it's NEVER let me down.
I think that a car being expertly driven around the TT course would be an impressive sight, and probably better than twiddling your thumbs waiting for the next race, but I certainly would struggle to get excited about cars otherwise.
RE: NO Subaru laps - Alfie Noakes - 01-06-2015
I'll happily admit to having owned an early unmodified standard Impreza Turbo - not blistering fast with 220bhp and 4wd, flimsily built, noisy and cheap inside, not very pretty, low teens mpg if you're using it properly but I didn't buy it for any of those considerations, I bought it for pure direct feedback and hands on control and I couldn't fault it particularly on damp roads. I havn't driven another car so easy to drive with confidence at high speed, the later models have bigger this n that, driver assistance, more power etc but they've lost their way when it comes to feedback given to the drivers hands feet backside etc. You'd be doing well to fault Mark Higgins commitment to the course in that car as well.