Ditching our Impreza
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:58 am
Long story short - Been a Subaru enthusiast forever, had a wrx with 10k in engine work. SOld it for something more practical - a 2008 impreza hatch. HATE the impreza with a passion. Also have an sx4 crossover which is my car. Wifey drives the suby and hates it more than I do. I love my sx4 and think it might be one of the best kept automotive secrets out there. My inlaws have 3 sx4's and our dealer loves us. Went to look at an AWD kizashi today and the owner of the dealer let us take it home with us for a couple of ours to see if the baby seat fit. Totally was not expecting to do more than kick tires. GORGEOUS car. We loved everything about it. Only thing I was sad about was no heated seats, but I smiled again when they showed me the heated mirrors. Dealer made us an offer that if we trade our impreza and pay 750 bucks, we walk away with the kizashi, which has 32 k less miles than the impreza and none of the issues that the impreza has. We still have 2.5 years of payments left on the suby and I was very surprised at this offer. We are in love and going to buy it on one condition.....Anyone know what kind of insurance risk it is? Our impreza is very low risk and rated very highly even though it does not have side curtain airbags or 4 wheel disc which the kizashi has....I am praying you guys tell me it is dirt cheap to insure because we want this car so badly. It's an SE demo with 8k on it and it has been babied. Dealer is offering us the gas card, low financing for 5 years, and the brand new car warranty. They only want 18k for it and it retails for 24...It helps that between us and my wife's parents we have bought 4 new suzukis from them in the past 2.5 years otherwise we'd not be getting this kind of a deal. Originally we were gonna go for another sx4 crossover until he showed us this car for the same price....It's late, my wife is 9 months pregnant, and I am exhausted so please excuse this horrendous excuse for an introduction....More to come when I am feeling sane again. Any info about insurance would be greatly appreciated! Other than that, we have already made up our minds to buy it because it is one hell of a vehicle.