I do not get why you call it a flat-4, it sounds so boring !!! I have always known VW Käfers, Porsches, 2CVs, BMW R Bikes and Subarus as Boxer engines !!!
@@shiTthebed86 he’s got more talent then all the presenters on this put together Watch his video of him and Ricky going for a night drive in an m5.. its amense
R estate is the perfect daily driver. Fun, fast, cargo and passenger space, not too old that it’s hard to find parts or will leave you stranded, can find them in manual, and they are common enough that I wouldn’t care if it got scraped or dirty. I literally see no downsides.
Really enjoyed this review (I had a bug eyed WRX estate, great car). I think it's probably fairer to describe this as illustrating a range of options dependant on budget rather than a simple 1 Vs the other. Subaru is nearly 30 years old and iro £5k, the golf is around 10 years old and iro £15k. That's quite a big difference and I'm not convinced you're comparing apples with apples.
I've had a Mk7 Golf estate for a number of years, Dragy tested it and did 0-60 in 4.68 seconds stock. Had a remap and a few mods running 400bhp costing £2k, now 0-60 is 3.5 seconds. Best all-round car I've had.
I've got a mk6 r hatch and it does the same to 100 kph it has an intake any other mods are unknown to me I have a turbo back exhaust and other mods to put on it and get tuned hoping for 400-450 so good to know from your experience I should get in the 3,s somewhere not many everyday cars doing that and yet it does everything else great.🤟
I had a 7.5 Estate. 4.4 to 60mph, in the wet. Timed with my VBox Performance box. 10 0.5s 20 1.0s 30 1 7s 40 2.4s 50 3 4s 60 4.4s 70 5.7s 80 7.2s 90 9.0s 100 11.4s 110 14 3s 1/4 was 13.0s dead
@@blitzrc4713 Haha, I have a 450bhp Fiat Coupé (1200kgs). It would absolutely rinse the Golf I had from a roll but you can forget a traffic light Grand Prix in the wet. It's hopeless. Those RWD cars you mention used to walk away from it. Vs 4WD cars, I might as well get out and walk 🤣
@KrisDocherty thank you, lots of late nights in work and help from friends. Have you got Facebook or something? Be good to chat to you about the history of the car in your ownership. Maybe you have some old photos to share
Had an Impreza estate 15 years ago was brilliant, currently have a golf r estate and for a modern kind of car it’s a very good allrounder. For a classic car the Impreza would be cool if you’ve owned it for that long you know the car inside out wouldn’t like to buy one today due to age hidden history. The mk7/7.5 a good choice for its current value. As long as you keep away from abused Rs you’ll be fine.
Love impreza's, I own a V5 STi RA Ltd, but at that age it will be a money pit and much as I am not an R fan, it will be way cheaper to run and parts are far more abundant. Mine costs me thousands a year to keep running and in reasonable condition. An alternative could be the legacy STi wagon. They are much newer and one on Auto trader recently for less than £20k and that is a fantastic bit of kit. Or how about an Evo IX Wagon...😈
WRX wasn't sold in the uk until the new age cars. The original UK car was a turbo 2000, with the 200 ish bhp. The car here is a JDM wrx which had more, more like 250bhp.
The Golf R is not fun…. I have owned many Gti’s and a Golf R… the latter was fast but the chassis was numb and inert. The GTI by contrast felt much more on tippy toes and therefore more involving and enjoyable to drive.
really? ive had both and thought the opposite, cant really tune the gti because its fwd and a bit pointless where as a bit of a tune on the R and its a bit of a beast
@@orbytl2799 precisely describes new age innit boys, just obsessed with adding power and drga race. Know nothing about driver enegagement, engaging chassis, chassis feel, steering feel, etc
@ 🤣😂ive been driving nearly 25 years and owned lots of cars, all types i know plenty about all the above thank you i also appreciate cars that are capable over cars that become a wheel spinning, torque steering mess with a bit of power
£5k for the impreza, £15k for the golf I'll gladly take the impreze, spend the money on bodywork and engine then still have change for the golf r money!
Without the boxer engine and firing order you dont get that unique subaru burble. You can fit an unequal header on any other car but you wont get the same burble as a Subaru.
If you can't even get the facts of the Subaru WRX engine noise right then don't trust you to get anything else right by your explanation every boxer motor should sound the same my Subaru outback and every old VW beetle or type 3 I've owned doesn't sound like a WRX nor do the 86 or brz..... unequal headers even a slightly educated car nerd knows this how can you get such a simple thing wrong?
The golf is a boring, soulless cheaply made, unreliable tat that is only bought by men with testosterone issues who like to meet up in a retail park and brag about stage 76833 tune and how they beat a granny in her i10 on the a406 😂. The Subaru is the real car enthusiasts car. All of the old ones will outlast the Golf.
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I do not get why you call it a flat-4, it sounds so boring !!! I have always known VW Käfers, Porsches, 2CVs, BMW R Bikes and Subarus as Boxer engines !!!
Good to see Sid going big
I just wanted to mention that the presenter is doing a great job. Keep it up 👍🏼
Great work Sid 👍
Good to see Sid 💚💯👊🏾
Sid is a fantastic presenter
You’ve made it bro, living the dream
Huh?!? Sideways Sid on 5th gear? I'm here for it 😅
Great to see Sid getting why at he doeserves
He’s really good at it
Nice one Sid! Golf R estate's look so much cooler to me than the hatch
If Auto trader have any sense they'll drop the guy they have and hire This guy and watch their channel finally grow. Go on Sid!
I thought Sid's gone. It's great to see him on the show again.
It's really not.
@@shiTthebed86 he’s got more talent then all the presenters on this put together
Watch his video of him and Ricky going for a night drive in an m5.. its amense
Calling sid a boy racer in post production after watching that segment is a tad disrespectful..
I do like the golf, but heck it looks grey and boring compared to that lovely impressa 😍
R estate is the perfect daily driver. Fun, fast, cargo and passenger space, not too old that it’s hard to find parts or will leave you stranded, can find them in manual, and they are common enough that I wouldn’t care if it got scraped or dirty. I literally see no downsides.
@constructionbootgazer I agree, but they look so drab and we'll all be dead soon 🤣
@@constructionbootgazerPlus, pre Dieselgate, so better quality.
I've owned both....... No chance you would go STI 😂😂
Piston Firing order & Unequal length exhaust headers/manifold creates the scooby rumble
Can get a header kit that makes it sound like any other angry jap car tbh 😅
Really enjoyed this review (I had a bug eyed WRX estate, great car). I think it's probably fairer to describe this as illustrating a range of options dependant on budget rather than a simple 1 Vs the other. Subaru is nearly 30 years old and iro £5k, the golf is around 10 years old and iro £15k. That's quite a big difference and I'm not convinced you're comparing apples with apples.
Sid tearing up Ricky's M4 🙏
When did sid become a fith gear presenter? 😮 congrats.
I've had a Mk7 Golf estate for a number of years, Dragy tested it and did 0-60 in 4.68 seconds stock. Had a remap and a few mods running 400bhp costing £2k, now 0-60 is 3.5 seconds. Best all-round car I've had.
I've got a mk6 r hatch and it does the same to 100 kph it has an intake any other mods are unknown to me I have a turbo back exhaust and other mods to put on it and get tuned hoping for 400-450 so good to know from your experience I should get in the 3,s somewhere not many everyday cars doing that and yet it does everything else great.🤟
I had a 7.5 Estate. 4.4 to 60mph, in the wet. Timed with my VBox Performance box.
10 0.5s
20 1.0s
30 1 7s
40 2.4s
50 3 4s
60 4.4s
70 5.7s
80 7.2s
90 9.0s
100 11.4s
110 14 3s
1/4 was 13.0s dead
@Trappygit my times don't get slower in the wet that's for sure and it amazes me high power rear wheel drive cars hate it🤟
@@blitzrc4713 Haha, I have a 450bhp Fiat Coupé (1200kgs). It would absolutely rinse the Golf I had from a roll but you can forget a traffic light Grand Prix in the wet. It's hopeless. Those RWD cars you mention used to walk away from it. Vs 4WD cars, I might as well get out and walk 🤣
@Trappygit I'm confident a 450 hp golf r would be way faster even with the extra weight unless you have a fancy aftermarket gearbox
Clicked when I saw Sid North
Thats my old impreza! Thought it was dead, an oddly I replaced it with an R estate….
Did you sell it to a lad in Liverpool by chance?
@ yes I did. I then got hounded for parking fines from john lennon airport the day after it was sold….
@KrisDocherty ah gutted mate, I've got her now and she's slowly getting put back to her former glory
@@mrimpreza8476 it’s certainly looking good.
@KrisDocherty thank you, lots of late nights in work and help from friends. Have you got Facebook or something? Be good to chat to you about the history of the car in your ownership. Maybe you have some old photos to share
sid the goat
Sideways Sid. Is that you🎉
Had an Impreza estate 15 years ago was brilliant, currently have a golf r estate and for a modern kind of car it’s a very good allrounder. For a classic car the Impreza would be cool if you’ve owned it for that long you know the car inside out wouldn’t like to buy one today due to age hidden history. The mk7/7.5 a good choice for its current value. As long as you keep away from abused Rs you’ll be fine.
Here the choice must be WRX Estate, just the JDM legacy 🤟🤟😍
The sound comes from unequal headers not just being a flat four.
Was looking for this comment. Would've been nice if they said that.
They sound so normal with equal length headers
WRX❤
Love impreza's, I own a V5 STi RA Ltd, but at that age it will be a money pit and much as I am not an R fan, it will be way cheaper to run and parts are far more abundant. Mine costs me thousands a year to keep running and in reasonable condition. An alternative could be the legacy STi wagon. They are much newer and one on Auto trader recently for less than £20k and that is a fantastic bit of kit. Or how about an Evo IX Wagon...😈
What is breaking on yours?
WRX wasn't sold in the uk until the new age cars. The original UK car was a turbo 2000, with the 200 ish bhp. The car here is a JDM wrx which had more, more like 250bhp.
208bhp in 94 and then 218bhp with the facelift IIRCA
Subaru Crosstrek is just as good ❤
We didn't get the station wagon mk7 Golf R in South Africa.
How does the 4th cylinder not get enough cooling?!
That Golf is like a smaller Passat ! The best ever Golf is the Mk3 !!!
A Golf R estate isn't a
"low end new car"
That's not what he said he said would you rather have a low-end "NEW" car or a high-end "USED" car for similar prices.
Haldex in the Golf is not the same as AWD in the Subaru. ;)
I want the Volkswagen Polo R WRC !
Wrx any day
The Golf R is not fun…. I have owned many Gti’s and a Golf R… the latter was fast but the chassis was numb and inert. The GTI by contrast felt much more on tippy toes and therefore more involving and enjoyable to drive.
really? ive had both and thought the opposite, cant really tune the gti because its fwd and a bit pointless where as a bit of a tune on the R and its a bit of a beast
@@orbytl2799 precisely describes new age innit boys, just obsessed with adding power and drga race. Know nothing about driver enegagement, engaging chassis, chassis feel, steering feel, etc
@ 🤣😂ive been driving nearly 25 years and owned lots of cars, all types
i know plenty about all the above thank you
i also appreciate cars that are capable over cars that become a wheel spinning, torque steering mess with a bit of power
Subaru without a doubt!
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Kryterium asów - Karowa🤘
"Despite being a manual...." Sheesh!
Yeah, these kids are privileged lol
Golf r is a good daily the scooby is a weekend car
Golf has a big steal me neon above it, the scooby dosnt
£5k for the impreza, £15k for the golf
I'll gladly take the impreze, spend the money on bodywork and engine then still have change for the golf r money!
I thought Sid was gone
I’m glad he’s not - The lad is a true car connoisseur and more importantly. He can F***ing Drive! 😎
Your man is too young, his age demographic 90% would choose the Golf R lol
I can't work out why the British always say Subaru Impretza when it's spelt Imprezza, not a t to be seen?
"Pizza"
It’s spelt Impreza
@ It's "spelled" Impreza.
There, I fixed it for you.
The odd Subaru sounds is nothing to do with the engine, but the exhaust set up. Come on sid, you know that
Nonsense
Without the boxer engine and firing order you dont get that unique subaru burble. You can fit an unequal header on any other car but you wont get the same burble as a Subaru.
nothing to do with the engine? u sure about that? ruclips.net/video/mg-Aa11wqeY/видео.html
That's my friends impreza and it's not 220hp 😂😂
Ive been in a position to buy an Imprezza so many times and gone for the alternate. Very over rated unless youre rallying it. Poor day to day car
Scooby
There is no such thing as a mk1 Impreza, these lot are utter amateurs..
If you can't even get the facts of the Subaru WRX engine noise right then don't trust you to get anything else right by your explanation every boxer motor should sound the same my Subaru outback and every old VW beetle or type 3 I've owned doesn't sound like a WRX nor do the 86 or brz..... unequal headers even a slightly educated car nerd knows this how can you get such a simple thing wrong?
can't compare the two. impreza are cheaply built crap
The golf is a boring, soulless cheaply made, unreliable tat that is only bought by men with testosterone issues who like to meet up in a retail park and brag about stage 76833 tune and how they beat a granny in her i10 on the a406 😂.
The Subaru is the real car enthusiasts car. All of the old ones will outlast the Golf.
Lol uv clearly never driven one
@@enzoUKSC lol you clearly are a liar, everyone knows the engines fall apart and rest of the car rusts. do you own one? lol
ive got a golf r estate, nice car but wish it came in a manual. the DSG is the worst part of the car imo. super clunky & unrefined
Airbag free aftermarket wheel, not a good idea if you value your brain.
That's the original Nardi steering wheel.