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Check out what i found.
Was reading Automobile magazine, and noticed an add for model cars. (dont get your hopes up...read on)
So i go to their website, and put SVX in to the search. And i come up with this: http://www.ewa1.com/cgi-bin/sshp/sho...d%3E&storeid=1 If anyone is in to collecting this stuff, here's a definate must-have, and for a pretty cheap price. <thinks> Maybe i should buy a bunch, and eBay then for twice the price...buahahah </thinks>
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Good Find.
I used to get that magazine every week when I was a teenager. Next time we visit my parent's (probably Christmas) I'm going to look through the pile and see if I've got that one. If I do then I'll scan the article and post it here. Phil. |
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How's this for thread archeology?
I found that magazine and a couple of others which I don't think have been posted before. |
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Another article from the same issue
Last edited by b3lha; 03-17-2004 at 05:03 PM. |
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One from 7th August 1991
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Finally, from 21 Feb 1990, spy shots of a LHD prototype with US-style turn signals testing in Death Valley.
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I find it very interesting that in the third article it says Subaru was predicting sales of 10,000 SVXs a year in the US.
Of course, if the automotive press was any indication, the car was a smash hit.
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A good bit of digging Phil.
I did notice that one of the tests(by John McCormick) showed pictures of the US model, but the text talked of the VTD (as a 60/40 front rear torque split, doh,got it back to front), but in the road test, they talk about understeer. I think a lot of the tests that we read, were not actually done on the Euro version, but taken from the US Road & Track testing. From what I have read they did the same, talked of the VTD Euro version but drove the US version. Did any mag actually road test a Euro version?. There should be a bit of difference in the handling, no understeer, and the quicker acceleration, with the lower diff that we have. Harvey.
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You're right Harvey.
I think a lot of what's in the magazine articles is lifted from Subaru's promotional material. Sometimes I wonder if they've actually even driven it themselves. I've seen a few road tests where they test a RHD car, but the engine photo has the brake servo on the wrong side (indicating the photo is of a LHD car). I also have the road test that Autocar did when the SVX was launched in the UK. I think they actually tested it properly that time. I uploaded it somewhere a long time ago, but I can't remember whether it was here or one of the yahoo clubs. It's entitled "Better than a Jaguar XJS". The actual car they tested was at our UK meet two years ago, it's now owned by ChrisSVX. Phil. |
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Well Phil, if you think about it, there ain't many cars in Europe that are RHD (or wrong, as you put it ) ... is it ... ?
/Sonny
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The second article said "a product that will sell, come **** or high water."
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lol.. funny about the sales... usually magazines get different cars to test drive than they do to picture... happens all the time. get a show quality car to photograph, then they get one that maybe has a painting screwup or something to drive, and beat the crap out of.
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Harvey.
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