Subaru SVX

[peewog]

I thought I had found the car to be buried in when I bought my SVX. Unfortunately I buried it first.

I had a 94 LSI with the all wheel drive. It is a heavy car and did very well in the snow. It also had an overdrive that truely scared the **** out of me everytime I used it.

The SVX forum was as friendly and helpful as this one. There I learned that there were only 14,000 imported between '92 - '97. I never had the transmission problem or the bearings, my problem was when I crashed it into a pizza delivery van. It never ran right after that and getting parts was difficult.

Until I bought the Miata this spring, I thought I'd try to find anothere SVX. Now I love the Miata and the SVX's are getting old. Not being mechanical, I guess I'll stick with the Miata.

But for those of you not mechanically challenged who love the odd stares and a nice solid yet powerful ride, I would recommend it!

Boy I loved that car!

is it a coincidence that I owned an SVX and now have a VX?

[thedutchguy]

I always thought the svx was to heavy for a "real"sports car.

[Chopper]

911s came in pretty much one flavor (for street use anyway) in the early 1970s...no GT3... and yeah... if you take an older 911 into a turn a bit too hot, feelin' the fronts begin to scrub, lifting to get more bite is not the answer.It results in a SNAP spin, way faster than anything I have the skills to catch. I don't know of another car that goes from push to spin so quickly. 8 tenths on is tricky. Wayne

[transio]

Wayne, you should drive an Elise or Exige! I think you'd thoroughly enjoy the experience!

[Joe_Black]

Steve, I'm beginning to think you get a regular check from the boys in Norfolk.

You would've loved what was in my friend's shop when I dropped the Ebony off for its cage in Atlanta. There was a '99 or 2000 Elise Euro-spec competition car in there, yellow of course. Street legal and race ready from the factory, even more bare-bone than the street car.

[E-ZooZoo One]

...a nice solid yet powerful ride, I would recommend it!

That was my impression of the SVX as well...
It seemed to be constructed like a vault - solid as hell... well, maybe not quite the vault-like build quality of a G-wagon, but certainly quite so for a 2-door passenger car. --- I suppose that I don't mind a little extra weight if it's put to good use.

But where the thing really impressed me the most was in it's amazing stability at speed. --- At better than 130mph, while sitting in the passenger seat (with a near-stranger at the wheel), I felt surprisingly secure... like: I would have been comfortable sitting there trimming my fingernails, as though I was sitting at home 'secure'.


By contrast (from the driver's seat, no less), neither of the two 928s could match that same overall sense of 'everything's gonna be fine - it's no big deal' - at 100mph... forget 130mph!

And not only that, the 928s' doors all felt pretty weak and sagged - they sure didn't go "WHUMP" when you closed them.


The SVX may not be a 'Supercar'... but it IS a pretty damned good car

[VehiGAZ]

Thread resuscitation...

E-zoo-zoo, are you anywhere near Morgantown, WV? There's a 928 S4 there that's been up for sale for a while, but it's just too damned far for me to drive just to see it (sooo many of them are in crappy condition!). Any chance you'd be willing to take a look at it for me?