Kauai is full of 06 Imprezas!

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Old 09-13-2005, 04:32 PM
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Kauai is full of 06 Imprezas!

Hello Hawaii folks, I just got back from my friends' wedding in Kauai and I was suprised to see so many 06 Imprezas driving around. That totally caught me off guard.. no bugeyes or 04-05s in sight, just a ton of 06s (with the new noses).

Anyone from Kauai on the boards? Those mountain roads must be great fun to drive on.
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yeah i guess the rental companies favor them alot
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ahh good point... they could all be rentals for all i know.
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Me and my wife just went on our honeymoon there and we noticed all the 06 imprezas too. I think one of the companies are renting them, wish I would have gotten a subie instead of that seabring, that thing was "the suck".
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when i first started vacationing in hawaii, Enterprise used to rent out RS sedans and wagons. they stopped carrying them about a year ago though.

still haven't seen an 06 yet!
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For some reason, car rental companies on Kaua'i really like to rent out Imprezas, and of course car rental companies update their lineups regularly.

I was last in Kaua'i in about 2002 or so, and there were bugeye RS's all over the place.
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Old 09-14-2005, 08:34 PM
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Yeah enterprise usually has a lot of subaru’s in their inventory. Mostly the impreza rs and the forester
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Originally Posted by Choku Dori
For some reason, car rental companies on Kaua'i really like to rent out Imprezas .
there is a good relationship with the distributor here (subaru of hawaii) who buys the cars back and ships them out to the pac northwest to be sold at dealer auctions--- it's great for the rental companies and it's great for the distributor(who has a chance to sell the cars 2 times) and it's great for our suby community by not saturating our local market-

only way we may be affected is by the kelley blue book- which factors values by specific region- (unfortunately hawaii does not have it's own region..even though we enter a zip code online)




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Now that's interesting info. Mahalo!
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Seemed like thousands of 06 Imprezzas and Foresters were there.

Only saw three WRXs all silver. 2 wagons(maybe the same one twice) and a sedan with Morettes.

Only one STi black and wingless following a EVO with a really custom paint job.

There were a couple of fmic hondas and old F bodies and vettes but it was pretty devoid of interesting cars.

The only car enthusiast stuff I saw was a quarter mile track out by Kekaha and a lot of evidence of drifting and sideshows on the western canyon roads.


We were really interested in moving to the place though. I have a career I can do just about anywhere.

Does Hawaii do smog checks with their annual inspections?
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i used to live on kauai. i bet most impreza's are probably rentals. i rented a forester the last time i visited. subaru's are great cars over there due to all the rain and mud on the roads.

waimea canyon road is awesome. i used to work up at kokea and loved it in my accord 4dr ex back in the day. wish i could take one of my cars up there now. btw, surf is great over there too!
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every day i see like 2 06 impreza rs that are rentals....well i see alot cause i live near waikiki
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