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When my girlfriend's Opel Astra 1.7 Turbo diesel SW started giving her some grief a year ago i told her that her next car will be a subaru forester....

 

In the last ten years that we are together she already knew to appreciate subbie quality form my two leagacies

 

Well, her Opel's ECU gave up the ghost two weeks ago so i jumped on italy's popular search engine and unbelievably, found exactly what we were looking for at first try

 

Reqs were:

 

1st series Forester (coolest looking IMHO)

No more than 100K miles

LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) system already installed

 

Well, so here she is:

 

 

 

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It's a 1999 2.0L 5MT forester, 106K miles, not very loaded with extras but that electric sunroof surely makes up for it!

 

it has a 12 galon Gas tank in place of the spare wheel, just like in my Leg, and overall makes the only  two decalred highly believable.

 

On the way to her place I did a little bit of "Italian Tuning", i.e. kept her almost pinned down for 15 minutes at 110 MPH on the auotstrada to get rid of all the crap and deposits, engine indeed felt even nicer after the high speed blast. 

 

My 95' Leg is in good health and has the same EJ20 motor, so am quite amazed at how much stronger this Forester's motor feels.

 

My lady is pretty chuffed with her new toy, let hope it holds up as well as it looks.

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tnxs guys

 

we wanted to do some white trails in the weekend but weather really sucked.... anyway, my girlfriend took to it like fish in water, loves it, specially the sun roof, even if we saw mostly drain drops on it :)

only trouble she was having was adapting to the more precise clutch engaging when shifting. We all drive manuals here in italy but her opel was softer than the forester in that sense. She was getting smoother as the weekend passed.

 

so yes, it's a 5MT with dual range.

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