Now, let’s spill the milk. The Forester has been joined by an MY07 STI Impreza,
a Hawkeye. But before we talk about the car and the plans for it, let’s start
with where the Impreza spends most of its time — the garage.
I took advantage of the kindness of my local council and, at a promotional rate
(dictated by the non-normative ceiling height), I became the tenant of a garage
in a very hipster part of the city, which fits the car’s character quite well.
The garage is nice, heated (the lowest recorded temperature during the winter
was 18°C), in a closed courtyard, but it has just one small (narrow) flaw: it
was built in the mid-1960s, in a building that once belonged to the Forests
Commission (a coincidence? I don’t think so!) and was designed with the
dimensions of cars from that era in mind. And while there are some people who
could fit into it sideways, see: