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04-12-2018, 11:07 PM | #100 | |
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Oh, and what's even funnier than people saying they need 300+ hp, people who just buy the car and immediately decide they "need" performance mods.
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04-12-2018, 11:10 PM | #101 | |
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I guess muscle then. I just figured pony meant straight line car
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"Pony car" encompasses muscle cars and their entry level/rental grade counterparts.
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You are correct that it's not the same sidewall height, but I'm also assuming you aren't questioning that a mere 5% change in sidewall height is basically undetectable, and thus pretty much irrelevant when it comes to pothole-absorbing capability. Any perceived improvement is for another reason.
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In 93 I was shopping for a light pickup truck and while on a small dealer's lot stumbled across a virtually new (1,200 miles) 91 Eagle Talon TSi AWD. I had never drove anything like that before so took it for a test drive. It changed my mind on the light (ish) Japanese cars forever and I bought it. In 2001 it was worn out to the point it wasn't worth fixing anymore so I sold it and drove my 58 Ford as a year round DD for a couple of years. In 2003 I started working out of town and the Ford was not a practical vehicle for that. Mitsubishi had just come to Canada and I really liked the looks of the Lancer so I bought one of the first 100 yellow OZ racing rally editions to come into the country. Can be hard for the younger guys or US folks to understand but that was a very rare car here at that time and actually attracted crowds at meets. I went through the 03 and 08 Lancers and loved them but then got the 12 and despised it. Saw the FRS while getting my oil changed next door and it was love at first sight. The rest is history. So all in all I ended up in the Lancers and then FRS because they were/are incredibly practical for my needs. On topic, when my FRS was sitting in the showroom they had a staggered set up with the ugliest colour wheels (sort of a hazy pearl beige white) I have ever seen on it. Don't remember the actual sizes but it had 18" by 9" on the back and 18" by 8" on the front. My driving at that point was over 50,000 miles a year and there was no way on earth I wanted a staggered set up with about the most expensive sized tires you can get so I told them to put the stock back on it. Those narrow stock sized tires have served me perfectly during my DD activities for all these years and I have never once considered even needing wider.
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04-13-2018, 09:50 AM | #108 | |
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Tbh, I wouldn't call them that narrow, we just compare the 86 to many other larger or more powerful cars with massive tread and not the Nissan Micra's, Toyota Echo's, BMW i3's, etc, with like bicycle wheels..
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How many Evo's have you drove to make that statement? Especially since we couldn't even have them in Canada until the X came out. I personally have driven an 8 (in the US) and an X and greatly preferred the 8. Never drove a 9 so I have no opinion on how it drives but do think it was the ugliest of any version.
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Purely cosmetic opinion. I've only been a passenger in a X unfortunately.
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Idunno if we are thinking about the same car.
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