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Originally Posted by regal
I agree and I think this is where Tada really dropped the ball. He specifically did not want a turbo. He wanted the NA throttle response. His youth/inexperience missed the fact that a high compression DIT is a much different animal than even the last WRX. A DIT engine can have throttle response that is very very good. A big missed opportunity that would have added little cost to the car. Hell a $14k Chevy Sonic has a DIT engine and test driving one you would never guess it had a turbo.
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You can still tell, even in the best current turbo cars. The lowest-lag turbo car I've ever driven is a brand new F30 BMW 335i, which has direct injection, a small twin-scroll (fairly low boost) turbo, and it's a fairly large engine (3.0L, which helps with spool up time) and all kinds of fancy electronics, and my Cayman's throttle response is still very noticeably better. Personally, I think the best all around option would be a supercharger, but I also have a thing for high-performance NA engines. Turbos are (in my opinion) kind of a necessary evil - I understand that they let you get more power than any other option, and are more efficient, but I don't think they give you the same experience. I like the noise a naturally aspirated engine makes, I like the instantaneous throttle response, the ease of modulating it mid-corner, and I've never driven a turbocharged car that can compare.