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Originally Posted by FastWhite
Lot of good arguments on both sides. As always, very entertaining reading here.
I am 57, traded my fully modded STU STI for the BRZ. With the STI I was always looking for better handling. Yes,more power is nice.
The BRZ, put some sticky rubber on it and it out handles the STI. My opinion.
But I also had a love/ hate relationship with Fiat X1/9's. Those cars lived at 7000rpm all day long. Again need more power.
Subaru had a lot of waranty issue with the STI, UEL header issues, where cylinder 2&4 would always run hot. Throw in a ring land manufacturing defect equals blown engine. Now we demos the car,
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Another former STI owner here as well.
I sometimes think the search for more power is to somehow make up for lack of handling in that car. It handles quite well, though, but it just doesn't FEEL as well-handling as the 86, which handles as good as it feels.
We'll have to see if Subaru put any of its lessons learned from the BRZ's handling into the new STI. Despite still having the same motor, I'm told the 2015 STI is supposed to have ALOT of suspension and handling improvements, so maybe it'll turn into an absolute dream to drive (it's still $35k minimum, so no thanks).
I'm perfectly happy with my BRZ and love the handling so much more than I loved the power in my stock STI.