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Originally Posted by Hydaral
I don't get asked these questions because I don't encounter a whole lot of "car people", but since you asked.
The base WRX is 30% more than the base GT86 (Evo might be around the same as the WRX, I can't be bothered checking), and I got the base 86 because the more expensive model didn't have anything I wanted. It was basically heavier, for more money.
IMO the WRX is damn ugly, seems to be getting more so every year. Ditto for the Evo. Too many electronics too, I wanted a "driver's car".
I dislike turbos too, I think of it as cheating, The engineering effort that went into the engine appealed to me. Although I hear the new WRX has a turboed FA20?
And the Cayman isn't even an option in Australia, way too expensive.
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damn.. I agreed with you up until the "turbo is cheating" argument..
If forced induction is cheating, then do you not agree we shouldnt have fuel injection and go back to manual carbs? The carb camp may think that fuel injection is cheating as per your same argument. Do you think our ECUs are cheating because there are no requirement for electronics for a combustion engine to work?
See where I'm goin with it?
No offense but it seems you need to learn a bit more about what you're comparing. The WRX fa20 is the DIT version. yaaaawn. Fixed the racelands issue, but still boring. An EVO is definitely in the STI segment, price and performance wise. I own a bugeye wrx and have owned a hawkeye.. they are simply not the car a lot of people envision them to be. Very tempermental pieces of poop that are great most of the time.... but there is no "most of the time" when it comes to high performance