Warning! NOT BANGSHIFT APPROVED

[Beagle]

One of the great performance bargains available. I also would try the BRZ twins, like you did.

But my taste in cars makes me the red headed step child of the BS board.

HEY - I'm red headed. Wait -used to be. Now it's turning gray and jumping out at the same time! Nothing wrong with a Miata (that a 302 won't fix).

[STINEY]

HEY - I'm red headed. Wait -used to be. Now it's turning gray and jumping out at the same time!

Scared it enough to change color AND abandon ship?

Wow, I'm impressed......must have been quite the event!


And anyone who would pass on a WRX needs their mancard revoked. Traditional muscle it is not, enough fun to make you grin for weeks it is.

Bash not till you have experienced one for yourself - remind me what's not to like about a small light car with big power? Seems a certain ratio comes into play?

[TC]

Neither of TCs camaros would launch as hard as a stock one of these even if it they a 4 link and giant slicks.

OP, wait until you get tired of stock boost levels. There's an inexpensive extra hundred HP waiting in the wings ;-)

I love how you have no clue...... and an extra 100hp big deal, I can have an extra 200hp at the press of a button, that's my car making 700+hp and running easily in the 10's....... Next.........

[Barry Donovan]

Absolutely nothing wrong with liking that car. If you don't like the idea of an AWD turbo car with a manual transmission that handles better than most "performance" cars, you're doing it wrong.

I have an '03 WRX for a daily driver and love it.

Get a good tune on that car as-is and you'll like it even more.

I have been following the first launch of the EJ since 90..
that boxer will always be in a world of its own.

"like a subaru"
local, the big ones, they get even more crap than a feisty ea82..but maine is a real asshat anyway. I can only imagine what is going to come out of the woodwork with protected by antique status in just a few short years, the 2.0 that made these the champs. I heard one go by that shook windows..at 2 liters. All hidden away, too much trouble on the road.

learning the drivetrain beyond the market plan that hacked alot of weakness embedded..that is where the fun is..just like american hot rodding. It is big dollars and headache otherwise.

[Beagle]

I love how you have no clue...... and an extra 100hp big deal, I can have an extra 200hp at the press of a button, that's my car making 700+hp and running easily in the 10's....... Next.........

where's the flag?

fookit. I give up. Dude. put it down. Just put it down. You've killed off the slow and weak brain cells and you're getting into the good ones that are left now. You only get so many.... just trying to help. 10's. Ahhh. ya.


DWB, sorry to turd up your thread. I LOVE that your wife wants a hot rod stick shifted AWD ass kicker to get groceries in. There's no need to hang your head in shame, such as I have to do when driving my mom-buggy. Enjoy it man, I totally get it.

I suppose, if you want, we could all call you nancy boy, but it would seem to be a lie given the "Hell yeah, I'd drive it" you see in here.

I'd drive a steam engine freight train to work before I would walk given the choice, so my vote probably doesn't count. lol.

[Leadsledcaprice]

Next thing we know, there will be suspension mods, a turbo (or bigger turbo if it has one already, I'm not up to date on Subaru's).... the list goes on... lol

[dieselgeek]

I love how you have no clue...... and an extra 100hp big deal, I can have an extra 200hp at the press of a button,

OP is talking about a real subaru, not a playstation game.

[BluLightning]

We were thinking of getting one too, for a commuter for my wife,its only available in a manual and she spends alot of time in heavy traffic, so she might kill me, they had one at our local dealer in pearl white with 30 large on the window,I really wish an American mfg had something equal to this. Anybody ever drive one of those sporty Ford Focus' ? Any good?

I have one but it's not the new ST. I've had it for 1 1/2 years now and I love it. It's not a race car by any means but is moves along good enough, gets great mileage and I haven't had one problem with it.

[Cyclone03]

Ya that's what the guy probably thought when I smoked him that was driving one of those cars...... Now with the head and cam swap I'm pushing 500hp, better do some upgrades..... Hell that car doesn't have enough torque to twist a tulip out of a hole, none the less have a decent hole shot...... Slow 60 foots, playing catch up on the top end, just like all 4 bangers.........

Smoked him TC,give us the details of the "race" please.
I have a friend with a very hard leaving Falcon,both fronts up at the track 1.7 60fts. Just for fun one Sunday him and one of our co workers who has a (except for tires)BONE STOCK WRX STI went out on a "test track" launched,heated tires,etc and that Subi pulled 2 cars on him everytime,forget it on cold tires, stop light to stop light those cars just flat leave, in a stop light grand prix I have never been able to beat one off the line.

Now catch that thing with the boost down and in the wroung gear......

Ive "raced" 2. Both of them cleaned my clock off the line and both of them ended up 2 cars behind me by the end of 3rd gear. They run low 13s stock IIRC,they get in the 12s for very little $. Out of the whole I would say nothing for sale now (new) will take one,but the Mitsi evo is close. If you,or I, or anybody else hole shoots a WRX STi he didn't know you were racing.


My daughter and I went to a local autocross,sat even with the first slalom cone ,the ONLY cars running that HAD to brake for the first cone were the WRX's. An S2000 Honda was about .7sec overall ahead of all 3 WRXs and was fastest around that day but he just rolled off the throttle to set the front wheels. You could see the speed those thing gained,didn't have to time it.

BTW I like that Blue so much I painted my Mustang that color.

[Caveman Tony]

But my taste in cars makes me the red headed step child of the BS board.

No... Eagle would be the red-headed stepchild. The dude loves AMC EAGLES for pete's sake.



And, btw, i miss my blue '04 WRX. I only sold it because I was drifting it at Bonneville near the bend in the road, and accidentally 4-wheeled it in the huge salt puddle near the access point. It had salt in every damn nook & cranny possible, and I wasn't about to deal with that crap after moving back to New England.

That car was FUN.

[Bob Holmes]

I'd drive a steam engine freight train to work before I would walk given the choice, so my vote probably doesn't count. lol.

I drive a Dodge Caravan, a steam freight engine would be a step up.

[DirtyWhiteBoy]

Thanks for the free therapy, I feel a little better now.......Especially the hint about telling people that my "MAN CAR" is broken LOL.

.... BS APPROVED!

That is why this is the best car guy forum on the web. Here a cool car=cool car period.

Monica is driving mine most of the time now - I dig it when girls like manual transmissions. Good catch!

I thought more would catch on to that fact.......they must be out of blue pills <evil grin>

I have one but it's not the new ST. I've had it for 1 1/2 years now and I love it. It's not a race car by any means but is moves along good enough, gets great mileage and I haven't had one problem with it.

I wanted her to drive a Focus. Her father forced a couple of POS "F bombs" (ltd and granada) on her in high school and she still won't even consider one.... She spent every dime she earned trying to keep them running. Even when I was pushing the mileage I got a FIRM "NOT A CHANCE". LOL Not that she is stubborn or anything.

[TC]

Hey DWB, congrats on the car!!!, I just like rattling the cage.....

[DirtyWhiteBoy]

Hey DWB, congrats on the car!!!, I just like rattling the cage.....

No worries TC. I'm not in a cage, not today anyhow

Thanks, it really is my wife's ride tho. I just hope I can sneak out in it once in a while.

[Cyclone03]

Oh I forgot, WRX Sti is 100% Bang Shift approved!