This one time...

So, I'm pretty much just starting this thread so people will tell stories about their WRXs.

Yesterday, I was driving down a country back road in Texas (read: long and straight, but not quite level). It was night, so I'm doing about 100mph, catching mini-air off the bumps. Some farmer apparently didn't want to sell his chunk of land to the state for road passage, so the road makes a quick, right-hand 90-degree turn to go around this corn field. The warning sign was all of about ten yards before the turn. I throw my eyeballs out the front of my head with the brakes, heel-toe down into third gear (I was in fourth), and roar around the corner praying there's not a deer or a cow. Luckily, there wasn't. And also luckily, the Subaru kicks ass in a corner. The Rex Aquilus stuck like it was on rails. It made the turn at about 50-60mph. I, however, almost wet myself. Ending up in the middle of a cornfield would not have been fun. Tagging a deer at 50mph would have messed up my paint and sheet metal (though it would make a nice midnight snack... venison roasted on an open intercooler). So, that's my "I almost flew into a cornfield and almost wet my pants, but stuck a really cool turn" story. What's yours?

Glad you were not another totaled rex (seems to be a lot of those around) I have only had 2 mild ones. The day I got the car I had 3 rather large friends I was taking for a ride, and they told me to go down this one back road that was empty and failed to say anything about the 90 degree turn till it was too late, took the turn it wasn’t really fast maybe like 30 but the back broke loose, I just gave it some gas and it pulled itself right back into place (love AWD, need new tires). The second time I was on a dirt road, I was going a littler faster than I needed to be and when I turned the wheels nothing happened and just was sliding forward when I slowed down enough to get traction it threw me into the turn sideways, again just a little gas and counter-steer and it was fixed. This all took place at like 25 30mph so it wasn’t a huge deal just a small dirt road

The WRX will take corners significantly faster under power than you will believe possible. Luckily, the seats have good side bolsters. Yeah, I wouldn't have totaled it, I would just have ended up with a great deal of paint damage from demolishing corn. Maybe a dent or two.

One time I came over a hill rather, err, quickly, and coming from the other direction that I couldn't see was a dump truck. I didn't see him till I was already on top of the hill, I was in my lane but he was in the middle of the road. With the weight of the car up from the hill it wouldn't turn right away, but as soon as it would I cranked it really hard to the right and about the right 3/4 of the car went in the ditch, barely missing the dump truck. I'm still going about 60 mph and there's a concrete culvert coming up so I steer it back onto the road and it starts to spin out so I downshift quick and floor it and it pulls back up on the road before I hit the culvert. I fishtail a little bit before getting it fully back under control, luckily it was a back road and there was no other traffic. I'm sure that if I was driving almost any other car I wouldn't have made it out without hitting the truck or culvert one. I also learned my lesson that day about leaving myself a wide margin of error on public roads, especially blind hills and corners. Just because I'm in my lane and good doesn't mean everyone else is.