A New Car
team_e-brake
04-22-2003, 08:06 AM
lately i've been lookin for a new car and i've had a few cars i was lookin at:
94 Mitsubishi 3000Gt VR-4 W/Mods
03 Wrx
(Dont Know What Year)Talon Tsi AWD
02 Honda Accord Coupe v6
Eclipse GT-S
and right now i'm sorta focused on the WRX but i dunno. i'm love all wheel drive and turbo so is the wrx a good choice and what are choices i want a car with good accel and top end what are the best choices for that. and how do these cars sound with a decent BOV
94 Mitsubishi 3000Gt VR-4 W/Mods
03 Wrx
(Dont Know What Year)Talon Tsi AWD
02 Honda Accord Coupe v6
Eclipse GT-S
and right now i'm sorta focused on the WRX but i dunno. i'm love all wheel drive and turbo so is the wrx a good choice and what are choices i want a car with good accel and top end what are the best choices for that. and how do these cars sound with a decent BOV
2fast4uwrx
04-22-2003, 06:57 PM
1Mazda323Fan
04-23-2003, 09:37 AM
I'd go with the WRX myself. Actually, an STi. You've got an Evo 8 killer stock, and with a few mods could completely annihilate that 3000 GT. those things are great off the line and top end, but handly like ass, since they weigh nearly 2 tons. The Talon/Eclipse, nice choice, but you'd have to drop some serious coin down to rival the performance of the STi, and you'd end up spending more than the Subie would run. And the Honda...ugly, not nearly as good handling, ugly, slower, ugly...you get the idea. Go for an STi.
kfoote
04-23-2003, 10:33 AM
After much research, I ended up with my 99 Impreza 2.5 RS because it was the best handling daily driver in a variety of road conditions. On the track, it doesn't handle as well as my Miata (I ran the Subi at one Driver's Ed last year), but it's a lot more comfortable with all season radials than my previous daily driver (1987 Porsche 944) was with Michelim Pilot Arctic Alpin's in the snow, and living in New England, that's a major consideration. After having studied how the various AWD systems work, at the time I bought it, it was the most efficient system on the market, and the only ones that have come out since then that are better are in the WRX (refinement of what I've got), Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII (like the WRX, same basic theory but more refined), and the STi (another large leap, the Driver Controlled Center Differential looks very promising as a huge step forwards). My RS is down on power, but for a daily driver, it's not a big deal, as I've got my race car to excercise my right foot (though it's down on power on the Subaru, I use more of the power available in the Miata than in the Subi.) I am now trying to figure out whether or not I can afford an STi, but if not I'll probably end up getting an '04 WRX, as the milage on my RS is getting kinda high.
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