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Old 05-21-2003, 03:02 AM
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Question just a question from honda guy

alright, im a turbo honda guy but i really like and can appreciate a great car, the STi is awesome...just wondering though...on the subaru AWD cars, wagons etc....which wheels burn out when u peel out?...is it the back, frt, or all 4?...just wondering..thanks...oh yeah, cant subaru make the car look a little more stylish?...with a 2 door coupe or something?...anyone else feel like that?...
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Old 05-21-2003, 08:48 AM
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Re: just a question from honda guy

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alright, im a turbo honda guy but i really like and can appreciate a great car, the STi is awesome...just wondering though...on the subaru AWD cars, wagons etc....which wheels burn out when u peel out?...is it the back, frt, or all 4?...just wondering..thanks...oh yeah, cant subaru make the car look a little more stylish?...with a 2 door coupe or something?...anyone else feel like that?...
It's AWD, I have yet to get any wheel to spin, when I launch they all hook up and while the FWD and RWD's are spinning I am leaving.

Subaru did away with the coupe with the second gen Impreza, the coupe was developed principly as a racing platform as coupes tend to be stiffer, with the second gen Subaru eliminated the body flex the first gen was prone too and so no longer produced a coupe. If you're wondering about that, Subaru produced the coupe for WRC competition which requires a minimum of 2500 units of the model produced annually(like Nascar used to be), so the coupe was available as a road car.

So you think your Honda is stylish?
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Old 05-21-2003, 04:21 PM
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AWD Burnout

On loose road surfaces (gravel, dirt, snow), I have tried this, and, lo and behold, all 4 tires spin on my 99 2.5 RS. When I have tried this on loose gravel and snow, it leaves a really neat set of 4 burnout marks on the driving surface. Freakray is right, though, on good dry pavement, the tires just hook up. 0-30 times on my lowly dead stock 2.5 RS are better than the 5.0L Mustangs that has twice the power and 25% wider tires.
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Old 05-21-2003, 06:17 PM
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Yep, same here, only place my Impreza breaks loose in on snow/ice or gravel......

.....I need to spend more time on gravel
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Old 05-22-2003, 11:37 AM
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Styling

My 99 is a 2D coupe, and I prefer the coupe to the 4D sedan mostly because I'm fairly tall, and it's a bit easier to get into and out of the car because the doors are bigger, and since I very rarely have passengers, the rear doors would do me very little good anyways. I bought the car because it was the best handling daily driver in all weather conditions, and I am far more concerned with practicality and suspension engineering than styling. There are three cars out there now that have a better AWD system than my RS: the WRX (rear Limited slip Differential), STI (Rear LSD plus the driver adjustable F/R torque split), and the Lancer Evo VIII (rear LSD). As far as styling goes, I'll probably end up getting an 04 WRX later this year to replace the RS (94k miles), mostly because, though I am more concerned with engineering and suspension design, I really don't like the front end design on the 01-03.
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I've spun all 4 on pavement before... for about 2 feet, then the car took off like a bat out of hell. Left 4 little dark spots.

I dug 4 chunks out of some day old asphalt once too. :hehehe:

Even tried putting some oil down on the road once to see if I could get a good picture of smoke coming off all 4, the car still just took off, although this time it was spinning through all of 1st and at the beginning of 2nd.
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Yep, same here, only place my Impreza breaks loose in on snow/ice or gravel......

.....I need to spend more time on gravel
can they do dounuts?
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On dry pavement? Yeah, if you have a LOT of power. They'll sit with smoke coming off all for rotating slowly. It's not like a normal donut, it's a scoobnut :hehehe:
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