The clutch is very soft. I am at almost 4500 miles , and it is the softest cluch I have experienced In any manual transmission performance car....and I have had many. I am thinking about the CTR but the Honda dealers in my state CT are historically bastards.
I feel like the CTR is so big, it's almost a full size sedan with a liftgate at this point. I like the small size of the GRC. Thats why i was thinking BRZ/86 as a run around replacement. I have no kids, and no need for a car that is big. I have a 2011 Ranger that was my Nonno's I can use...
Are both cars DD for you? How is the sound system/interior quality in comparison. Is the engine as good/fun to rev through the power range/get into full boost. I have heard that the sound becomes pretty annoying they pump into the interior, I don't spend alot of time on this forum but I am...
Yup it really was. I still have my GRC. Some things are starting to annoy me a little bit. The clutch is for sure one of the softest I have ever had on a performance car. The things paint is very poor - almost Subaru quality levels. I don't tailgate and have rock chips forming already. The sound...
too many contradictions. 20 years on the evom forum so you have first hand experience seeing 75% of X owners going back to the IX or wishing they could. X values are roughly half of clean IX one btw, so regardless if they have SAYC or not they ARE the best evo they ever sold here. Myself and...
I called them a few years ago and they said they’re all gone. Who knows if it’s true or not. If I knew someone local I could send them on a spy mission in person to figure it out. I’m sure they get calls from strokers asking about them all the time. I’m willing to budget over 6 figures for both cars
if someone had a 05 sti and 06 evo stashed away stock in a collection with close to delivery mileage on it at this point I’d go buy those and just keep DD my Corolla GR because I’m so sick of the electronic shit. I had my first annoyance , in the snow, in my GRC when realizing that when you turn...
So if you value handling so much why buy a golf R? And the GRC has close to zero understeer and drives pretty damn similar to the old evos in my opinion and far better than the X did. I have spent hours driving evo 10s….and enough time in the IX to know I’d rather have the old car but to each...
MOTORTREND figure 8 testing:
FL5: 24.50
IX MR:25.00
06 STI: 25.50
How much of that is tires? Would Sport cup 2 tires make a difference? would it give the EVO or STI the edge over the FL5
Heres some old magazine #s i got offline for a 2006 STI - no 2005 #s could be found
5 - 60 mph
6.4 s
0 - 30 mph
1.2 s
0 - 40 mph
2.2 s
0 - 50 mph
3.1 s
0 - 60 mph
4.5 s
0 - 70 mph
5.7 s
0 - 80 mph
7.6 s
0 - 90 mph
9.5 s
0 - 100 mph
12.1 s
0 - 130 mph
24.1 s
1/4 mile
13.0...
Maybe I can find the data its somewhere on my comp from when I scanned it. My 05 was bone stock, nothing but sport cup tires on it. It was a 60k mile car that was rarely really well taken care of. Stock intake, exhaust, ECU, all original. What year was your STI? My stock 07 with that emissions...
I never felt like the GD steering was that slow. I drove my 16 and 05 back to back and found that the GD steering, while a hair slower, felt more connected and communicative to the road. It had more feel than the 16 did, and never once was the steering speed an issue or something I ever thought...
That’s what I was looking to hear. I always wanted to buy one but they were always snotted local to me. Now if I could just find a Time Machine!
Does your IX MR have the zero lift kit?
is your CTR a fk8 or fl? Also if you could only have one which are you keeping and WHY? Thanks
I had a 2016 STI I got new in 2015 , I kept it for a DD for 4.5 years because the deal I got was incredible . From my experience all I could think about was how much more I like the GD car in stock configuration. I really didn’t have much to nitpick about the GD while the VA I had a list of...
If someone offered you a bone stock evo 9 SE with original paint, low miles, for your CTR (assuming the CTR was not your only car and you had a daily ) would you take it over the Honda?
I remember PRE from IWSTI if my memory serves me correctly.
I traded down for a white one and haven’t regretted it at all. The JBL sound system in the loaded core wasn’t all that great, I never use heated steering wheel or seats, so I just didn’t care all that much. I knew for my cars purpose...