Videos Under $30,000 Performance Car Shootout

[Zafiro]

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[martinbo]

Oh thank goodness. We'd never have heard the end of it if the Fiesta had won. Again.

 

[Zafiro]

Oh thank goodness. We'd never have heard the end of it if the Fiesta had won. Again.

Did you pay them for Subaru to win?

 

[martinbo]

Not at all - it just goes to show that it took Subaru technology to beat the unbeatable. New WRX is fantastic - my advice to anyone looking to go the old-school route is forget about the STI (wait for the new FA-generation engine ones) for now and buy the cheaper, sweeter WRX.

And, in Japan, those lucky farkers... they get the FA20DIT WRX "S4"

http://www.subaru.jp/wrx/s4/

That car has 221 kW and 400 Nm. And that's not even an STI yet. So I can't wait to see what the STI is going to get.

Edit: Oh, I see that the STI is listed with 227kW and 422 Nm but I can't help but recall that this is the previous generation EJ engine without digging a bit deeper.