The WRX STi can blow through the slalom at 72 miles per hour, get from a dead stop to 60 in 4.8 seconds and dominate the quarter mile in 13.3 seconds.
Guess what? None of those things come up for me on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. Sure it's mildly amusing to constantly blow the doors off every lowered Civic and Eclipse with a two-tone paint job and three story tall rear wing but even that gets old after awhile - the drivers look so sad afterward.
However, I did find a great practical use for our Long Term STi. I took it to the supermarket. The STi is so fast; when I got home the ice-cream still had frost on it. This should be a new testing parameter.
Brian Moody, Road Test Editor @ 6,630 miles.
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Fast wagons rule! :)
Ah, yes... The "P-word" rears its ugly head once again, as we return to the "practical" aspects of what it's like to live with a super-sporty car on a day-to-day basis.
Bravo!
Party at the Moodys? May I come? j/k
Btw, the "i" in STI should be capitalized from MY2006-on, folks. :o)
Dude....
That's a lot of iced tea.
if the i not being capitalized is your take away from this post, I may have just wasted a good 25 min.
BTW Dark, have you ever had that tea - it's sooooo good.
"Btw, the "i" in STI should be capitalized from MY2006-on, folks. :o) "
I thought the capital "I" started in 2008, I am not 100% sure though.
Like the new ZR1 not having the hyphen, the R35 GTR not having the Skyline name. Few people pay attention to it.
Hehehe No worries, Brian.
The iced tea helps the STI go ludicrous speed, Josh!
Inside Line's own Chris Walton wrote this for another publication before he saw the light and joined Edmunds. :o)
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedan/112_0512_rally_cars/index.html
The above comment was for lazyhater.
Not being able to edit comments FTL. :(
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subytrojan,
you were right then, I did said I wasn't 100% sure. I know it changed, just not sure when, thought it was with the new body, but guess not. I lost track.
I brought home a new lawnmower (fully assembled) in the trunk of my STI!
Here are some of the various seating combos that I have had in my STI(including myself) so far:
1.) 5 adults
2.) 2 adults and 2 road bicycles
3.) 3 adults and 3 snowboards
4.) 2 adults and 1 beagle/cocker spaniel mix in a crate
5.) 4 adults and 4 bags of lacrosse equipment
I would like to see any other similar performance-oriented car do this!