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Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: GmanJoe on April 18, 2003, 09:43:13 AM

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/reviews/healey/2003-04-17-evo_x.htm

Well, maybe not. :p

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: videoholic on April 18, 2003, 10:04:56 AM

I like this...  heh...

Stiff ride. You don\'t get superb handling with a mushy suspension or tires with tall, wiggly sidewalls. If you live where the roads are smooth, Evo won\'t bother you much. If you live in the real world, it\'ll knock your fillings loose.
*   Cranky low-speed behavior. If you live in and near cities, you\'ll loathe the bucking and jerking at stop-and-go speeds.
*   Seats. If you\'re young, or fit and flexible, probably no problem. If you\'re typical, you\'ll eventually detest the severe Recaros. And you\'ll curse having to reach halfway to the back seat to find the backrest adjustment knob. Mitsu says buyers agree it\'s a pain, but say they don\'t plan to let others drive so shouldn\'t have to readjust the seat much.
*   Noise. Whine is constant. It\'s the engine and transmission at low speed, the turbocharger when going faster and the tires when cruising. At first the race-car rawness will make you feel giddy. That\'ll devolve into annoyance.
*   Convenience. You\'ll miss having a fold-down rear seat to expand the trunk\'s cargo area. In Evolution, the panel is solid to keep the car stiffer for tauter steering and cornering.


You will, however, love the rear-window wiper.

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: GmanJoe on April 18, 2003, 10:12:05 AM

It\'s an enthusiast\'s car. Not a grocery getter or look-at-my-Beemer :p

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: videoholic on April 18, 2003, 10:29:32 AM

DOesn\'t look like a whole lot to get enthusiastic about.  IMO of course.

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: GmanJoe on April 18, 2003, 10:38:13 AM

That\'s because you\'re not a car enthusiast, based on your limited knowledge about 4 cylinder cars, turbos and exhaust from your past postings. Although I haven\'t raced competitively in the past 2 years, I still know the fundimentals of making any car a good race car. Luxurious suspensions are not one of them.

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: Coredweller on April 18, 2003, 10:52:14 AM

That\'s a stupid review by an old guy who\'s probably used to rating "ride smoothness" as one of the most important considerations in a car.  

I like this part:  "And you\'ll enjoy a smug smile now and then when some fool in a Corvette or BMW mistakes the Evo for a backyard custom job and tries to teach a lesson about "real" go-fast machinery. Hoo-hah."

Well.. maybe you could find a base C4 Corvette or 3-series that you could beat, but a Z06 or M3 would still own the Evo8.  :)

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: Halberto on April 18, 2003, 03:05:18 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Coredweller


Well.. maybe you could find a base C4 Corvette or 3-series that you could beat, but a Z06 or M3 would still own the Evo8.  :)

Depends on the distance they go. If it were a1/4 mile the evo would destroy the two.

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: FatalXception on April 19, 2003, 11:00:51 PM

It\'s a different style of driver that apprectiates cars like this, or the S2000.  I\'ve drivven an S2000 only four times, but each time Iwalked away amazed that theelffing that that "was not a comfort car", .buit a car built for the \'racer\' in me.  Thta\'s what these aim for.  You want sily smooth tursn and shocks, with nice quite ride, and a clean easy shift, get agoddamn 35k luxury car.  You want a car where the money=speed... look at those models.

EDIT:

*I shoudlan\'t ha seaid \'the racer\' (sorry racer, I never participated tin the bashing before but....), I shoulds said \'the automotive racer\'.

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: Coredweller on April 19, 2003, 11:54:25 PM

I think someone is intoxicated....

:D

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: FatalXception on April 20, 2003, 12:01:14 AM

Pfft... I\'m barely over the legal limig!

Lesse... 1... 2... ... ... ... like 8.. um... 9? 10? 13?  beers.. at 5% for this particular brankds... that\'s  like... um... 360 * 9 *.5 = like... um.. .130... um?  ml of actual acholhol.?  In like 5L of blood is like... um... ?  2.3%  ... um. .. shit.. I guess... tha\'t 2.1% over the legal limit.  Nahh, tha\'t impossible, I\'bd be dead... you should jecheck my figures.

*edit*

no wait, that\' shoudl be *.05, so like 180 ml alchologh, so like 180 in 5 L is what, like .04?  What the shit?  No .. ok, that\'s mibght be right?  No.. Someone else to the nubemr for me, ok?

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: The Stapler on April 20, 2003, 03:00:50 PM

Quote

Originally posted by GmanJoe
It\'s an enthusiast\'s car.

Ha! Try the Lotus Elise, now THERE\'S an Enthusiast\'s car! :)

(no radio, no a/c, no power windows/locks, etc)

Title: The SRT4 is STILL faster!
Post by: FatalXception on April 20, 2003, 03:36:09 PM

You know your getting a \'racecar\' when creature comforts are removed for weight gains.

I love the \'unluxurious\' carbon fibre interior for the new BMWs.