...and my Ralliart will never be quite the same.

Dude... It's quite the car. Honestly, I can see where it would take some getting used to... the clutch is WAY trickier than the one on the RA (I stalled it pretty quick, and the hot sales girl laughed at me!) and of course the handling is better... when the turbo kicks in... WOW. I thought the RA had some kick, but after driving the Evo, it's very tame.

Sure, it's loud, rides pretty rough and it's certainly a bit more expensive... but I gotta admit, I want one pretty bad now!

 

Just drive an OZ for a couple days then get back to me Nothing against OZs though
Or drive a 60 horsepower Chevette if you REALLY want to love your RA again.

 

i feel ya pain...i remember first drove the evo..i went to my car and said...u fu*kin piece of sh*t rsx!!!

 

I want an evo so bad too. The clutch is that different from the ralliart??

 

 

Simple solution...trade the RA for the Evo!

 

hahaha their is no shame in stalling . I actually have stalled twice already in the evo and when I had my prelude i dont remember stalling at all except when i first learned how to drive. Did she just let you drive it? the mitsu dealer ppl wouldnt even talk to me when i went there . Maybe she likes you! but too bad you ruined it by stalling haha j/p

 

i've stalled once but that was with the ac on full, and my wife adn 3 friends in the car.

 

well when I first got my Evo I stalled twice with cops behind me. I was waiting for the green light with Cops on my ***. Evo is my first manual car, and when I saw them in the mirror with their lights on ( I had Evo for ~ a week or so then ) I couldn't get the clutch/gas combo right lol. They told me to move through the speaker, and I was thinking to myself "Im trying man". Finally on the 3rd I was successful lol.

 

i want one real bad too but i have other **** that needs to be paid for. but ive been seeing sooooo many evo's everywhere now... a lot of people are buyin them

 

Yeah, I just got the Ralli tho, so I'm still a little upside down on it.

Plus, the Ralliart fits my budget (2 cars, house payment, furniture, appliances, ect ect...) a tad better, although now I see why people are willing to spend a little more $$ to drive the bad boy.

As for the clutch, yeah, it took a few tries!! When I first got the Ralliart, the clutch "seemed" a bit touchy and hell, the Evo is a drivers car, a honest-to-god race car, and that skill with the clutch is required!

I can totally picture some of these "Dooodz, daddy just got me an Evo8 for my first car!" people stalling it over and over.

By the end of the test drive, I was taking off pretty smoothly tho. I guess what I hear is true... with the Evo, it's all about the launch!

 

I thought the clutch in the Evo was pretty easy. I stalled the sh*t out of the WRX when I drove it. Something about it just didn't feel right.

 

I just bought an EVO last weekend, the clutch is fine, easy to press down, and it just works like it should. I traded in a civic with an ACT clutch on it and this thing is so much easier to drive then with the ACT clutch, not saying I don't miss the ACT clutch, and the way I drive I'll probably be upgrading to clutch on my new EVO pretty soon. I don't see how anyone could stall it, unless maybe they are first learning to drive stick????

 

OH MAN, that sucks.

now, this is why all the clutch horror stories are happening....all the first time with a manual folks.

 

I totally agree. I'm not bashing the Evo at all, just saying I made myself look like a dumb@$$ with a hot sales girl sitting in the back seat!

Honestly, it just has a different feel to it. I'm no manual rookie... I've been driving stick for 10 years, but this also isn't my old '93 Nissan Sentra!

Really, I think I was a little hesitant at first to really "get on it" since there was some traffic and I wasn't sure what the Evo would do. Once I got to an open road, well, it all fell into place.

It's funny, when I sit in the Evo, I feel right at home since everything is in the same place as my Ralli and OZ.