Originally Posted by Steiner

fusionchicken...great post. I had forgotten the feel from the first drive. I was giggling like a drunken school girl everytime boost would come on or I'd take an onramp at twice the posted speed. You actually sound like somebody who understands the value of a dollar, an education, and 300awhp even though you're young. You'll have an Evo someday. Don't sweat it. The longer you wait the more rewarding it will be.

Originally Posted by nightwalker

I feel you fusionchicken. I waited two years to get my EVO. I've lusted after them since 97 when I started watching clips of WRC here and there, and reading about them. Then I read about the EVO8 launch in the US, but couldn't afford one till two years later. I got mine with 18k miles used. In the first month I drove over 8k miles!

I just can't stop driving! I'm addicted. I need to join a group or something. EDA (evo drivers anonymous)

Originally Posted by fusionchicken

lol. wow 2 years is a long wait....

Originally Posted by fusionchicken

so i was in norcal last night (still am) for a business trip. when i got to one of the biz partner's house i saw a silver base Evo VIII parked in the lot. i studied the car for about 5 min since it had the vortex generator and greddy shift knob and various lil mods...so after the meeting was over we walked out, and it turns out the car belongs to my biz partner's son!!! he just bought it for his son for 1 month (it's a 2005 evo VIII) and his son is learning manual driving on the car (lucky bastard..) so anyways, it has always been very very hard to drive an evo in the past, in the dealership it's impossible (around my area anyways), and even if u get to drive it it's like 5 min while keepin the rpm around 3k..not many of my friends drive one, if they do at first they wouldn't let anybody touch the car, and by the time they open up the car to let other ppl try it the car's already crashed..(stupid bastards)..so i was insanely excited as this dude just went back to the house and gave me the key turns out 2 ppl there needed a ride back to san francisco from fremont (where we were), it's almost a 100 mile trip back+forth..so the dude's like "why dont u take these 2 folks home, then u can drive back to the hotel u're stayin at then i'll drive back to my house from ur hotel), basically i couldn't believe my ears, and i was insanely excited (for those who don't know, i'm utterly obsessed with the evo) not only did i get to drive my dream car for the very first time in my life but i get to drive it for 1.5 hrs (including hotel trips) while pushing the car a lil since the dude was cool about it.

so last night was arguably the best night of my life.

the car had 2700 miles on it, just broken in so with 4 ppl including me in the car (there was this dude close to 300 lbs in there too), there's about 650 lbs total in the car... but the car still accelerates like a MOTHER. some ppl said it's hard to manage a turbo car on the streets or somethin, but for the Evo i found it to be very easily manageable. 3500 on tachometer is the sweet spot, whenever i'm there the car just jumps. it's an AWESOME feeling. so the whole time driving i was just random pushing random gears, tryin to see how crazy this car can get. everytime the turbo goes full boost at 3500 everybody in the car get planted in the seats, 'twas funny but AWESOME. so the Evo is famous for it's handling and cornering ability, so of course i wanted to give it a lil try. but with 3 other ppl in the car i couldn't do much. only time i got to try it out was at a freeway exit, where there was this close to 90 degree left turn on a slight uphill...i basically entered the corner at 35 mph in 2nd gear and i kept accelerating through the corner and came out of it at like 60 mph....it is a feelin i can not yet describe with words...i was just FREAKIN hmmm IMPRESSED. i couldn't stop smiling and at times laughing like a retard. everytime i push the gear to around 3500 rpm or more, i just kept sayin "wow". on some other curved on/off ramps i pushed the car a lil too and although at corner entry the car feels a lil "unstable" but after that u realize that the car's actually gripping like a MOTHER and still begs for MORE.... on the way back from SF there was much less weight in the car, so the car was even faster (the 300lb guy was not in the car no more, the other 120 lb girl was off too)...so i just had a FREAKIN blast with the car...makes me want the Evo even more badly than before now....as many of u know there are more cops out there now that the year's ending since they're trying to meet their quotas and stuff, so i was driving at 70 mph almost the whole time on the freeway...at this point there was no other cars around us, so i took the car from 70 to 100 in 5TH GEAR...and dude, it was plenty fast for me already at 70 the engine's runnin at 3000 rpm...so on the way to 100 mph the turbo kicks in and everything just went from great to AWESOME...btw the Evo is pretty quiet on the highway, way quieter than my integra gsr...also the ride is a lot smoother at high speed; the suspension isn't near as stiff as my integra (teg has eibach springs dropped 1.5'' all around), so ride quality was great IMO.

so in short, the acceleration is fantastic, esp when turbo kicks in (GOSH I LOVE THAT FEELING), and corning ability....wow. i LOVE THE EVO EVEN MORE NOW, DAMN IT. the only thing holding me back is that i have to pay for my college tuition (25k+/year) so i still can't comfortably afford an Evo, or else that car will be on my driveway by tomorrow when i'm back home..

sorry for the LONG post, but i'm very excited. i think from this point things in life might be going down hill for a while....until i purchase an Evo

Originally Posted by 2hot2handle

well i own an evo and im still like that.........

Originally Posted by fusionchicken

nope u did not sound like a jerk, not at all

yea i couldn't really beat the crap outta the evo because 1) there were 3 ppl in the car 2) i like the car too much to do anything crazy to it. 3) it's not my car. if that evo were mine one of the few things i would do is to launch it and get that shooting-out-like-a-rocket feeling from a dig. hehe. but of course i didnt do that to the Evo i drove. cutting a semi-corner while accelerating from 35-60 mph and pushing only ONCE the 2nd gear to 5.5k rpm (not even redline) are normal driving lol.