Evo vs. Sti Sales in America
Originally Posted by GPTourer
I don't see how that can prove much, other then the total number of used cars on the market. I can tell you that in calendar year '03 and '04 (I don't have '05 numbers) Mitsubishi sold more Lancers then Subaru sold Imprezas, but that still doesn't help us. The hard part is that Subaru might consider the STi to be a trim level of the WRX, like the MR is to the Evo - rather then a whole seperate car and may not release those figures. But FWIW, thatnks for the info.
Originally Posted by GVO_VIII
FINALLY FOUND AN ANSWER!
After searching financial papers for both companies, I realized that this was a difficult answer to determine. I decided to approach this answer through a different method. My method consists of researching data in the used car market. I decided to do a test with a well known used car market that would randomly sample the whole population. That site is autotrader.com. I did several tests which proved rather difficult because it was hard for autotrader's search to dissimulate between the standard wrx and the sti. Therefore, I conducted to tests to sample. The first being between the whole Lancer family and the whole Impreza family and the second being the Evos and the WRXs that cost more than $20,000 The lancer model years searched were between 2003 and 2006 and the imprezas were between 2004 and 2006 as to weed out the wrxs. The results are as follows:
'03 to '06 Lancers: 636 units
'04 to '06 Imprezas: 771 units
'03 to '06 Evos: 364 units
'04 to '06 Imprezas (>$20k): 521 units
All cars selected also included manual transmission.
Feel free to enter your zip code and select a radius to determine your true locality.
I knew for a fact that there were more STIs than all 3 variations of Evolution produced for MY2005 and MY2006 as mitsubishi is currently restructuring there company and producing less cars than the previous 2 years, while subaru has increased production to saturate the current US market.
-George
After searching financial papers for both companies, I realized that this was a difficult answer to determine. I decided to approach this answer through a different method. My method consists of researching data in the used car market. I decided to do a test with a well known used car market that would randomly sample the whole population. That site is autotrader.com. I did several tests which proved rather difficult because it was hard for autotrader's search to dissimulate between the standard wrx and the sti. Therefore, I conducted to tests to sample. The first being between the whole Lancer family and the whole Impreza family and the second being the Evos and the WRXs that cost more than $20,000 The lancer model years searched were between 2003 and 2006 and the imprezas were between 2004 and 2006 as to weed out the wrxs. The results are as follows:
'03 to '06 Lancers: 636 units
'04 to '06 Imprezas: 771 units
'03 to '06 Evos: 364 units
'04 to '06 Imprezas (>$20k): 521 units
All cars selected also included manual transmission.
Feel free to enter your zip code and select a radius to determine your true locality.
I knew for a fact that there were more STIs than all 3 variations of Evolution produced for MY2005 and MY2006 as mitsubishi is currently restructuring there company and producing less cars than the previous 2 years, while subaru has increased production to saturate the current US market.
-George
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Originally Posted by Max-Q
In St. Louis I see way more STi's than Evo's. I guess I cancelled myself out since I own both of them. 
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