Yep, that has been my path over the past 7 years or so. Having most recently gone from a 2005 STi to an 2008 335i and now driving an evo9mr...

I truly appreciate what the evo offers against both those vehicles. Stock for stock...

335i vs evo9mr: well yes you can't beat the massive torque and raw power of the 335. But it felt like I was an old man driving in a cocoon. Muted steering, lurchy paddle shifting (the manual felt like shifting in jello so I thought I'd give the tiptronic a try.... not so much). 335i felt much bigger and nowhere near the handling of course.

sti vs ev09mr, well, low end power is all I give the sti. There is no way in my opinion to get the sti handling to the evo level. I tried... with coilovers, etc. Nothing came close. The evo feels so much tighter, steering super quick. I do give the STi the tranmission advantage. Shifting feels much better and more solid. I actually worry about the evo 6 spd tranny.

So my take. Yes I will miss the comfort and raw power of the 335i. The STi I do not miss at all. The EVO is plain and simple the most exhilarating drive. Super tight steering, smooth acceleration, closest I could get to driving a kart to work. This is pure driving. Twitchy steering keeps you alert, perfectly balanced handling (with Zeals and with current bilstein/Swift springs). Many of my friends think I have gone nuts in ditching my 335i to drive this... but as I get behind the wheel, mash the gas pedal, and slide through a turn with perfect balance... skeet skeet skeet...

 

Congrats on the new ride . and interesting review of the 335i, evo ftw!

 

Nice write up.

 

Nice congrats on the 9 mr! Don't worry too much about the tranny, as long as you don't go crazy big power and take care of it, then it will be fine.

 

grats. How old are you though?

Im 25 and personally, i don't feel old at all in a 335i, even the 4door.

 

Now mod the thing and leave the others in the dust!

 

I'm actually thinking about jumping ship to an e92. Then I realized with the .92 lag issues, bad fuel pumps and countless 328 and 335 with women driving them, nothing beats the evo!

 

Nice, congrats on your new evo!

 

Congrats and I hear you. I went from an Evo to German luxury back to an Evo and I haven't looked back since.

 

STi doesn't shift better than MR, the shifting is so notchy compare to MR 6 speed.

STi has lowend b/c the turbo is smaller, not so much to do with the 2.5 L, I drove my friend's upgrade turbo Sti and I thought it suppose spool up fast with 2.5L, but it didn't.

335, I don't like them b/c they are faster than evo and they like to mess with evo, they think they are the fastest thing.
b/c BMW knows they can't use NA to compete with turbo so they went to the turbo route.

for those went to 335 from evo, it's disgrace to evo community.

 

i agree with you on this point. my brother has an sti and i hate to drive it, it feels like crap compared to the evo. he even agrees that he likes the evo more than his sti.

 

congrats

 

you go through the cars congrats on the evo

 

All my friends called my crazy for ditching my stage 3 audi s4 for a stock evo. My s4 felt way faster and still is(for now ) but the evo would destroy the s4 on a road course!

 

I completely agreed. I know a lot of people live and die by the philosophy that they will not consider a "sedan" a sports car. Obviously those people have never driven an Evo. When you drive it, you'll understand why people who owns 911 C4S, 335i, and other more expensive cars enjoy the Evo much more. There is the story of a guy who sold his 911 C4S and a race prepped M3 after driving an Evo 9. And he was proud of it too