what are you trying to say

 

Tie it to the top of the car with a rope.

What I mean to say is that lately I have questioned whether I should have a car of this caliber and if I should just replace it with a boring car that is only meant to get me to my destination.

 

When I had my MR I swore I'd never part with it.. but I sold it to buy a project Evo GSR because I didn't want to molest the MR (and that opened up some more to my build budget!). I highly doubt I'll ever move on from the CT9A platform for too many reasons than I'd have the time to list(and I'm sure everything I'm thinking has been said a few times over anyway), but if I ever get rid of my current Evo it's going to be because of money troubles or the car gets totaled.

 

Coming new to Evo's but not new to long-time cars, I plan on keeping my 4B11T Evo X until I'm buried in it. My rides typically last me 10-20 years before I part with them. If the love of the Evo pushes me even further, that'll last me til I die. I'm mid-40's and kept my Camry til it had 330,000m on it, just got tired of it being a slug and rusted. Still was a great DD. I don't see why properly maintained the Evo, any engine, won't do comparably if treated with respect and love.

 

I plan on keeping mine as my garage queen, track star ect. Once I put so much money in mods and know I wont get half of the money i put into it after i sell it i see no point in putting it up for sale.

 

I love my car as much as the next Evo owner, but let's be serious... which exotic quarter-million dollar (and up) cars is the Evo outperforming?

 

Heck, just saw the VIII kick the butt of a Lamborghini last night on a Top Gear rerun. I don't know it's really a $250,000 car, but I get the spirit of the post and it's directionally accurate ;-)

 

If anyone has the time, it might be fun to go through the posts and see how many respondents have sold their Evos since posting. I know for a fact that at least a dozen have.

 

Well, that VIII was a 405 hp UK-only FQ-400 that costs north of $60k (when converted to U.S. dollars). I don't know if we can count that one toward the claim of the Evo being able to outperform quarter-million dollar exotics.

 

Check out the FQ400 MLR report. For all intents and purposed, the FQ400 was not as quick as a FQ340 and we certainly have that beat.

http://www.lancerregister.com/art_fq400report.php

 

I think those results mirror Top Gear's criticisms in the sense that they acknowledge that the car is fast, but you have to deal with a world of lag below 4000 rpm. Accelerating from a roll in the lower half of the rev range will obviously put the lesser FQs ahead of it, but overall, the FQ-400 is quicker... just not from a roll and probably not in day-to-day driving, like how the Evo IX FQ-360 had less hp, was slower to 60 mph, but was far more entertaining to drive.

 

I plan on staying with my car untill it dies, or i die lol!

 

I think we've all said we're going to keep a car "forever" at some point. I had always wanted a subaru wrx since i first saw them back in 01 in a magazine (which i still have) and one day it came to be that i actually owned one, about 5 years ago now. For the last 5 years, spending thousands of dollars on it, owning 3 autos, 2 6 speeds, 1 5 speed, and a dogbox later, not to mention a 30r, 35r, and now a "37r", 3 short blocks, and numerous other setups/parts later i have rarely driven it (17k miles since i bought it) it just sits in a garage. I recently bought my first evo, a 2003 apex silver evo 8 with 30k miles, and received lots of crap from the subaru owners i have made friends with over the years and have even taken it to the "subaru club" meets with criticism but i have loved every minute of owning it. I bought a 35r kit for it a week after it came home, a quarter master twin disk the week after that, and will be ordering fuel soon as well. Every one asks me what im going to do with the subaru and i have no idea, the car i once thought "id keep forever", now sits and sees no love. but... I love my evo! My gf asked me the other day whatd id buy if i won the lottery and i told her a bunch more evo's lol. some 8s,9s and maybe even an x or 2 just for the hell of it. My best friend made the comment "now wouldnt this have just made more sense to buy this 5 years ago and not wasted all that time and $ on the subaru world" and i just laughed thinking of the expense of subaru's ej's over the mighty 4g and thought back to all the times people suggested of putting a 4g63 in the wrx and so on and so forth. Anywho, after all that rambling, i think if i ever "get rid" of my evo, its simply going to be for another one or just flat out buying another one when the urge comes along and owning two... a drag car and a summer dd sounds nice i cant bring myself to putting one through a MN winter.

 

ill always have mine! i never put miles on it cuz its always broke

 

+1

my 2003 is my baby forever, ive put too much blood, sweat, and tears into this car... where the amount of money invested into it is more than what i can probably get for it


EVO 4 LIFE