Just curious , how many of you:
(1) Keep a mostly stock exterior, run your car into the ground and beat your Evo up at the track or
(2) Stay away from the track, install nice/rare parts, wheels, etc and build your engine to produce a bunch of power that you'll never use or
(3) Fall somewhere in between

 

(2), but I use all my power all the time. I hoon on the freeway, I hook to the grocery store, I hook everywhere I go.

 

def number 1

if i were going to stay away from the track, I'd have bought BMW

 

#1.

If I wanted to stay away from the track I would have bought a subaru

 

Haha.

Definitely No. 1.

 

+1

I wouldn't say run it into the ground but it definitely gets used.

 

+1 - occasional rally fun on dirt/gravel, beat's the paint up a bit, have done three track days and then drive 700 miles back and forth from Ohio to NYC regularly.

only way to do it.

 

(1) Its not my dd tho, so when I bring her out, its game time

 

(1) because....EVO

 

1, but I try not to run it onto the ground

 

26K miles: 4 sets of tires, 3 sets of pads. Raced the car a few times. The rest is all-street. I utilize the car's performance envelope every time I'm behind the wheel. Honestly, I don't get this "designated enthusiastic driving" thing. You're either a car guy or you're not. It's that simple.

 

(4) Install nice/rare parts, wheels etc, and build the engine to produce a bunch of power, and then beat it up on the track anyway.

 

I fall into the #2 category. The amount of free time I have does not allow for much track action, nor am I going to beat up my DD. Perhaps if I one day pick up another DD I may track it. I don't know that I'll ever drag race the car, I couldn't give two $hits what it does in a drag race. I just want t o know it's quick and reliable, good enough for me.

I love the fact that the IX can go from granny-style putting around town to blasting through freeway exits with near reckless abandon and not bat an eye. Have a truck bearing down on you that can't get over and you need to merge? 25 psi from an HTA71 says "no problem." I appreciate all that the EVO can do, it's just not in the cards for me to put it on a track. I have to learn to drive it at the limit in that environment first anyway.

 

+1 for #1. These cars love to be driven. I prefer to drive mine hard.

Now thats not to say I dont like nice parts on my car.. but I am much more concerned with performance than the way it looks. Hell my car is plasti dipped right now.

 

I may have misread the question - my car in no way resembles a "show car" though I did buy it with a CF hood (PO hit a deer, whoops). When I think "nice parts" I think only in terms of high quality "power" mods. Derp.