Best Motoring, Evo vs STI preview

http://www.bestmotoring.jp/BM/200802/



Starting Grid

1. 06 STI
2. EVO X 5MT
3. EVO X SST
3. EVO IX
5. 08 STI

Results

1. 08 STI
2. 06 STI
3. EVO IX
4. EVO X 5MT
5. EVO X SST

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this just contradicts everything seen on motortrends review

 

damn!!
are those the real results??
wheres the video??
that page is hard to navigate around, all i saw was a few pix

 

it should be the first thing you see when u load the page, ontop of the NISSAN GTR pictures

theres a dark grey circular button u need to press

 

thats it i need a honda fit with 4g63 in it i am done with evoX for sure at MSRP 34K

 

i did see that, but its more like a trailer. it shows some footage, but wanna see the whole race
guess ill have to wait a bit more than. kinda sad, i thought the ix would do better.
and lmao at the x.
yet someone will chime in on "but it's quieter, smoother, more safe, its evolved" and all that BS

 

Where did you get the result from ?? Did you watch the whole DVD ??

 

How did the 06 STI start first on the grid? in the last BM vid it was fourth and the IX is still almost dead last.

 

Strange. I remember seeing the BM Video where the IX beat 06 STI by a huge gap.

 

Yeah kind of weird the 06 STI beat the IX. Perhaps it was because the 06 STI started in front and had the edge from the begining. ???

More laps and I'm sure the Evo IX would've passed it.

 

...so where did you find the results?

 

I didn't notice any results either...maybe we're all retards and can't see what he's seeing?

 

he either has the full dvd or he just watched the preview clip and based it off that.

 

I saw on the iwsti forum it had the same results.

 

that's very possible. the STi and EVO IX are so close in performance that it really comes down to driver and track position. with equal drivers the EVO IX should be faster...it's a faster car. but it wouldn't be THAT much faster. whoever starts in front is likely to stay there if there are no major ****ups by either drivers. catching a car is one thing, passing it is another. i've seen plenty of races where the faster car (fastest lap times) still doesn't win the race because they simply have no good passing opportunities.

 

I've got the entire original video from BM Japan. Typical BM battle.
Interesting - both Evo Xs started off very fast but then seemed to slow down as the race went longer. Did they get hot? No definitive answer to this.. without a Japanese speaker to interpret.
See my site for info on the video.