I attract the same "challenges" regularly especially on the highway. Most just want a little show, but some are idiots who turn reckless in their pursuit to satisfy their "tuner ego". I usually just run from the idiots, much to their chagrin, lol.

 

I look for value, performance, and innovation in pretty much anything I buy, from computers to TVs, to the cars I drive, and that's what has attracted me to the Evolution since it's U.S. debut. That being said, I've always owned either Hondas or Subarus for "practical" reasons, weighting the pros/cons on paper, but it wasn't until I actually drove an Evo 8 that I "got it" and understood what it was all about, still the logic and practical side of me said to stick to the Subaru WRX wagon.

6 years go by and it came time to evaluate my next vehicle purchase, again making a list of pros/cons which heavily favored the 2011 STI hatch for it's "practicality", that is until I drove both it and a Evo 10 back to back. Small trunk? Don't care. Buzzy and boomy on the highway? Don't care. What the Evo 10 provides are the intangibles in the way it feels, something that the Subaru and many other sports cars with much more power and much higher limits simply do not have.

Bottom line: You will not find a car that provides this much performance, technology, and driving enthusiasm for the value.