Gee Wr1 wrote:Fine your not impressed with what i like but thats ok, i'll never have the budget you have for cars so i only look at whats reachable for me, i don't think i'll ever really be able to look at paying more than the 30k i did for the wr1 & buying that stretched me for a while.
What bugs me with you is your continual put down of other folks choice of car. I've never driven most of the cars you mention & i'm never likely to as they're out of my budget.
I haven't put down any of the cars you've mentioned as they are all nice cars but you continualy put down the wr1.
There are lots of scoobs, evos, skylines etc up here as they are all fantastic cars & the most fun for all the amazing roads we have to drive up here, if owning one of these cars makes you a wanker then stop & look for a moment you have owned 2 of these a scoob & evo so does that make you a double wanker??? No it doesn't it means you enjoy some spirited driving so stop calling the kettle black Mr pot!
I totally understand why you cancelled your rs4 order i would have been pissed with them to! As you say all customers should be important & not just ones with mega bucks or status there should be no que jumping.
At the end of the day you have to remember this is a wr1 owners forum
True. Which is why half of the members don't have one anymore
I must disagree with the statement that I put people's cars down. I just have an in-build hatred of people who think they drive God's own car and attribute qualities to it that it simply doesn't have. Talking out of their @rse is one of the ways you Brits put it.
I will always mention the qualities of my own cars in the light of my personal preferences and unlike some I do have no problems with acknowledging that they also have (often many) downsides.
If I am honnest, that is the one thing that irritates me in your posts: you can't accept that the scoob, while a great car, is also ridden with faults.
Anyway, where do you get it that I am putting the WR1 down ? Or that I call those who drive scoobs wankers??? You must have a complex and looking at your signature, that actually wouldn't surprise me. You're the only member who has to be negative in his signature. Does that tell us something about your personality ?
The Impreza STi was and is definitely one of the most fun cars I know and I don't see where I am putting the WR1 ever down in an objective discussion.
The only time I do so is when we're getting the boring
again on Evos from people like yourself. Banter, as Bbigman puts it, 'stuck record' would be more appropriate.
Other than that, read my post in the "WR1 Design faults" and give me any point where I am not objective.
To do you a favour, I will go off-piste a bit and put the negative points of the Evo down too in the same topic.
Anyway, sorry for venting too.
On the budget, I disagree completely with those who think expensive cars are more fun than budget cars.
Indeed I have the luck to be able to look at reasonably expensive cars (I do welcome anyone to swap life-styles though
). So I go out and drive them indeed and that has shown so far that there are more dissappointments on the road than anything else. The R8 and 911 were great, but not convincing enough to stop me asking Mitsi and Ford to have a drive in their Evo X 360 and Focus RS anyway. And if there were still any fresh Spec C's available, I would be very tempted. Totally different price. But it's the feeling I get when nailing it that counts.
Tyre kicking? Sure. My principle is simple: I like to try an interesting car at least once. Most of them turn out exactly to be that: interesting for one drive.
It's the cars I want to absolutely have a second testdrive in, I know are worth buying.
The STi was one of them. With the Evo, I just couldn't wait for the next drive. I would want to find exactly the same again now.
NB: You can think whatever, but a well driven Evo IX will leave any Impreza for dead on a twisty road.