Ralliart 400hp EVO

[Dave1]

I was originaly having a go at the people who write CAR magazine not having a dig at the Evo. If you read my first post I said that I respect the Evo because its value £ per BHP. Its just not my kind of thing. It's obviously yours and that’s fine by me.

I'll come back to my original argument the power is not the only factor for performance cars. The Mclaren F1 is the best performance road car ever made but its NOT the most powerful. I think this proves my point.

[Gabriel343]

This EVO has a guarantee?

[evoWalo]

Dave1: You're confused. The F1 is considered to be a performance road car but not the best performance road car. It fits the bill of a super/exotic car.

Gab: It has a manufacturer's warranty.

[hemi_fan]

WOW, this thing would be amazing to drive! I drove the Ralliart Lancer, it had 170hp, FWD... it actually was pretty damn good. Really good handling and brakes on it, seats were nice too. Same gearbox as the EVO, it has a real nice shift feel. My dad was gunna buy it except import taxes brought the price of the small car up WAAYY too high.

[RC45]

Originally Posted by Gabriel343 This EVO has a guarantee?

And if anything like the EVO warranties in the States - be sure to never take your car to a track day - they will void the warranty... be sure never to do any hard launches - they will void your warranty...

And above all else, don't post anything about your car driving exploits on the EVO Forums - they will void your warranty..

[espen]

Actually, the thing about evos and Imprezas is taht they are so user friendly that even with modest power, they humble most cars on a real world road. You can carry so much speed into a corner that an opponent needs a massive power advantage to catch up on the straights - and going seriously fast on a public road is just stupid. So an average joe like us would end up using 80% of the potential in a car like this, or 50% of the potential in an exotic supercar.

Now, add power to the already fast evo or preza... things get ugly real fast. At a track day in may, a friend of mine and I humiliated a F360, a couple of 911 (including 993"RS"), a bunch of tuned Cossies, BMWs and Audis around the Våler track north of Oslo, Norway. Sure, since the Impreza was just BPU (250-260hp) on RE540s at the time some of the cars would fly by down the straight, but who cares when you can pass them on the putside and pull out a good 100m on the rest og the lap?

Cant wait till spring, just put some Stoptech 330mm brakes on the preza. And a buddy just got an equal length header and VF22 turbo on his, now it pulls 1.0 bar right into the limiter. Funny, the third gear did'nt enjoy that for very long

[Porsche911r101]

Jabba had a skyline, he told me he misses it and wants another one, this was some time ago when Jabbasworld was first created. The skyline was standard.

Originally Posted by evoWALO Nissan Skylines arent being made anymore? People dont like buying second hand cars? People dont like Japanese cars? People dont want to bother with tuning cars? People arent willing to spend on tuning cars? People want a stock performance car? People dont want to void their warranties. People find 1000BHPs too much performance. People can afford to buy & are willing to live with the headaches of buying a car like the Zonda? Would people be so mesmerized with the Ford GT, Carrera GT, McMerc SLR, Enzo, Zonda, etc if they didnt post impressive 0-62mph times or be among the top 10 cars on TG's lap times? Sure they're nice to look at, they're of a limited run/availability and are devilishly expensive but if they're all show but no go then that's sad. Kindly explain to me what performance cars are all about? It cant be all about engines then we'd need to include the Ford Thunderbird. As far as I'm concerned performance cars or big engine displacement cars does not equate to exotic cars. The Evo is the faster car thus it is the better car than the Zonda in terms of performance.