06 STi

[G.Irish]

Im dissapointed in you G, you should know better than to make silly magazine racing comparisons

Most of the favorable press that the Evo has gotten has centered around the better feel of the car. Quicker rack, better seats, etc. Perceived improvements, not real performance improvements. Any real track car has buckets anyway.

Wrong. Every test I've seen has shown the Evo to be faster in lap times, a purely objective measure. Maybe the drivers couldn't extract the best performance from the STi but I can only go by what I've seen and read and not what 'might' be. I don't really go by the objective measures because I disagree with them a lot of the time.

One could say the Evo is faster around the track because its faster in a straight line but that would be wrong because the STi is the faster one in a straight line. The difference is purely in the suspension tuning, especially since they stop in similar distances

The STi has the front LSD but I think it suffers from a slightly undersized rear sway bar. I like the STi's interior better too and again, it'd be the car I'd chose. But to discount the Evo as merely a drag machine or a big numbers machine is wrong. Stock for stock it can cut and carve just as well and better than the STi.

The difference could merely be in more aggressive shocks and springs in the Evo, but there's no way to know that until we see Evo's and STi's racing in the US.