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Re: Facking Lucky Auzies
« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2005, 12:41:49 pm »
Quote from: snowman on October 20, 2005, 12:29:41 pm
I did not buy a WRX to go fast in a straight line. I would have got a Mustang GT and modded it up to 400 hp if I wanted that. I am debating spending the extra $12k for an STi over the plain WRX.

I guess this is really a philosophical question... :)

Is WRX+$12K > STI?

To some, it is...to others perhaps never.

Personally, I would be happy with a WRX with uppipe, downpipe and ECU.
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Re: Facking Lucky Auzies
« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2005, 04:47:08 pm »
IF the STi were available back in 2002 I may have struggled with the issue. I would like to be in that position in the fall of 2006 when the new Impreza platform comes…hopefully.
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« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2005, 07:36:12 pm »
I know what you mean...I would be in a quandary too if the STI was available when I got my WRX in 2001.
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« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2005, 07:49:48 pm »
have you guys ever been to Australia?  Their performace car market is devoted, and manufacturers deliver.  They get sweet rides, but often pay more with taxes.  I once worked it out that an S class would cost almost 3 times as much there than here.
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« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2005, 08:21:23 pm »
Most people from Oz that I talked to, there are many in the Canadian Mining Industry, buy 2 or 3 year old used cars off the boat form Japan. New cars are expensive in Oz.
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« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2005, 10:57:57 pm »
Nothing has changed much althougth the Auz dollar used to be stronger; but I was in Australia for a month in late 1978 and cars were terribly expensive there then. It must be a very small market for the likes of GM of Australia, and Ford of Australia.
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Re: Facking Lucky Auzies
« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2005, 04:07:36 pm »
200kW is 268HP and 343Nm is 253lb-ft. Doesn't our STi put out more than that? ???
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« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2005, 05:18:11 pm »
Yes....but it is more than 250 in the N.A. LGT.
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« Reply #29 on: October 24, 2005, 09:53:30 pm »
Really nice departure angle on that beauty!!  ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #30 on: October 24, 2005, 10:09:42 pm »
That thing couldn't even go up a hill on the road, let alone a sloped driveway.. ;)
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