Down on the Showroom Floor

"MM54" (mm54mk2) 07/30/2018 at 19:50 • Filed to: IMPOSSIBRU, DOTS

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Over the weekend I found myself at a Subaru dealer (my mother is car shopping, most likely getting a Crosstrek ) - they had this. It’s very nice, but I don’t know that it’s $10k-more-than-a-normal-STI nice.

Relatedly, I sat in another STI while waiting , which on the sticker mentioned it had a short throw shifter. They weren’t kidding, I think the knob moved about an inch between 1st and 2nd. That would take some getting used to.

M.T. Blake > MM54 07/30/2018 at 20:05

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I’m always amazed even the special editions S20-Whatever don’t have much more power than the ordinary STI. I mean can’t they give it 450hp?!

CaptDale - is secretly British > M.T. Blake 07/30/2018 at 20:13

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Not meeting emissions standards, but I do wonder what the new forged bottom end in the RA is capable of holding up till.

M.T. Blake > CaptDale - is secretly British 07/30/2018 at 20:15

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If we can have an +800 hp D odge D emon we can have a 450 hp Subaru. There is a way!

CaptDale - is secretly British > M.T. Blake 07/30/2018 at 20:23

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Yeah, but I think that goes against Subaru’s “Corporate Image”

M.T. Blake > CaptDale - is secretly British 07/30/2018 at 20:46

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You mean the green factories that recycle everything and would never harm a polar bear? Agreed. 

CaptDale - is secretly British > M.T. Blake 07/31/2018 at 11:31

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Yeah I love that they are a Zero Fill plant and yet they use yards and yards of those plastic air bubble packing in every box they ship us.