ru'

I'd have to disagree about 0-60 being meaningless (but then I am a WRX owner ); day to day most of the fun is had on low-ish speed acceleration (traffic these days prevents high speeds).

I'd say that 0-40 (or even 0-30) is pretty important, if we want to find out which car would be deemed quicker (traffic light GP).

Anyway, although I'm actively participating in all this, who really cares? I have a car faster than at least 90% of the other cars around me on any given day, but it's the smile I get driving it that counts.

Geek Boy

If you like traffic light GP's then you have the right car.

scoobydooooo

i don't care about your logic i would still prefer the wrx to an rs focus !!

Geek Boy

Good for you!

Although hardly my logic....

Vipa

Geek Boy.... what do you drive?

Vipa

With you on every word there RU'

But 90% is a little on the low side.... In reality you would probably find that at any given time on any given day your WRX is probably faster than 99% of the cars around you.... think about it.... on a drive... for every 100 cars you come close to (which ain't many, especially on a motorway) do you honestly see more than 1 Porsche, Ferrari, Lambo, 'uber' Audi, M3, STi, Evo etc.. etc.. I would be surprised if the HONEST answer is yes (unless of course you live in or very near to London, Manchester Etc.. where pockets of 'fast' cars live) Because remember.... it's only the likes of the above type of vehicle that are actually quicker than an out of the box WRX!

Paul

chrisp

Still cant get past the fact that most of these fwd hot hatches are on the power limit as standard, give them any more and it tends to really upsets the chassis, unless you start fitting launch control or traction control etc etc. WRX standard is just a starting point.

Mine is running 330+bhp and no hint of wheelspin or torquesteer.

Geek Boy

1.8 Vauxhall Astra

gb

Vipa

Very nice... had a 1.4 astra as a company car when I was a youngster it was when the car tax limits changed at 1400cc so manufacturers like Vauxhall came out with fast versions of thier cars... mine had high lift hot cam and everything.... fast as **** back then... had 135 out of her on the M1 once (down hill) almost shat myself!!

Paul

Geek Boy

.............I also have another toy

but I dont want this thread to get on to me.............its not about that.

In fact I am not sure what it is about any more

Vipa

Just to jog your memory

Apparently the WRX isn't a quick car

julian N/W wrx my93

is this still going??????????????????????????????

Geek Boy

oh yeah......thats it

The thread title is - why do you hate the WRX...well I don't, its a good car, and I enjoyed my year with it. However when trackdays became more frequent I realised that the fantastic 0-60 time meant jack ****.

3rd and 4th gear acceleration becomes important for track work - and by that time I realised the impreza just does not cut it for me anymore.

julian N/W wrx my93

all started by someone who moaned over on the other side!!!!!!!!!


i still recon he won't take his belingo thing round to someones house!

Vipa

Fair enough GB but please remember that for the overwhelming majority of WRX owners a track day is never gonna happen... well not in a brand new £20k car that is needed for everything else in life anyway... so please people (and this isn't aimed at you GB as you aren't guilty of this) don't get upset when people like me get angry because people like you come on to a scooby enthusiasts site and start dissin the cars that they love.

As a wise man said (earlier in the thread) It's a Scooby Enthusiast site... so if you ain't enthusiastic... take it somewhere else instead of dragging this site down!

Thank you and goodnight!

Paul

Bubba po

Did you see that, everyone? He called me wise, he did.






Is that another word for "Old"?



Nah... can't be.



.....pslewis.

6 pot

I love my STI that much, I want to have its babies

Ajax

My cars faster than yours! LOL

Ajax

Ajax

in fact both my cars are faster than yours ROFL

Ajax

Bubba po

I use Vim, and it removes far more stains than you...

Ajax

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Ajax

Ah Ajax

Ajax is a Greek hero, even had a mention in the recent film Troy, and no Achilles heal to mention.

Some people think he is a God , but sadly only a hero to most of you mortals

But even us heroes drive WRX’s, we cant all be Rally GODS!

Ajax, Paul

Aztec Performance Ltd

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Geek:

I really dont understand where you are coming from. You simply CANNOT subtract the 0-60mph time from 0-100mph to give you 60-100mph. How can you not understand this

Why must you keep blabbing your made up figures (the fact the someone else online has used the same dumb-*** formulae does not make it correct).

Have you been dropped like a bad habit at the lights by scoobs one too many times whilst trying to impress (without an impreza ) your girlfriend. Do you bore her with your made up formulae whilst waiting for 60mph before you can really start doing your stuff? Do you say to her "well by my (incorrect) calculations I would have beaten that car from the speed of 60mph to 100mph" then you go on to try and bait people for rolling starts (which simply doesnt happen).

You are one confused, blinkered chap.

Bob

Geek Boy

OK BOB'S

But you have not given a reason why its not any good?

If a car is 2 sec slower to 60 that a WRX but is only .5 sec slower to 100 than a WRX....somewhere along the line it must be gaining on the Impreza......can't you at least try and understand that?

monty baber

Actually Julian I moaned on both sides, both sides I use regularly.

The thread has exploded into a hundred arguments but very good reading all of it.

well except your posts julian.....

bluepolarbear

You can't really measure real world road performance from a set of figures. Having said that if you want to the only metric that I have seen that comes close is 0 - 100 - 0.

If you can do it less then 20secs you have what the majority of people would say is a fast car. If you can't you haven't.

Do the sums and find a <20sec which looks out of place. BTW some scoobies don't make the grade it's tougher then you think.

Big-G

that I cannot bear to be without it. When the wife borrows it and leaves me her Celica (usually because she's used all of the petrol up and can't be *rsed going to fill it up).
If I need to use her car, then when I have driven it for no more than 0.02 of a second I realise just how good the Impreza is.
If you are bored with your WRX then drive another 'normal' car for a day and then you might just remember why you bought a Scooby in the first place.
I know that mine is an old classic (MY96 WRX JDM Wagon) but it is a superb piece of machinery that fulfills all that I need in a car.
I have just returned from a trip to Scotland and did 905 miles in 3 days, I can safely say that my car is the safest car that I have owned/driven by far in all weather conditions.
It has the power to overtake slower traffic safely, it has excellent handling/grip and superb driveability.
I don't care for quoted 0-60, 0-100, or others, all I know that since I bought it in August, I have not been beaten by anything that has tried against me (including other Scoobies), I know I have not yet met with potential Scooby slayers but I don't see the need for me to buy bolt-on bits for extra power when I am satisfied with what I've got. If others want to do that, then that is each owners choice.
Long live the WRX

P.S. mine is an automatic...don't knock 'em till you've tried 'em.

Big-G

Gutmann pug

Havent looked at this thread for a while and you lot are still banging on ........... ...........fair play

You would be much better off spending your time downloading videos from my website

Gary

Bubba po

I just don't see how a car with two to three times the horsepower of an ordinary family car can be deemed to be slow!

scoobydooooo

this means nowt to me , having never been on a track , unless it was to come last in the 400 mtrs at school .i still think on the roads where i live the wrx would give a hard time to a lot of so called faster cars