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not to spark an argument enough to close a thread...

we all know subaru is on its own. the closest thing to its engineering was a four wheel drive vanagon called a synchro, made in germany..and it had 3 main bearings...and was a van with a backwards relation. porsche had quite an AWD rally hunter in 1983 called a 958 (or 953?)..and it is still most likely the most obscure "greatest of greatest boxer AWD" ever...why? no competition.

Untouchables.

In 1985 dodge/mistubishi stepped up with a suv looking buggy called a dodge colt vista. It was horrible, transverse, and very badly (dangerous) implemented AWD. It remained obscure..even today, I bet I just surprised a few of you of its existence.

anyway, from that point on, it returned to evolve into the evolution. It was a dodge colt AWD, and it had many many names. mitsubishi powered. the lancer evo is no surpise today. the most common drivetrain for sale in mass production (transverse FWD) was made to fit as a competitor against common sense to keep the realm alive. All physics had to be overcome. thier is a winner, and we know what it is and always will be, but for subaru to be allowed its inkling of true integrity it has to have a competitor, else remain in the exotic realms of standalone porsches...and none of us need that exactly.

As a true suby enthusiast with math always simply riddling through my brain..the evo is a part of subys modern equation, if you know what I mean. If subaru in 1987 had a competitor...what would its 10th quiet place in the worlds great rally (safari) worked into? it got 10th place with <150 horses and little wheels. Oh. My. God. it was quite obscure with some very powerful facts silented. an evo back then? the competion would have been there louder..of course stomped on as history shows..but louder. Therefore, I not say much about the faulty evo. I truly believe the world tried to make the original scoobs obscure, because nothing like it existed.

To veer off a bit, I literally seek a tame porsche AWD. I could personally get out of ricer origins entirely....and this subject would no longer be part of the subaru I know. It would make it the ridiculous past. but for now...

 
I remember that colt vista.... that was henious. Didn't they put the driver outside the frame of the car so it was really sweet when the got hit....

I remember a year or two of the Toyoyta minivans doing that... the really early sienna's...I think it was called the Previan and was made for a couple years with the fron passengers mounted very unsafely in front and outside the framing.....

my parents had this old dodge colt, 1974 I think... 2 dr.. Because I grew up on a long driveway that was the car I learned how to drive a 5 speed in.... after I stol the keys and drove it around while the parents were at werk..

 
not to spark an argument enough to close a thread...

To veer off a bit, I literally seek a tame porsche AWD. I could personally get out of ricer origins entirely....and this subject would no longer be part of the subaru I know. It would make it the ridiculous past. but for now...
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Hrmmm, " tame Porsche AWD" now there's an oxymoron to remember.

Except it's not an oxymoron, it's actually true. Check out early 90s 911 C4...thru the miracle of depreciation, these amazing automobiles have come into the reach of normal people. Incredibly capable, reasonably reliable because the new-model teething probs (disintegrating clutch disc, clunky center diff, and weird dual-drive distributor) have been fixed long ago.

If you can get past the yuppie-poser image, a 964 series AWD 911 can be the performance bargain of a lifetime. For the $$$ of your average used WRX you get a real live AWD Porsche and all that delivers--a 300-hp flat-six-wailin' all-weather express that makes teh wimmens drool.

Bodywork is fully galvanized so no guilt about winter drivin, either.
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Drive a good C4 up to the Loaf in a snowstorm, and when you get there the skiing will be boring in comparison.

If by saying this I get banninated for heresy, I will go down proud.
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PS--Back on topic re Mitsu comments -- "Evos suck, except when you own one and have big dirty fun just driving downtown for a quart o milk" If Evo waggies were available, I'd a had one in the driveway years ago.

 
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I won't get fired up in this thread, but here's an evo Wagon for ya Dave!

Also, AMS made the Evolander. That thing was pretty sick!

 
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I won't get fired up in this thread, but here's an evo Wagon for ya Dave!

Also, AMS made the Evolander. That thing was pretty sick!
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isn't this pic suppost to be in the ugly car thread?lmao what is that looks like a combo of a ford focus wagon meets volvo wagon with an evo front lip. people complained abotu the new sti wagon look. dear god if they ever mass produce that pos watch people riot in the streets like they did with rodney king lol

 
maybe its because its early and i haven't woken up but this post is way to deep for me
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No, they are usually pretty deep, you need to read it more than once:confused:

 
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