Evo - will it be a case of don’t meet your hero ?

[Danny4494]

When I was about 20 my mate had a evo 8 was only the baby gsr260 and let me have a drive in it for 5 mins and then ever since I just always wanted one, but since then I have had much faster cars and much slower cars and much better handling cars and much worse and even its rival Impreza wrx.

It’s the looks that do it for me but I feel like in my head I’m expecting it to be amazing like a remember all those years ago.

Not sure if it will be a case of don’t meet your hero’s ?

Would be a 2nd car that would live on the drive 5/7 days a week.

Anyone else been in the position

[Danny4494]

Tommo87 said:

I have had Evos, Skylines and Impreza STIs, the latter being the better daily, but as yours isn’t, the Evo will be fine as the occasional car.

I got rid of mine when they entered the chavvy stage when they were cheap enough for people to buy and tastelessly modify, but not maintain.
I think that now prices have come back up, the view of the cars has improved enough, that you won’t automatically get such comments from people.


My own mistake was buying a C63 Merc. Great noise, but the driving experience left me a bit cold.

Funny you should say that’s as I have just sold my w204 C63 really great car imo, it’s the only car I have instantly regretted selling, but we had attempted burglaries for the keys, (loved just on the boarder or Bradford they will steal anything) moved now haha.

CountVacillate said:

I had an 400hp Evo 6 and hated the thing.

Completely overrated, soulless sounding engine, and inherent design faults that make them rust like crazy. Felt heavy compared to the ‘GC8’ Impreza I previously had which I rated much better for balance and nimbleness.

I took it off the road and left it on the drive for 10 months while I traveled around SE Asia.

When I left there was minimal surface rust underneath, what you’d expect.

When I got back the rear chassis legs had completely and I mean drastically rusted out, due to a design flaw where water collects and sits in the chassis legs.

The steering was pretty good, but honestly my lightened Mk1 MX5 Turbo was more fun to drive and I built that myself for £1500.

I also disliked the MLR forum, lots of Willy waving and quite a few rude individuals there.

I have had a ver6 sti classic and I found it really nose heavy, used to lunge in to corners and understeer like a pig, anti lift kit helped abit but didn’t rate it as highly as I thought I would so interesting comment on that !, and also like you say 90% of the battle is finding one that’s not rusty

ZX10R NIN said:

Go to a specialist & take one for an extended test drive you'll then know if it's for you & if it is buy one

Didn’t think dealerships would do that on a older 2nd hand car ?

Yeah I georgeyboy12345 said:

What cars have you driven that handle better than an Evo? Genuinely interested

I have a fd2 atm as my garage queen definitely handles better than my mates evo quicker round both anglsea damp and faster round combe, had a s1 Elise can’t comment if it’s better than a evo but I would imagine it is, also had a ap2 s2000 that has to be on par too.

[Danny4494]

So I know quite a lot of these threads never materialise, I took out a evo on an good hour test drive was only the baby gsr and I don’t think it’s going to cut it I feel like I would need a MR of some description but then the problem lies I’m looking at 25-30k for a decent one, there is some barried ones at 22-25k.

It’s now got me looking at imprezas again, it’s looking like I could get a jdm widetrack blob sti for around 15k and I think that would be the better car than the GSR but maybe not as sharp as a MR