I do think the EVOs and STis we get our hands on are very different to yours.
This and the massive difference in the roads between there and here make a difference.
Over here the 300+bhp 'family car with 4x4' is pretty common.
Check out the numbers of Stis, EVOs, RS4s and RS6s to get a good idea and thats before you count the M5s and other S500s.
Too right though that the average driver will not need most of the kit and performance most of the time, bit like our 911s then, but to many they are used pretty frequently.
Agree that without the power the looks are too boy racer. Here with the power its pretty much untouchable. A recent Turbo will challenge but not the standard 911, let alone anything with 911 on its chassis plate.
Only yestersday I was gald to have the 4x4 gear underneath me as I drove home. A pretty dreadful day, very serious rain, nice road, no traffic. I would have struggled intensely with a 230hp RWD car, as witnessed by the 350Z stuck in the ditch on the way. Car muddy and waterlogged but otherwise OK. No I don't have an EVO or an STi, just an Audi S2 wagon.
I'm pretyy certain the P-car would have ended up next ot it........
We're up to tthe Evo VIII in the UK and regularly it is regularly compared to 911s (996) and its often a very close run thing on performance and driving experience.
Pretty much horses for courses tho'
