Had the opportunity to tool around in a friends new MR for a few days. Took a little while for me to warm up to this car but the more I drove the more I liked. Smooth and comfy no shifting good torque tons of Evo grip great seats decent stereo etc etc. This is the perfect car for a DD but for me it is not engaging enough as a weekend lapping event/cruise around special. Where my S2K is about as involving as you can get no electronic nannies a twichy chassis that forces you to pay attention coupled with a somewhat laggy turbo that makes powering out of corners interesting and not enough tire the MR is like playing gran turismo. Put it in sport mode and go take some on ramps way too fast with no drama. It is almost impossible to get the car to lose composure. It feels like the car is so good and so polished that while you might be turning the wheel you are not doing the driving. The car is driving you. Its great fun but a little bland a little blah. Maybe if it was red I would have liked it more.
The new Evo’s are really growing on me…but ugh i would really love to see it in stick.
I wonder what it takes to convince a dealer to let you test drive one?
lol.
and so true, when i went from my mr2 to the sti i had the same exact feeling… the mr2 was so much more driver involved. If i recall i described the sti as “i feel like i am driving a tank, i point in the direction and mash the gas and end up where i want”, no finesse, it didn’t feel like i was cornering hard even if i was etc.
in the end i like it that way, but i do miss the excitement of snap oversteer every once and a while 
I drove the Evo at Ray Laks before buying the ralliart and loved the brakes on the evo but its not family friendly and the only thing I wish the Evo had was a taller 5th gear or even 6th. You would be going gas station to gas station on that tiny fuel tank. Even my choice of car we barley got 300 miles out of the tank and most of that was highway.
Dress well talk a good game don’t show up in a POS.
Chino word and the auto makes it even worse.
Chuck the MR has 6 forward gears not bad on the highway at all. Fuel economy still sucks and the trunk is pitiful. I will own one someday… as a DD. :tup:
you guys are a hitting on reason 2 why I got rid of my evo. I wanted to learn a raw RWD car instead of using a lot of power and AWD as a crutch. reason 1 was that I didn’t want to stuff a $20k+ car into a wall at the glen (I’ve seen too many intermediate going on to advanced track day drivers do this as you dial out the safety margin.)
U know you want a GSR… :headbang: