Subaru STI beats Honda Civic in more ways than one!

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(this is what we call "Darwin cleaning the Honda gene pool")

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elevator farter #81
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On 2006-04-25, elevator farter #81 penned:

Is the implication of that article that the subaru driver was at fault?

Reply to
Monique Y. Mudama

I don't think so. In the slideshow of images, they mention it being hard to find the subaru because the two cars never touched. However, that's not to say the driver wouldn't be guilty of a number of crimes - street racing, leaving the scene, etc.

Steve

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Steve Jones

I can't see how he can be charged with leaving the scene-- the Subaru was not "involved" in the accident in a physical sense.

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SuperPoo

On 2006-04-25, SuperPoo penned:

That's what I was thinking.

Reply to
Monique Y. Mudama

I think some States have 'failure to render aid' or similar laws. Even though I don't have a cell phone, likely one of those 2 folks in the STI do, or they should've called it in from a pay phone and helped to direct emergency vehicles to the scene. I DO NOT feel that any charges related to speeding should be levied since there is no witnessing officer. But there may be some type of law they violated. I'd want someone to call the authorites to come help me ASAP.

Carl

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Carl 1 Lucky Texan

Can't STI crowd pick up on cars similar to their class? Evo, M3, Corvette, whatever. I think racing a Civic in an STI is pathetic.

Reply to
Body Roll

Might depend on mods in the civic - but yeah, likely outclassed.

street racers - whatta ya gonna do?

Carl

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Carl 1 Lucky Texan

In the twisties with the proper rubber and suspension upgrades it might have an edge. But dragracingwise, like in the case with the poor idiot that got killed, regardless of the mods on the Civic even your unmodified WRX would blow doors on it. Let alone STI. There's just no contest. With an aftermarket turbo on a Civic you still get a one wheel drive car vs. three wheel drive in your case and 4wd in STI. I think Civic/RSX drivers learned long ago that dollar for dollar they lose.

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Body Roll

I wonder if the deliberate rice-racer look of the STI make people think it's just another hot-rodded subcompact? So some kid in a Civic with all of the same spoilers and stripes thinks he can take on an STI because it looks pretty similar to his own whip?

Yousuf Khan

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Yousuf Khan

That is one of the (2-3) reasons I didn't get an STi . Every kid in a Mustang or a 'chipped' F150 or who-knows-what modded VW or Honda is gonna want to pull against you. Then you've got that whale-tail that is gonna attract the cops, maybe your car gets 'keyed' in the parking lot, etc. It seemed like fun when I test drove it and I'm sure folks enjoy them, but it wasn't for me. Let the youngsters have 'em. Problem is 'daddy' is likely putting them into the hands of 'junior' who has little respect for the power and ability of the vehicle.

ymmv

Carl

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Carl 1 Lucky Texan

If I had a hunior there's no way I'd shell $33k plus tax for his transportation. What is the "keyed" issue?

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Body Roll

On 2006-04-26, Body Roll penned:

Three wheel? What do you mean by that?

It's true that kids driving civics want to race you from the light, but I consider this an advantage -- I accelerate just enough to get them going, but let them pull ahead, hopefully acting as cop bait.

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Monique Y. Mudama

hahaha! you are wapce!

;^)

Carl

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Carl 1 Lucky Texan

Someone might purposefully scratch the side of it, vandalism born outta envy or ???

Carl

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Carl 1 Lucky Texan

I had to look that up ... I'll consider it a compliment in this context =)

Reply to
Monique Y. Mudama

I was hoping you'd catch the 'old style' emoticon.

Carl

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Carl 1 Lucky Texan

Monique Y. Mudama was wondering:

two rear wheels and > Someone might purposefully scratch the side of it, vandalism born outta > envy or ???

It saddens me that the machines with the best road handling capacity under $40k get trashed. I saw a red Evo with some grafitti once :-(

Reply to
Body Roll

A good tactic. I've used it for years..on the freeway, I've done that with Beemer drivers, sometimes for hundreds of miles,,

Reply to
William S. Hubbard

No, the Civic won't ever have an edge over a WRX in the twisties.

Some of the Honda boys who are putting

400-700 horses to the ground would smile to hear you say that.
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CompUser

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