lose the ralliart an buy an evo ....im picking up an 10Xevo on monday

 

how much they give you for trade in?

 

what would be the point of trading in the RA for an Evo? you basically have the same limitations of an evo MR. sure it'll take you more money to get up there but you bought a cheaper car.

 

Let me put it to you this way I paid 38,900 Canadian after taxes etc... When I went back to the dealer at 7000 km with the car fully upgraded with stereo,tint,full 3M tape undercoat, scotch guard, paint protection, aluminum fuel door and a dozen other upgrades with the car in better than showroom condition. I had just got it detailed for a car show The best 2 different dealerships would give me for trade in was about 26,000. and the Evo would of been 54,000 even before tax. You do the math!

That being said yes I should of bought the Evo but hey my wife took away several thousand dollars to fix up her car so I only had money left for the Rali art. And Happy Wife happy Life besides at that point it was either the Rali art or a Susuki SX4. I think I made the right choice don't you LOL !

 

I think the point is, if you trade an RA in for an EVO, you should be trading it for a GSR. Then again, I wonder how many RA drivers know how to drive a M/T car...

 

lmao, sst has made me so lazy. i never wanna shift for myself again, lol

 

23k for my car.... an i get to keep all my mods .... i would have love to keep the RA but the tranny cant hold any more power it over heats all the time

 

No kidding...this is my first "automatic" car I've ever owned. Now when I drive our other M/T car for a while, I feel like my left leg needs to be like this guy:

 

nice and how much for the evo?
gunna be upside down?

 

You guys seem to be forgetting the SST is a manual transmission it just happens to be high tech in the fact it has a mode in which the computer does the shifting for you. You can upshift or down shift through every gear using your paddle shifters and a lot faster than anyone could shift using a standard transmission. It has 2 sets of clutches 1 for the even gears and another clutch pack for the odd gears.

What some people get stuck on is the fact that in their mind is that if it doesn't have a clutch pedal then it must be an automatic tranny. The way I see it I have the best of both worlds I can let the computer do the shifting or if I wanna race I can do it myself, it's my choice.

 

Whether you believe that the TC-SST is a manual transmission is irrelevant; it is not a traditional manual transmission. And my point was, no matter how masterfully you learn to use the paddles or the stick on an RA, if you've never learned to use that funny little third pedal on a M/T car, a GSR is NOT an option.

Also, throwing $2,000 at a TC-SST just so that it can hold more power (when, from the sounds of it, a decent amount of the power-holding capabilities is electronically limited, not physically) is a very bad idea given the fact that you are completely voiding the warranty on a $10,000 part that is one of the #1 wear items on ANY vehicle.

 

Please....let's not go there. Most of us are WELL AWARE what the SST is and isn't. This topic has been beat to death as much as the RA/WRX debate.

My post was just a joke about my left leg not being as tough as it used to be, now that I don't have a clutch pedal.

 

Yeah, I've gone long periods of time without driving a manual, and I'm always worried that I will have forgotten how. Luckily, from my experiences thus far, driving a manual is like falling off a bike: you never forget how!

 

Thank you, I've been saying this for a long time now. It's still far too early to know what the long term repercussions of modifying the TC-SST are. If you modify the clutch packs, do you also need to modify how fast they engage? What about things like launching? Slowly rolling forward? Will it put more strain on other parts of the drivetrain?

 

Anyway lad boy no one mentioned anything about blowing money on anything. I don't know why punks like you go making stirring up stuff. It's not what I believe it's fact that the SST is a manual Tranny no othe point was made and if you are dense enough to argue with fact well then you do the math. I have been driving standard for close to 30 yrs now and this is a great new technology and I love it. Try and be more positive and stop going out of your way to state your narrow minded opinion. Nuff said.