AndyMac said:
Terrible looks, terrible interior, uncomfortable & noisy as ****. Fine as a second car but nobody I know ever keeps one for more than 6 months. It's defiantely a "get it out of your system" or "girlfriends dumped me" car.
I'll be keeping mine a hell of a lot longer than 6 months & when I do decide to sell it i'll hopefully be getting a Evo 9 FQ-360
BTW, I really can't understand people whinin about interior etc. If you want to drive something with a sofa for a seat buy a ****** Jag!!
The Evo ISN'T meant to be comfy or quiet, it's a rally car for f*cks sake!! Sorry but I get a seriously larger amount of fun out of throwin my Evo around tight bends at high speed than I do cruising at 70mph with my *** all comfy on a nice spongy seat on the m/way in my g/fs Audi.
Ok so the looks aren't to everybody's tastes, but who cares. If we all had same taste with looks we'd all be drivin the same car & ridin the same bird
If Mitsi had gone a few steps further with the interior quality they certainly wouldn't have been selling the Evo V for £30k new. For the performance they're a bargain. A mint Evo V can fetch £10k now. What else can you get for that with the same performance as standard, not much really, & most of them will be Jap, Supras, Scooby STi with PPP etc etc oh & the odd over priced German barge that doesn't quite hit the mark in the "FUN" dept
The Evo isn't aimed at the same market as the RS4 etc so you can't really compare too much especially moaning about interior not being up to "Audi"
standards. It's similar to somebody moaning that the Aerial Atom hasn't got a roof
If you want a drivers car, buy an Evo, GT3, Caterham, Lotus Exige etc etc. If you want a big powerful comfy family car, buy a RS6, M5 etc.
I'd say when it comes to buying Evo there's 3 catagories
1) People that can afford to run them & actually buy them.
2) People that can't afford to run them but say they can & they just don't like them
3) People that can afford, but better half puts his/her foot down & says they can't have 1. So they just tell everybody they'd rather have a sensible family car.
My g/f doesn't particularly like the looks of my Evo. I don't really care, it's mine, not hers. She soon found out what the attraction was after she'd driven it a few times.
Craig