Last week I did a video on 5 things I hate about my STi, and I felt bad even talking about my STi like that, so this week I thought I’d do 10 things I love about my STi.
Let’s just get the first one out of the way: the Rumble. Dear God. I had a 2018 WRX and was pretty happy with the car. I then traded it in for the 2019 STi. When I brought it home it had 9 miles on the car. After 1500 miles, I replaced the catback system with remark’s exhaust which deletes the resonator and the mufflers, and boy oh boy did the car open up. At that point I understood the obsession with the STi. You can hear it through your headphones, but it’s nothing like hearing it in person.
2. The Handling. You can hear all kinds of terms being thrown out at you like 3 limited slip differentials, but you won’t have the true appreciation for the handling until you drive the car for quite some time. You push the car to what you think is its limit, and then tomorrow you go through the same corner and you realize that you just went through it faster, and you beat your record the next day, and every day after that. Unless you’re a professional driver, or just completely insane, it’s going to be difficult to reach the STI’s full handling potential.
3. AWD capabilities. A few years ago, Snowmagedon happened in Atlanta. Can you believe that that was in 2014? I honestly thought it was in 2017. I can’t even remember the car I was driving in 2014. Oh that’s right, it was the BMW 550i. No wonder. I have made it a mission to erase those memories from my brain. Besides the point, I remember telling myself that I was going to get an AWD or 4WD vehicle when the only vehicles that I saw zipping up and down the street were Jeeps. So I traded my 550i for a C6 Corvette. I know, logic. But I had to get the Corvette out of my system. We had another small apocalyptic snow scare and I decided to get a Subaru. I wanted the previous generation hatch but every dealership that I went to said the exact same thing, “we literally just sold it.” So finally I went to one and said, “ok it’s gone. Fine. Do you have this Rubicon in stock?” I got the Jeep and it was actually a pretty fun vehicle, up until it became a maintenance nightmare. In 2018, I switched to a new WRX and was extremely happy knowing that I had AWD capabilities.
4. The Wing. I don’t care how old you are, when you see the STi wing, your body involuntarily shivers in excitement, you wipe the drool from your mouth, and you do what we all do, take a selfie with it, post it to instagram and say, “who needs friends when you got this wing?” For those of you that don’t have an STi, I was like you once, more mature in my head, casually browsing STi’s online and thinking, “I’m an adult. I should get the STi with the Wing Delete. It’s still an STi.
5. Manual transmission. There’s one brand that understands us and wanted to keep the STi out of the reach of anyone other than a pure enthusiast. I could honestly make an entire video out of just this, and I did. Check it out so that I don’t have to repeat myself.
6. It has 4 doors. I already own 2 coupes, the C5 and C6 Corvettes, and I love that they’re coupes, or hatchbacks if you want to get technical. I love that they’re 2 seaters. The only thing that I don’t love about them is when I’m driving off and my son is looking at me as I’m leaving him standing in the garage. Besides the car being manual and AWD, the sedan is my only other requirement.
7. Built for a roof rack. I couldn’t believe my eyes when Subaru released the WRX in 2015 and it didn’t have mounting holes for a roof rack. The continued this craziness up until 2017. How are you going to market yourself as a brand that can go anywhere and not have roof rack mounting holes? I didn’t have to worry about that, but I know a bunch of people that were pissed.
8. Adaptive Headlights. I never thought that headlights would make a list of things that I love, but here they are. I’ve had other vehicles that have adaptive headlights and they’re so smooth that you don’t even notice them. Not with the STi. These things turn so violently that the only thing that’s missing is someone screaming “Judo Chop” every time that they turn.
9. The brakes. Who could have thought that brakes could add that much personality to a vehicle. I don’t think that there’s been a day that I haven’t walked by my car and thought “Good God those brakes are massive!”
10. The community. I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of a few communities. But the WRX and STi community is a lot more passionate than any other community. It’s a dream car for kids and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been stopped so that the person can tell me how that’s their dream car. It’s only happened once in the Corvette. You also have that enthusiast crowd. Hence, no automatic transmission.
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