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I'm a little surprised their five niche groups didn't include the tuner/racer enthusiast community, the mid 90's was right when Colin McCrae and Subaru were pea
by Steko 10y ago
I'm a little surprised their five niche groups didn't include the tuner/racer enthusiast community, the mid 90's was right when Colin McCrae and Subaru were peaking on the World Rally scene.
- clintonb 10y agoPricing might play a part there. A base WRX starts at $26K. The STI goes up to $35K. The Honda Civic starts at $18K. If you're on a limited budget, your base vehicle needs to be cheap enough so that you still have funds left over for the upgrades.
- kelukelugames 10y agoI knew a few guys in that group. Maybe it's not as big as the other 5?
- rlonstein 10y agoMy friends in autocross and doing track days buy used Mazda Miatas. I'm told that Mazda got the "feel" just right and the handling is excellent with a few upgrades and the cars are cheap[er] to buy and run. I haven't (yet) but I did wring a few rural miles out of a stock 1999 ragtop my wife's friend owned and it was a fun car.
- Steko 10y agoWhile I'd guess the number of actual racers is tiny the number of posers seemed pretty big, I was in college at the time and knew a few guys who had Subarus.