End of an era: No more VW van

[cj001f]

I wonder about Canada and Mexico.

They ain't listed on VW Canada's site. Mexico is a whole nother story - they were producing the ORIGINAL beetle there until not that long ago.

[JoshK]

Find me an american car that'll compete with a modded Subaru WRX WTI for less than $32k. An easy exhaust install and a computer mod and it pushs 370hp and gets to 60 in somewhere near 4 1/2 seconds. Not to mention the japanese actually have a concept of something called "handling"

 

Ok Josh, here ya go, stock models, subbing the chip will probably get you more gain in the 'stang than in the roo:

 

2004-2005 WRX Sti: 0-60 4.7sec, 1/4mile 13.2sec, topspeed 152mph, mpg 18/24, $32,000.

 

2004 Ford Mustang Cobra: 0-60 4.5sec, 1/4mile 12.9sec, topspeed 155mph (electronic limited), mpg 16/24, $34,000.

 

Read two months ago(?) american muscle car or something or other mag. They compared the two. WRX was faster 0-to-60 and in the quarter mile. And this was a comparison done by a mag specializing in american muscle.

 

About the chip, you must not know much about the motor in either of these cars. The chip makes a huge diff in teh sub, and will make almost no diff in the cobra. The WRX's motor is turbocharged, they are easy as hell to get extra power out of with a chip. Just crank up the boost. You can't do that with the V8. You can bump the timing and the fuel curve a bit but you'll get a few HPs tops.

 

Finally, as distel pointed out, you can make up for the lack of AWD. Throw some performance winter tires on (Dunlop makes a nice V rated winter tire) and you've got a 370hp sports car that'll get you up to the pass better than any SUV. That isn't even addressing handling, which hasn't ever been mustang's strong suit. Interestingly enough, a lot of the mustang guys actually remove the cobra's stock IRS and put a live axle back since the IRS is prety lousy.

 

Also, funny that they say the subby tops out at 152. I've had mine up to 155 and let off with it still pulling like hell