2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder from North America - Comments

"In 2003 I sold the Eclipse and bought a new Subaru Impreza WRX for 22K and some change. 230 HP, corners like a demon, 0-60 MPH in 5.2 sec., AWD and runs circles around 'Stangs, Eclipses, Beamers, Saabs, and a whole slough of "fast" cars costing $10-20K more"

Always love these claims. First your car's best time was 0-60 in 5.4 by Car and Driver. However, Car and Driver doesn't care what they do to the car to get that time... you should. Your clutch takes the full force of your 227 hp engine, which will shred it pretty quickly if you keep trying to beat other faster cars with it. You basically have to launch it at close to redline to get a good start. Smell that clutch yet? A '05 - '07 Mustang will do 0-60 in 5.1 seconds without abusing it nearly as much which already wastes your WRX.

As far as cornering like a demon... maybe if you swapped the pitiful Potenza's out that came on the car. They are the worst handling tires they ever put on a car. I used to slide around in the rain with mine and never felt safe at too high of a speed on them. Yes, I did own a WRX... actually a Saab 92X Aero which is essentially the same. I found that in real world driving, not killing the car, but taking off hard I could get maybe a 6.2 second 0-60 run. My 6 speed Maxima felt a lot faster than my 92X, even though it was slower on paper because you could launch it like a human and still get up to speed very quickly.