Strong wordsSo, after reading every SCC since the Modena won the USCC (does anyone else remember that?), and loving the coverage of at-home rally events (discontinuation of which has raised my right brow), I have a small nitpicky complaint. A few months back, you ran a piece about how Ford was one of only a few car manufacturers who had chosen to stay with WRC. Although you were right at the time, you failed to tell the whole truth. Peugeot vowed to return in 2006-07, as did Citroen. Don't believe me? Do a search for the 207. Gronholm is still an ice-cold pimp, on ice. Oh, and Honda are a bunch of wankers for putting that V10 in their Formula One car and then saying they were going to break some friggin' record... would have been better if they'd used the mandated V8 so we could see what's possible. Make Coleman rally 'til he croaks. And then write a good story about it. Pieter Van Hornvia e-mail
STI A-Line for AmericaIn the November issue, I came across Takezo Okiyama's article on the new STI A-Line. He describes it as a JDM model only. Now I may be crazy, but I'm pretty positive that we 'muricans, as of the 2007 model year, can buy almost exactly the same car, in the form of the 500-unit, production-run STI Limited, which, from Okiyama's description, is identical to the A-Line, albeit possessing an extra half-liter of displacement.
Since I'm on the topic of Subarus, I'll take this chance to tell you for the third time that, if you don't add a Legacy GT or Spec B to your project car arsenal soon, I will drive mine out all the way from Ohio to personally embarass your beloved TSX, leaving you with no course of action but to cry and wish you had listened when you had the chance. Stephen Parry Monclova, Ohio
Nice catch, Stephen. We didn't know until we saw the photos that the A-Line was in fact, so similar to our STI Limited, but by then it was too late. Won't happen again. As for the Legacy GTs, we love them too, so either come on down or at least send us a photo.
Of Praise and SuggestionEvery time I read your magazine, it enlightens me on a different aspect of performance that I never even considered and it allows me to eke every last bit of potential from my cars. I also love how you focus on performance and going fast, and skip the BS. You're always featuring track events and that's awesome. The editors' columns are always great reads (except for James Tate's rant about planes in the November issue; no one cares!). It was also surprising and refreshing to see not one but two RX-7s on the September cover, and what? A Camaro?! I hope you might include other domestic cars in the future (like a Solstice GXP vs. an S2000 vs. a modded MX-5 comparison).
A few more comments: first of all, feature more reader's rides! We work hard to make our cars great and they deserve to be seen. Secondly, the articles on the JDM spo-com scene are cool, but I don't want them to compensate for a lack of feature cars (the October issue only had the Yashio Factory Z). Lastly, can I suggest that Jay Chen go for an AE101 4AGE swap and turbo buildup on the project AE86? I plan on doing that setup on my AW11 MR2 and it's not very well documented, so it would help out immensely, and make the AE86 fly as well. I just renewed for two years, so keep up the good work.Corey Kononchukvia e-mail