- Jul 28, 2004
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OP: Congrats on the new car. Looks like alot of fun to drive. Is this car your daily driver? How is the power delivery in stop and go traffic? Is it pretty smooth?
Looking forward to the OP posting more pics of the car, especially the interior.
Power delivery? Terrible. Power dips at random spots on the tach. You'll be WOT and you'll feel the revs climb steadily while the car goes from powerful to laid back to powerful again. If you happen to punch it while at the point of a dip, you'll think your clutch is slipping. Tunes apparently fix this.
What's also infuriating in stop-and-go is that the revs hang for a few seconds after you let off the gas. Gotta love that electronically controlled throttle plate. That means clutching in and out of first gear, if you want to do it smoothly, *requires* you to wait for the car or slip the clutch if you don't want the person behind you to crash into you. There's ways to work around this, like blipping the throttle before a shift and anticipating the hang to make the next shift smooth but it's kind of ridiculous - apparently tunes fix this too. I test drove an STI last week that had no such affliction, and the STI doesn't come with CVT option, the WRX does.
Leads me to believe the behavior of not immediately closing the throttle plate after letting off the accel pedal is a remnant of CVT ECU mapping, as for automatic drivers, they would be quite concerned if they let off the gas and the entire car just felt as if it lost power. I could understand how it makes automatics smooth and steady, but it's quite an annoyance for the 6 speed.
More opinions on the car to come.
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