God, I hate to feed the flames in a troll thread... but here goes.
First, I agree with all who said that WickedMotorcar is a troll. It's simply, blatantly obvious.
Second, I have driven the WRX. I took one for a test drive last fall at Carr Subaru, and the salesman let me take it through the paces on SW Humphrey Drive here in Portland, a switchback heaven. My opinion? If you are interested in a ultra-high-speed straight-line runner down the quarter, the WRX is not be the car for you. If you are looking for wood trim and computerized climate controls, go buy a Mercedes. If you are looking for a real sports car/coupe... bad news, the WRX is a sedan. If you are looking for a stoplight-to-stoplight sedan racer with excellent acceleration that can also haul the family and happens to have extremely excellent handling and cornering abilities (plus great all-weather traction), then the WRX is your car. Personally, I really liked how you can throw the WRX sideways at high-speed into a tight corner and still maintain perfect control, just like a rally driver. Very fun.
The original troll-baiting statement that began this thread was that the WRX was only a $15,000 car. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is an extremely well-priced car that competes very well in its target market. Yes, the fit-and-finish is a little rough... it's a damn Subaru for God's sake, not a Cadillac. But the WRX is still a very comfortable car and extremely well-appointed for it price range.
Personally, though, I chose not to buy the WRX, although I considered it. I simply don't like sedans.
One of the easy ways to tell a troll is that they consistently change their argument and/or obscure/cover-up fallacies in their own arguments in order to keep their troll-baiting thread alive. Notice how WickedMotorcar originally begins by stating that the WRX is overpriced crap. Obviously this is not true, and he couldn't defend this argument, so he switched tactics by comparing it directly against the Camaro LS1, a car that is more expensive than the WRX. Oops! Then he goes from saying how to AWD sucks in one post to how it doesn't suck and he used to own an AWD car in the next, to then saying that AWD is unnecessary in the one after that. :disgust:
Troll verdict against WickedMotorcar is guilty. Court's adjourned.