ITs funny how chrysler put all this effort in the X-Fire (design, engineering, etc) and gave us a 215 hp V6. I mean the engine is powerful and quick enough but not by todays standards. This powerplant would have rocked 6 to 7 years ago but not today. Chrysler should have given the X-Fire the supercharged SRT-6 3.2 from Mercedes as the standard engine and offered maybe a Hemi 8 were the current SRT-6 stands.

But anyow, yeah the STi is a fast car, but remember that cars focus is pretty much engine, No style, college kid looking car-NO OFFENSE, and bland interior; whereas the X-Fire has style, agressive stance, great exhuast note the STi through civilized driving in the city sounds like someone smashed its exhuast pipe pupupupupup, I've driven one to know and the build quality of the X-Fire is far superior to that of the subaru IMO.

However the STi is a fast car and yeah in this case it was driver error. Remember car magazines pretty much say what they want about a car. I can pull R&T, Car & Driver, Motor Trend and all will have different times on any car and different top speeds and handling numbers. So that just further justifies that the driver is the one responsible for making a car fast, or not.