Originally Posted by Bullseye
The sti's for around 26k had over 20k miles on it, and one was missing the BBS wheels. SO they didn't warrant the extra cash for me. And my biggest thing is straight line performance. Don't forget the SRT-4 can get 30 mpg :-D. For less than a thousand dollars i'll be running 12's So all in all ill have 16k in my srt-4 and running around a 12.7@109 or so. And the handling is fine for me. I just don't think the STi warranted an Extra 240 bucks a month. Maybe if i found one with 5k miles like my srt-4 did for around 25k OTD. But otherwise not worth it to me. Don't get me wrong the STi is one of my favorite cars. I'm sure you could have gotten an STi for what you paid for your RX-8.
~actually dont let the name fool you..i traded in my rx8 for a used 04 STI which had 11K miles on it and stickered at 27K but i payed 26....so i feel thats way better bang for buck than a brand new SRT-4...