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You know what, looks aren't important, I heard this chick can [censored] with the best of them. You were right, performance is everything, would you [censored] her? 
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you are comparing apples to oranges jackass.
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Maybe you don't care about aesthetics of vehicles. A great deal of auto enthusiasts do, get the [censored] over it. And I was comparing cars to women, jackass.
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i care about looks in cars, and maybe im in the minority but i think that the EVO looks a crapload better than the aztec.
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I like the numbers as well, but I think that the EVO is
sh!t ugly. In my opinion though, looks are just as important as performance to me. I must add as well that I do don't know what's up with Mitsu in the looks department as well, every car they have I can't stand to look at.
Just my .02
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well ya know what porsche makes a faster and better looking car than the evo, enough said, game over. If you want a fast car spend more than 30k.
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Originally posted by dnewma04:
Maybe you don't care about aesthetics of vehicles. A great deal of auto enthusiasts do, get the [censored] over it. And I was comparing cars to women, jackass.
It figures that the same people that think the Contour SVT is a sexy car believe the EVO is the most hideous thing they've ever seen. I've heard Camaro drivers that think our car is complete crap. I used to think that, too, until I saw it enough times and drove its homelier younger cousin, the Mercury Mystique, around enough as a daily driver to appreciate its nuances.
In my opinion, both the EVO VIII and the SRT-4 are both very sexy cars--and well done, in my opinion, on everything but the ricer-boy interior (I suppose I'm more of a fan of my ass resting on leather when I'm driving, rather than foam or cloth). But I also recognize that every car has its shortcomings.
However, I think the problem here is that most of you folks that can make claim that a blue oval Ford Contour or Focus SVT are years ahead of the EVO or SRT-4 in looks are actually not looking at the car at all: you're starring at the whore behind the makeup:
You're seeing this:
And this..
And not this:
Or this:
If everyone had an opinion like that, Picasso would have never been famous and we'd all still be listening to classical music, or climbing trees and flinging crap at each other.
With that I say get the Evo if it's what you want. 10 years from now you'll probably end up driving a van anyways (kid's suck).
Tim
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Originally posted by Tim:
<snip> 10 years from now you'll probably end up driving a van anyways (kid's suck).
Tim
Hey! I have 2 kids, and they most definitely do NOT suck. The Wife drives the minivan, which BTW would kick a stock Contique's ass in the quarter.  I drive the CSVT, and a Miata before that. Kids do not equal automotive purgatory until their college education is paid for!  And there's no apostrophe in the plural "kids" Sheesh!
On topic, I think the Evo is ugly in a bad Japanese sci-fi sort of way. In particular, I don't like the nose, but it's the ugly tail that lacks any character I really care about, since that's the part I'll spend all my time looking at anyway  For the money, I'd rather have a WRX STi over an Evo, if I wanted an all-wheel-drive boy-racer. Heck, for the money I'd probably rather have a lightly-optioned BMW 3-series. Or buy stock WRX and call Vishnu Tuning and spend the price difference to get a car that'd kick an STi or Evo's ass. But, I don't like to spend that kind of money on a car, which is why I drive a high-mileage, 6-year-old Ford
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Looks are subjective, but with some of the skins that are being wrapped around imports these days (the EVO being one of them), it's got Ray Charles turning away in disgust...
I'm a package person. It's got to have looks and performance. I'll never deny that the SRT-4 or the Mitsu EVO don't have a distinctive performance advantage over many cars in the same class, but why in the hell do they have to look like roadkill with a steering wheel and gas tank sat on top of it?
I certainly believe an 'Tour SVT has a cleaner, better look about it than an SRT-4 and CERTAINLY a Mitsu EVO. Unless you are packing a turbo or one HELL of a 3L on the 'Tour, comparing performance aspects of these three is a torrid joke.
I'm up sh!t creek with this entire belief structure right now because Cadillac went and dropped the LS6 in the CTS, (i.e., the CTS-V) put some nice wheels on it and "sexed" it up a bit. It certainly needed it from a number of angles, though I'm on the verge of shoving some of my aestetic sensibilities out the window because I KNOW what these V-8's are capable of and what kind of aftermarket is available for them...
I guess there are some cars I'd push aestetics to the side on, but ths SRT-4 or the EVO?
Nah. Some things are just too stinking ugly in my opinion.
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