A co-worker of mine has a bug eye WRX with a 3inch catless turbo back exhaust, boost turned up to 15 psi and some stance bro springs to throw it on the ground. Car has 275k and the fresh motor has 45k on it. He wants to trade straight up for my miata. Now I really want a turbo car, I just don't know if I want THAT turbo car..... also his wrx is a automatic. So how bad is a automatic Subaru?
No.
Just no.
I wouldn't. Unless the Miata was a $500 Miata, then I might.
Why not just turbo the Miata?
...So a co-worker of mine wants to swap wives with me. My wife is nice and fun to be around, though not a super model, she's smart, responsive, and great fun to ride. His wife is pretty ugly, has a terrible attitude, isn't clean, not too smart, kind of trampy, has slept with every guy in the neighborhood, was treated last year for a couple of venereal diseases, dresses like a plumber, and is not much fun to be around. Now, I really want a tall woman, but maybe not THAT tall woman. WWGRM do? How bad can it be??
I had a 2004 WRX with a stick. My nephew had a 2005 with the automatic. The automatic was better than I expected, but I still liked the stick better.
The WRX was more fun than any of my Miatas, but I can't imagine one with that many miles not being a rusted out pig / money pit, even if it lived it's life in the desert.
@Dr.Hess, Actually my car was less 
. SVrex, that honestly had me laughing my ass off. Seems the hive has spoken,Time to start saving for a turbo kit
Go pay someone a thousand dollars to punch you in the dick. Cheaper and less painful than that wrx.
Dusterbd13 wrote: Go pay someone a thousand dollars to punch you in the dick. Cheaper and less painful than that wrx.
I'd do it for $800, 'cause I love my fellow GRMers.
NO x100000
In reply to SVreX: I reread this 6 times trying to find the flaw, something to correct....and I just can't. Perfectly said sir!
KyAllroad wrote: In reply to SVreX: I reread this 6 times trying to find the flaw, something to correct....and I just can't. Perfectly said sir!
Anybody shows that post to his wife, there will be a big "flaw" to correct in the middle of SV's face. 
Jerry From LA wrote:KyAllroad wrote: In reply to SVreX: I reread this 6 times trying to find the flaw, something to correct....and I just can't. Perfectly said sir!Anybody shows that post to his wife, there will be a big "flaw" to correct in the middle of SV's face.
What face? She'll rip it off! She's as New Yorker!!
The WRX might be a good trade.
Depends on how big a stack of hundreds in the glove box. 
Blitzed306 wrote: A co-worker of mine has a bug eye WRX with a 3inch catless turbo back exhaust, boost turned up to 15 psi and some stance bro springs to throw it on the ground. Car has 275k and the fresh motor has 45k on it. He wants to trade straight up for my miata. Now I really want a turbo car, I just don't know if I want THAT turbo car..... also his wrx is a automatic. So how bad is a automatic Subaru?
Put a stock replacement suspension on it and a good torque converter and go have some fun. Automatic WRXs are a good time.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GPkfQDR4-oQ
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RLS1jLX5-dw
Oh, and a steering quickener. Need one of those too.
The automatic trans is a lot stronger and better geared than the frag-o-matic 5 speed, which was a fine trans for the pushrod 1300cc cars from the 70s but not so much for a car weighing nearly twice as much with three to four times the horsepower. Plus. the automatic in the GDs has a really technically interesting center diff, it's a cam-and-pawl diff that gives a slight rear drive bias, versus the VLSD bevel diff of the 5-speeds.
Wife Trade and Dick Punch analogies. Both were perfect. Only on GRM
In reply to Knurled:
I was thinking along the same lines. De-stance it and have fun.
Or leave it as is and purchase hew headgear...
I like Subarus and even this sounds like a "No Deal" situation to me. High mileage, automatic, stanced out. Yeaaaaah, no.
I turned him down, only after driving the car. The coil overs had the most jarring ride I've ever experienced. The auto shifted crisply for a old fashioned 4 speed. The back seat seemed much smaller than my DD focus.... the Miata remains in the fleet. This thread has been helpful and very entertaining
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