Dang me:

Transverse 6 in an AWD car which is already nose heavy? There's just no advantage to the 6 when you can get an Evo down into the 8's if that's your thing and your wallet agrees.

Bergan came up with a safety standard for pet harnesses, the V9DT standard.

Never driven an Evo X, but I rode shotgun in an Evo X where I was an instructor at a SCCA RallyX school our region puts on.

How about inattentive idiots behind the wheel on their phones texting?

Motorweek is what got me into an Evo. At the time I was driving a 2001 Jetta VR6 and I saw a segment where they drove the soon-to-be-released-in-the-US Evo and I was sold. Went to the dealer the following Monday and put down a deposit sight unseen on a 2003 Evo VIII. That car was my daily driver and RallyX car…

Not to mention that the FIA homologated gearboxes from X-Trac and Sadev are for transverse engines. If you didn't know, WRC cars run a spec drivetrain.

That's the catalytic converter. In Rally-America you have to run one but the placement is free. So putting it at the back reduces the amount of flow it chokes.

I'd love to have an Evo X MR as a daily driver. I had no problem with my previous '03 Evo VIII and wasn't put into the hospital by my '06 Evo IX RS. I would think the X MR would be perfect, a bit softer with the Bilsteins, the SST when traffic is crawling so I don't have to feather the clutch 50 times per mile,…