<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Homemade WRX:
the EVO has electronics driving the car, the other two have a driver...that's why the japanese and europeans almost always choose the sti over the evo in comparisons...that and the creature comforts... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
granted my opinion is highly biased here being an evo VIII owner... they have virtually the same electronic packages. The evo has a better sorted AWD control system then the STI does, but the STI has a nicer interior.
have it be known that driving an evo is not "distant", the 8 doesn't have the fancy active center diff however, which my experience is derived from.
additionally, with the evo having an iron block engine, it is much more stout then the STI, and asking any VR-4 owner, they are a nightmare to maintain.
it is easy to make 500+ rwhp with stock bottom end. that is virtually impossble on the STI.
last, i have had no problem handing it to other STI's on the track, even running completely stock. autocrossing is another thing though (i don't mod based off of autocross classes). but my buddies ESP evo regularly puts down the faster times between STI/EVO cars, even with a highly competitive region.
here are some pictures at the last track day i went to this summer.