Yianni64, I didn't mean to offend you. It just seems like every forum I visit holds the WRX (along with G35 and M3) on a pedistool as the performance car of the world. Just here was the place I complained about it. Sorry about that. Am I still accepted here?

(My apologies on continuing this issue)
ILuvItTheJDM... I normally would not care about your bias, but it good to have an open mind about cars. I used to be like you, I thought Japanese cars were the **** and American and Korean cars were just ****. I figured VWs were ok. Then I went and bought my first car, and I went to Honda route of course. I plopped down about 18.5k on a 1999 Accord LX. I got power everything, nice cloth seats, a nice interior, automatic. Then I realized though, I could have gotten a fully loaded Sonata. It may not have been as refined, but I would have gotten a V6, leather, CD plater, sunroof, alloy wheels, ABS. I also could have gotten a Grand Am. A friend of mine has one, got it for about a grand more than I got my Accord (bought at the same time too). It's got a V6, manual, CD player, alloy wheels, ABS, great sound system, sunroof. Yeah, it's got cheap GM buttons, the Hyundai didn't have the refinement, but the Honda didn't have the features. No car is perfect.

Anyway... 300hp FWD American POS?
FWD... yes, that can't really be changed.
American... yup, but Dieter Zetsche is making major improvements at Chrysler. I still have reservations about American and Korean cars, I know they're not as reliable as Japanese ones. But they aren't Yugos. If these cars were total crap, people wouldn't buy them. The Koreans are the fastest growing car brands in the US (minus Daewoo), and most of the top 10 selling vehicles are American. F-Series, Silverado , Explorer, Grand Caravan, Focus, Ram, Grand Am, Taurus, Grand Cherokee constantly fight for positions on the list. And VWs, which I used to think were great, have reliability worse than the domestics.
POS... no. The SRT-4 is anything but a POS.

MrFatBooty summed it up perfectly: the SRT-4 is for sport, not some grocery getter. It's to drive past all those Civic Si's, Focus SVT's, Neons R/T's, Matrix XRS's, all the small cars that want to be fast but have leather, cd players, sunroofs, sound insulation, and other crap boggin' em all down. If you loved 'TheJDM' half as much as you claim you did, you would realize that Honda ( a JDM company!) did the same exact thing with the Integra Type-R... performance first.