The upcoming Evo VIII seems to have all of the selling points for me. I've never been a Mitsu fan, but it will be a very "tunable" platform and will work well in every aspect from Auto-X, to club racing, to Rally-X.

I sell Hondas and have been told that the Civic-R is coming in 2004, but this is from unreliable sources and I think it would hurt the RSX-S sales. We'll see. There is a reason that every Civic Si platform ever made had the featured & advertised color of Fire Truck Red. The new Si's are on their second year and there still isn't a red available. I smell a 2004 R available in RED only.

This may be way too much money, but VW is contemplating bringing the 2-Dr. R-32 Golf here next year. 240 hp / 236 ft. lbs. with the 4-Motion system (Quattro for the Audi crowd) and a 6 speed manual. Yes, it's a 6, and yes it will run 30 to 33K.

The GTI 337 was only around for 1500 copies, but that's my "S.C. of the year" vote. It was one of the only stock suspension set up's that truly was "tuned" and $3K in Neuspeed parts can make it a rocket.