blah blah blah, cast iron sucks, blah blah blah, no replacement for displacement, i swear to god i get dumber every time i read shit like that, my cast iron motor had no problem handing it to many motors more than twice and in some cases 3 times its size, but whatever....the mazda is nice, but being the mitsu-head that i am, i'd still take an evo 3 RS over all that is AWD FI...btw, the evo's are rated better to drive in all the tests over the STi, the Sti just accelerates faster, and understeers about as good as it accelerates, interesting, i'd like to see a couple square off on a road course....someone else made a big deal of the forged bottom end of the STi that the 4G63 supposedly didnt have....well, i guess whoever made that assumption decided to go based on the 4G63's of yesteryear with the high tempt cast bottom end and not to take a newer one apart, as Mach V performance did, to see for themself, and see that it in fact does have a forged motor, its a tough market, so if mazda really wants to jump in on that battle royal, they damn sure better have their best set of wrestling tights on ...ladies and gentlemen, this has been Sean's 3:45 a.m. rant, and i have no idea what i just said