Hi, Guest
I just had an Echo sedan on rental (Arranged by the dealer, paid by the dealer! Stockfish rocks!) while I found out my vibration in reverse was severe ice buildup on the rear tranny mounts. 27 bucks later, I'm back in business. Did I mention Stockfish wins once again? 27 bucks for my peace of mind... I can handle that. But I digress...
The Echoes are bloody International Harvester tractors in disguise! The motor's boomier than the SPI, has less balls, and no willingness to rev above 4000 RPM. No wonder it's a rental vehicle... no-one buys them! :D :lol:
Handling.... drunken cow comes to mind. They're also quite shitty in the snow, and the Echo had new tires, same as the Focus. The intermittent wipers have ONE speed... annoying. The seat has no height adjustment, the gauge cluster was put in by a drunken refugee, and they actually have a dash light for COLD coolant? Are we to be led to believe that all Echo drivers don't understand that a cold engine = no heat first thing in the morning? :lol:
The car's actually quite funny. I got smoked by a Chevy Astro minivan on the highway from a rolling start, and badly. No guts at all. I've decimated an 89 Prelude stickshift with the SPI, and you could HEAR he was on it... maybe just out of tune, but whatever. I won, and that's the point. I've slapped countless different vehicles of every creed with the SPI, and that's just downright impressive.
The brakes are the only redeeming point on the Echo... but they're so effective they're actually scary in the snow, especially on a snow-packed highway. I took the rental to our office on the edge of town today... and I was glad to be back down the hill after that. It's just TOO twitchy in the fluffy white stuff. The steering is massively overboosted for a car that size... it feels like a Kenworth in action while having the dimensions of Mr. Bean's winter beater. No parity there whatsoever.
Not that I kept track today while driving :D :lol:
The Echoes are bloody International Harvester tractors in disguise! The motor's boomier than the SPI, has less balls, and no willingness to rev above 4000 RPM. No wonder it's a rental vehicle... no-one buys them! :D :lol:
Handling.... drunken cow comes to mind. They're also quite shitty in the snow, and the Echo had new tires, same as the Focus. The intermittent wipers have ONE speed... annoying. The seat has no height adjustment, the gauge cluster was put in by a drunken refugee, and they actually have a dash light for COLD coolant? Are we to be led to believe that all Echo drivers don't understand that a cold engine = no heat first thing in the morning? :lol:
The car's actually quite funny. I got smoked by a Chevy Astro minivan on the highway from a rolling start, and badly. No guts at all. I've decimated an 89 Prelude stickshift with the SPI, and you could HEAR he was on it... maybe just out of tune, but whatever. I won, and that's the point. I've slapped countless different vehicles of every creed with the SPI, and that's just downright impressive.
The brakes are the only redeeming point on the Echo... but they're so effective they're actually scary in the snow, especially on a snow-packed highway. I took the rental to our office on the edge of town today... and I was glad to be back down the hill after that. It's just TOO twitchy in the fluffy white stuff. The steering is massively overboosted for a car that size... it feels like a Kenworth in action while having the dimensions of Mr. Bean's winter beater. No parity there whatsoever.
Not that I kept track today while driving :D :lol:
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.