Slowride said:
An enthusiast normally likes "less stuff". More stuff means more weight and more things to break.
My wife wants a vehicle with "more stuff".
She also wants me to paint the garage door and replace the gutters, but that is another issue.
That's BS. Maybe you want less stuff. That's fine if you do, but you can't generalize for what an enthusiast wants in a car. That's just a cop out answer to why the Si doesn't have some of the things that come in the GTI at it's price.
The GTI costs more as it gives more things, many "enthusiasts" like those things.
If an enthusiast really wants "less stuff", then list the big and heavy audio equipment in the new Si as a negative. If you are talking about those enthusiasts who want to only drive a certain car on the track on the weekends, then any car can be stripped to it's bare essentials.
The Si is intented for the everyday street driving wannabe racer just like the GTI.
And on those cold mornings in the midwest the Si enthusiast is sitting in his SI in the same traffic as the GTI driver, except that GTI driver has the option of having a heated butt to soothe the start to his cold day. :biggrin:
BTW, if you want the benefit of experiencing the "stuff" and "options" that your wife came with, then you better get the paint and brushes out and clean up those gutters. :wink: