Power- less overall than WRX
Shifting- tighter than WRX (before the Kartboy shifter mod.)
Turbo power- MSP has less power but its more consistant, less peaky, less laggy.
Miles on car- a few hundred but not fully broken in I'd bet.
Sound- quietly rumbly at idle with a nice mellow gerbert as you romp through the rpms.
Stereo- 10 times better than the piece of crap in the WRX! Maybe a hundred times better. This car has a real stereo with range and bump. It was designed to inspire the young tuner crowd while the ICE in the WRX might as well be a boombox velcroed to the dash. Six disc is no big deal if it sounds like crap. I listen to it in town but out on the road, I turn it off and listen to the music of the boxer and the wheezer. If you open up the intake and exhaust on the WRX it makes the most lovely sounds when stomped through the gears.
I'm sure the MSP would sound great opened up a bit but it would sound different from the boxer, maybe not better or worse just different.
Throttle response- better by far at lower RPMs than the WRX, worse by a good margin at higher RPMs but don't forget the three other dudes I had for ballast!
I've never crammed that many pounds of pork into my go cart and hammered.
Hope that helps...
Brakes- not touchy at all. Strong with great modulation. Again, I tried them with a full load of guys and they were strong. Maybe they would have been touchier without all the people.
Color- impossible to do justice with words, just the a photo can't do justice!
This paint is deep like a show car old fashioned layer upon layer laquer job!
Black- almost color changing as you view it from different angles. Black with silver sheen sort of metal flecks. Like a black girl with silver shimmer makeup.. well, not really but that's an image that poped into my head.
Orange- goes from orange with silver flakes to orange with a yellow shimmer to orange with gold shimmer and back and forth all day.
One thing I know for sure, when the car hits my showroom floor (if they aren't sold before they get there) NOBODY will be able to say that I exagerated about the paint quality (or anything else.)
... kinda like the mp3 laser mica blue i guess.... that was almost a universal "everyone likes it" color... i dont think i heard any bad comments about the blue.... the orange is just more controversial.. "weirder"...