hmm awd isnt all its made out to be...been there done that...if you dont have the rest of the suspension to keep the tires on the road 4 wheels spinning does just about as much good as 2...yea i wasnt impressed at all with wrx handling...had moderate body roll and annoying understeer if you pushed it hard into a corner...im betting anything he rode brakes hard into the corner and then expected his awd to bail him out on exit speeds...too bad wrx awd will slip to the outside wheels everytime...meanwhile the msp has suspension that rivaled that of my corvette...i would take my msp against anything except minis, miatas, and porsches thru a curvey course...those damn minis....