The sti was only slower because they forgot to put the sti fog light covers on

I don't care which one is faster I love both of them.

Those were the Golden times.. For top gear and JDM fans.

Seems like car design was so much better 10-15 years ago

It's 2019 & I'm still yearning for that old feud of Evo & Impreza

R.I.P Evolution series.

Evos are red Subies are blue But it doesnt matter Because both go stututututu

Roses are red Sky is blue Subie is still in pruduction Evo where are you ?

Why can't ppl just appreciate both cars for what they are. Both cars are great however I lean more towards the Evolution VIII, it's just preference.

Where did they find an STi in that colour?

Yeah I get the feeling the DCCD controls were messed with because there was a ridiculous amount of understeer for AWD. Even still, the evo will always have better lap times but I would prefer to daily a STi for its more civilized nature

Love how the STI sounds, love how the Evo drives.

I am an impreza fan The evo is much better on the track ,but lets take it out of the track and go to mountain roads,gravel,snow,mud

Mitsubishis are better track cars, but Subarus are better rally cars

I drive a Lancer and I enjoyed this clip, but I feel the need to say I'm disappointed in this youtube channel. As much as recycling old Top Gear clips for essentially free income is a great business model, I, and many other subscribers I'm sure feel undersold by _The Stig_. When the trailers for this channel were released, they gave the impression that there was going to be some original productions made around The Stig himself completing new challenges and doing fun stuff for youtube. Instead this is just a dumping ground for things already seen and a place for BBC to pocket a little more beer money. If I didn't also happen to enjoy old, easy-to-digest TG clips now and then, I would have unsubscribed. Just know that I am mildly disgusted by what this channel has brought on.

I never understood how Subaru's sales of the STI outdid the EVO......EVEN THOUGH the Evo almost always beat out the subaru.....RIP EVO doesn't make much sense

Yes of course this gets shown to me after I just bought a blobeye RS

Good things doesn't live forever like the evo and the Topgear! RIP

lol all the 'boys' clicking dislike

I would be interested to see a “rally like” test

I like the Subie a bit more. This is coming from an unbiased opinion

I'm pretty sure they switched the DCCD controls for the STI into lock making it understeer, it should be in a rear biased setting for this track

Subaru fans be like : NOOOO GOD No GOD PLEASE NO NOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I've got a bugeye wagon and I can definitely vouch for the understeer it's aweful

Mitsubishi killed Evo. What a shame. :(

Would be interesting to see the evoX against the '18 STi since it's had the suspension overhauled. Old STi's were understeer killers unfortunately. Would be a fair comparison since the STi still uses the EJ257.

The thing with these cars, to be driven to their maximum potential they need a different driving style especially the Subaru. I have driven both cars and they are a bit understeering INITIALLY and that is very true for the Subaru. The trick is to introduce a little bit of oversteer and then hold it with the throttle playing around with a 0 steering angle. Essentially you should not let the tyres roll into the corner in a progressive way as you do with most race cars but snap them into a corner. It is a tricky and counterintuitive thing to do but that's how you get the maximum from both of these cars. I remember the first time I drove an STi and I almost crashed it on the first right hander turn because of its inherent understeer because I went to drive it normally, I saved it and then snapped oversteered for the immediate left turn and was so much easier to control, then it dawned on me that my driving style had to adapt to the characteristics of the car and not the other way around. That being said the latest gens of Evo can be driven very close to their maximum potential even with a traditional driving style but from Evo 6 and before that is not true

"Faster doesn't mean it's better". Well, one thing is being slower because the engine isn't as powerful, or there's more loss of power in the drivetrain. It's completely different when it's slower because it understeers like it has food trays under the front wheels. IT IS still a very capable rally car, but I can't imagine it understeering less than the EVO there either

You want a better car you pay for quality the Mitsubishi Evo is it. The only reason was Subaru outsold the Mitsubishi Evo is because more people could have afford the Subaru more than the Evo plus I think people just like the exhaust note of the Subaru More.

For both of these all wheel drive rally style cars you need to turn into the apex later instead of diving into the turn almost touching the inside line/ edge of track and expect them to continue that line. All wheel drive cars have the fastest exiting speed when used correctly..... you can’t have a all wheel drive car built in 05 to have the technology to have a driver corner incorrectly but fix the drivers error by changing wheel spin and rpm to decrease understeer. Long story short, both cars are great, I just wish they had been driven through the apex correctly to increase lap times.

I could rewatch this over and over. The long question answered best part is that the Stig drove so you can't complain. :)

I still take sti for its look and exhaust sounds lol

Faster doesn't mean it's better car. I love them both but most people still prefer Subie over Mitsu.

These cars are made for rally not for street

Honestly if the DCCD controls were set up correctly, the STi would likely tie with the Evo, or quite possibly beat it.

Both of them are works of art. But id go for the Evo 😍😍

But for how long will it be faster until it breaks? Nah, I love em both, though I am a little biased toward the Evo...

1k likes and 982 dislikes so evo and STI fans are almost even

This was sort of like a mid 2000’s equivalent to the Mustang vs. Camaro argument of the late ‘60’s.

Before I even finished the video I couldn’t wait to read some comments 😂

I love both in the end!

Sheeshe, the handling on that evo is just insane. Especially when you watch the subaru run.

The Mitsubishi looks better to me than the impreza but sadly it has been discontinued. But there is hope for it as Mitsubishi claims that they are going to revive it as an EV

The pro drive series stoked me...you have to know how to accelerate in and out of bends, it has brutal power!

Both fabulous high performance cars, going up in value by the week these days 😎😎

Subaru- lower rpm, quicker acceleration, boxer engine turbocharged. Mitsubishi- higher rpm, 4G6 or 4D6 four cylinder DOHC engine turbocharged.

Nice comparison.. I really wish we'd get to see Top Gear as it was.. but I guess that's difficult to happen :(

The evo IX is newer than the blob eye. They should have raced the hawk eye. The hawk eye is faster. Not that it matters. These guys are biased. They even made a commercial for the evo x saying that it is built in England.

impreza never caught evo on performance up until now. too bad

My eyes hurts when I see Subaru trying to turn corner. 🤣🤣🤣

Ever since the Evo went out of production, the value of my MR Mk8 has almost tripled! Well played Mitsubishi.

Big fan of both cars and I’m not saying the Subaru is inherently better, but that statement at the end “This is the faster car, so the Mitsubishi is the better car.” is just an outright false thing to say no matter what two cars you are talking about.

Why are there so many dislikes?

A storms a comin.....

Always been a fan of both. I love my eclipse and evolutions though.

Evo, STI, Mazdapeed, SRT4 and among others. The golden years for sure!

Supra vs skyline ?

Bring back the evolution !!

disliking the bloody video isn't going to change anything people, wake up, just enjoy what we have left of top gear...These random vids and rewatching the old episodes. Don't ruin it for everyone else

That shape of Evo looks better than the Evo 10.

BRING BACK TOPGEAR

10k on your hand mitsubishi Evo 800hp. Subaru Sti 500hp another reason why mitsubishi is better. I like how people buy Subarus just because of the cool sound it makes. Mitsubishi is clearly better and it sucks it got discontinued because all the boys like that Subaru rumble and not actual speed.

Old school, rip them days

This has been proven with other sources. Evo has always been the better rally car.

What episode is this from?

Evo can win on asphalt. But I'd like to see both of them racing on off-road.

when i was younger i really wanted a WRX,but now i know that you have to take the heads off,check valves,new belt etc.. on every 50 000km !!!

Diamonds are forever, stars eventually explode and die.

Which one is more reliable?

The Lancer is MR version which is better thn gsr, and the sti isnt a spec c , lighter an fast

I like the Lancer Evo. the most because it's easier to tune and can expand the engine better. As for the Impreza, when you tune the engine it runs fast. But there aren't many engine accessories like the Lancer Evo.

As someone who isn’t into Japanese at all, Subarus have always seemed boring but Evos are kinda cool. And the fact that the Sub was slower than the OLD Evo tells me everything I need to know.

bring back top gear or else. im warning you BBC.

so many ignorant people on here, most of which have never driven either car. i have driven both though i can agree with this video the WRX understeers horrendously , the EVO is a much much better driving machine from factory feels like a racecar for the road and i ended up buying one over the WRX for that reason. oh and the fact every man and his dog owns an STI that massively put me off too. the EVO is more of a japanese exotic car, rare beast from the east and much better road presence than the subaru. however the subaru isn't a bad car its actually very good but is no match unless in at least a 'SPEC C trim' to be up there with the EVO.. each to there own though

Both great cars the wr1 scooby had a diff lock as Japanese spec scoobys do so to me the car was set up in the wrong mode to understeer

I cannot fathom why they stopped producing the evo. Why wouldn't you just modernize the interior of the car, keep the same aggressive bulky body we all know and love and give us a similar engine. We would have been happy. Why kill off a legendary car?

I could sense the tears of the Subaru fanboys, I can almost taste it...

I think he drove the subaru wrong. Now the EVO obviously has better handling, however, I feel as though the driver here, after having just driven the EVO, was trying to break his record by driving the subaru the way he was driving the EVO. You can't drive it exactly the same. You can't use the exact same peddling. He learned the EVO well. He did not learn the subaru well. Of course it has more under steer.. that's why you don't floor it around the corners like that. I don't think he used very good lines with the subaru bc he was trying to make it be exactly like the EVO.

the subaru was still more aimed at rally and the evo at street could explain the massive bodyroll and understeer.

Impreza and Lancer always wrestling each other like competing brothers. They may be fight and taunt each other but at the end of the day they sleep in the same room. Like brothers.

lol Que the angry STI fan boys.

sometimes it's the driver who creates understeer ....plus my opinion is that the subaru is the better care....over the course of its rally time from 1998 -2005 it's pick up 46 wins and the evo only 24...also the suspension is better on the subject look it up please😀😁😁😁😁😁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

Some say the stig had dinner last night with Capn Slow, a hamster, and a guerrilla.

My dads got the wr1 and by the way that Mitsubishi has been modified you can tell because the intercooler has been moved to the front when it’s supposed to be under the bonnet

everyone forgot the spec c sti it will leave the evo fq320 in dust

1.7k butt hurt subaru fans who picked the wrong car.

My dad had that WR1 is special one of impreza was good car but I prefer the P1 Subaru

Love both of them

NO NO NO i dont accept these results

Mitsubishi is faster subaru is stronger

I'm a Subaru enthusiast, but I still like that Mitsubishi and I would like to see the Subaru do the same test again with new tires.

i have never seen an sti in that shade of blue, such a gorgeous car. the viii mr is a supreme car but both are sick

Subaru = unreliable engines, piss weak gearboxes, floppy chassis and a terrible sound

well evo is dead soooo

I owned them both. Bone stock, the evo is clearly faster around a track and handles way better. There’s no denying that. A good set of coilovers are mandatory on a scoob if you want it to be really fast around corners.

Don't treat them like rivals, they are brothers...

but the evo sounds absolute bullshit. the sti sounds million times better and it is million times better

Yeah thats why Mitsubishi stopped the EVO line,, piece of overheat $hit

just checked the mot history on the EVO lol. It has a recall notice from mitsi. Still has valid MOT till 12th July :) Good old evos gotta love em.

Now, we're asking the real questions