I'm on my 2nd STI and I'll
I'm on my 2nd STI and I'll never go back to FWD again. I put good winter tires on my FWD cars and they just couldn't compare to the STI with good winters on it. The biggest advantages are starting from a stop and going up hills (or both), but since there are hills everywhere where I live, it makes winter driving so much easier. If I lived somewhere that didn't have winter weather, I'd be tempted to get the Civic Type R.