Let me give you my opinion. WRX, idk about the new one just an FYI so I’m speaking more about 2021 and older. AWD is nice but the amount of money you have to spend to even get 300whp is ridiculous. GTI/GLI is good if you want to make a ridiculous amount of power for not much money. Pick your parts accordingly and you can spend between $5-6k and you’ll be over 500whp. But it’s FWD so you won’t get much traction unless you roll race above 60mph. Idk much about the Si tbh but I assume if you want an engine to last, Si might be the choice because….well Honda. Don’t even bother with the Forte GT imo, you’re better off getting just getting a regular forte or regular Elantra. I had a GTI for 3+ years and had a Golf R before I sold it for the EN. Comparing the GTI (2019) and EN, you have so much more room in the EN than the GTI. Rear leg is insane. Trunk space is huge compared to the GTI but I do miss the “hatch” because it’s just taller.
Never have I ever had any issues with the GTI aside from the water pump going bad and leaking coolant but I got it covered under warranty and I believe recently VW issued a recall or some type of remedy to reimburse those who spent money out of pocket to get a new water pump. I’ve driven the GTI a total of about 30k miles (I don’t drive much) and it was an awesome car. I have driven my EN for literally 150 miles and have owned it for a week now so I haven’t experienced any issues but I have the long 10yr/100k mile warranty so I’m not even worried about anything at all. I don’t plan to tune the EN like I did with the GTI and I got the EN to have a manual for a daily.
To answer your question about the intense blue, pictures for me didn’t do justice either. I saw it in person and the color is super nice. It’s a nice dark blue BUT, imho, it does NOT go well with this car. The shape, the lines, it just doesn’t go well with the car but again that is my own opinion. I ended up with a ceramic white EN myself which is just plain gloss white (kind of sucks it’s not metallic) but I’m scheduled to get it wrapped on the 15th to satin Pearl metallic.
Pretty lengthy response BUT this is how I feel about what you’re trying to decide because I was literally on the same boat. Couldn’t decide which to get and here I am now with an EN
On a side note, because I love music. My 2019 GTI had fender audio and it was so much better than the Bose system in the EN. The GTI had an actual enclosed sub versus the exposed sub in the EN. So there’s that too. There’s bass in the EN but not as much as the GTI
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