I got 03 the second month they came out here and beat the crap out of it at the track and the street with 300whp for 60k miles and it never left me on the side of the road so anyone claiming the 03s had problems are full of shit. Lets not forget the 03s interior was the same for 3 years until the IX's and the 03s did have rear defrost at least mine did I dont know about the turd you bought. Not having a bigger turbo, front lsd etc. arent first year problems the evos EVOLVE and get better with every year. Now that I've said that I would buy a X but im still not convinced there that much better then what we have now.