I just bought a 2011 STI and had it for about 70 days before getting another M. The STI was a fun car, did some auto X in it, just had a great time flying around and not being a little worried of messing something up. Having an E60 M5 before, I just couldn't get the M out of a brain. I'm not back in a 2011 M3 and couldn't be happier