I'm with Stalker - no not you Gambit, the one with stalker in his name. ;)
The STi used to be a proper giant killer sold at a reasonable price. Now it's only as good or slightly better than modern hot hatches and mid spec German saloons. Sure, as Hammond says, the closest rival is still around £3000 more with the Audi. But they used to be able to keep up and beat cars costing 2-3x as much. It's not really changed since the shark eye performance wise now.
STi's were performance icons, looking at this and the figures, I just can't see that happening now. :(
Hopefully they've sorted the chocolate pistons out this time though.