This morning a kid in an audi a4 with the the 2.0T was next to me at a light we each gave it a bit of welly from the lights and in first and second I struggled to keep the wheels from breaking loose...once I got to 3rd I FiST-ed him good, on a warm day it would have been a better showing....but cold and summer tires is slippery. Even in my wrx with my summer tires I would have to keep a light right foot on cold fall mornings...of course in Vermont from October to Late April I had that on Nokian Studded tires - that was a fun snow, ice, gravel set up.