I've always thought that imports were the coolest of cars, especially WRX's. Well, five years ago I bought my first one -- a 2019 in Dark Gray Metallic. I fell in love with her. I named her Lacey. By that fall I was already ordering parts and doing modifications and getting it tuned. I was hooked.

Five years later I shared something that I thought was pretty cool with r/WRX -- [rolling] anti-lag launch control. I was met with hate and criticism, how I didn't deserve my car, that I was going to blow it up, that I am dumb for driving my car how it is marketed to be driven.

That stung. Why was the community turning on one of their own? That's when I realized something. Most WRX owners are actually afraid to drive their cars even remotely hard for fear of damaging something or blowing up their motor or transmission.

I am hoping that by starting and continuing to invest in this Day X of Launching My WRX Everyday series that together we can overcome the fear and come to the realization that we bought these cars for a reason, and I think that we would be lying to ourselves if we said that reason was to sit and look pretty.

I am under no illusion that launching your car will not lead to accelerated wear and tear. It will. But I don't believe that we will experience a catastrophic failure like have been perpetuated for nearly a decade now on the VA chassis.

With that being said, if you enjoy my content, please consider donating. Or better get, post a video of you launching you car on r/WRX and tag me in it!

I appreciate every one of you that watch, comment and share my content.

Thank you all so much!

Let's launch some WRX's!