A bicycle.

1st Gear: This is all fairly disingenuous since the goal of the reclassification seems to be to destroy the Uber business model entirely, despite evidence that it’s in wide demand.

It would be far more notable if he wished to restore 1999 Toyota Corollas.

He had me at air-cooled Porsches then lost me with ultimate frisbee.

That is just an added expense on most commuter cars, however you will find on some performance cars they do come with wheels from BBS, RAYS, etc...

TBH, this seems like a strange thing to be annoyed about if you’re in to car culture. I mean, do you get annoyed when someone refers to an LS V8 as an LS1, LS3, etc?

All three of our cars are “stiff” (though each differently so from each other). Except for when we forgot to drop the tire pressure after an autocross (yikes, that was jarring on the roads…), it’s not bad for us.

I daily a BRZ tS in Los Angeles traffic, and it’s actually really comfortable, more so than any of the other 24 cars I’ve owned except a Jaguar XK8.

You’ll have some buyers, but you’ll miss the mark.

Depends who you ask.

But it should give you some insight as to just how carefully the car needs to be driven in a place like Los Angeles with holes and ramps and bumps in the road where you don’t always expect them.

At $45k almost none of you on this site clamoring for a turbocharged one of these would buy one brand new. You get what you pay for, and that’s a specialized, LIGHT, low-production coupe for what most can buy for under 30k.

For the $7k difference between a base GT86 and this, you could go to about 280HP and be different than the sea of turbo 4-bangers out there.

Same reaction; I’m absurdly big (essentially 9/10-scale NFL lineman-sized) and easily fit in a FR-S, whereas I’m still emotionally scarred from the drive I took from Seattle to Vancouver and back in a S2000 a decade ago, and cannot even seriously entertain the notion of actually attempting to wedge myself into a Miata.

This kind of comparison is really fucking moronic sexist garbage, and you should really reconsider.

A turbo would make it a worse daily driver, though (less reliable, more expensive, tiny bit heavier, much more of a pain to work on), and I’d be surprised if less than 90% of these are daily driven.

Yes I am aware there are cars out there with worse utility (G37, 370Z, or even Camaro I believe they are wayyy worse?). The fact that I had Civic / Integra hatchbacks before my FR-S make the difference....... I work in the auto industry I do haul a lot of car parts (sometimes even tools!) regularly make it a challenge…

2013 FR-S owner here. 3 years of ownership, my DD + track rat, zero regret. The only complaint I have for the car is the utility (Well shouldn’t be complaining for such car........), and the 4,000 rpm dead spot (fixed with an aftermarket ecu flash).

My ‘13 FR-S (bought in Oct of ‘12) rattled from the start, though fortunately not in a tone or register that really bothered me aside from the natural it’s-a-brand-new-car-for-Pete’s-sake-why?

Everything I’ve read though says that’s just what Subarus do.

Get one. By happenstance, I just got a thoroughly-babied whiteout pearl FR-S last Friday and I am thrilled with it thus far.