If $599 is 50% of your paycheck this probably isn’t the car for you...

I wanted our BRZ as much as my husband… so we used my mom to decide if we should get it. :D (our savings were solid for it, and even she couldn’t argue against it :P )

We were at a RallyX and took our BRZ as the “support vehicle” as it was the easiest to put the WRX’s wheels in. :D I think we had the wheels, bin, helmets, cooler… Passenger seat was empty and unmoved. The jack probably went in the WRX, but it’s pretty big, though we probably could have slid it in there still. I…

“Hey honey, gotta work on the car today. This should only take me an hour or so, and I’ve got everything I need already.”

Yep, I’ve packed four spare wheels, all necessary tools and overnight bag for track weekends in my FR-S no problem.

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.

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…