Huh? The FR-S has the piston badge. I’m confused.

Nothing official yet... but these “spy shots” have been floating around the FT86 forum:

Cannot unsee...

You cant compare new to used. I wont adjust for inflation either. You paid 18k for a 10 year old car. A friend of mine just purchased a 2013 FRS with 7000 miles on it for 18k. It still has a 1 year 29k bumper to bumper warranty along with a 3 year 53k power train warranty. The FRS is about 30% more fuel efficient,…

350 hp BRZ is called a “Cayman S”.... so just go buy one. $64,000 new. But .. you can’t afford that car. Me either. For that kind of money, I would be looking at a new corvette. Wait.. I don’t have that kind of money. What I can afford is an entry level sports car.

True. And for those who cannot ball up to a two-seater coupe, have the ‘4-door’ RX-8 as an option. Both in stock form, the RX-8 almost hangs with the S2000 and can carry a full set of race tires without a trailer. Regardless of what is picked, these (S2000, MX-5, RX-8, BRZ, and FR-S) are all fantastic driver’s cars.

The BRZ doesn’t try and doesn’t want to be an S2000. If you think that, then you really don’t get the BRZ.

$27,000 also buys you a helluva nice used C6 Corvette... which weighs about 100lbs more than a BRZ and has 400hp.

Full disclosure here, I own a BRZ.

I can buy a C6 for the price of a new BRZ, that’ll decimate a BRZ and smoke a S2000. I can also buy a Miata and do a V8 swap. That’ll obliterate the S2000 and the BRZ will be unrecognizable.

Nobody has to know how to actually drive, either

As an owner, I can say this: “The BRZ isn’t the sports car you want, it’s the sports car you deserve.” I use it for track days and am not sure I really want 300-400hp in a car before I really know what I’m doing. On the street, that extra power would be useless anyway. I’ll take the 30+mpg in a great handling car…

I’ve driven a friend’s BRZ and I have no idea why anybody would complain about power delivery in these cars. Are they off-the-hook-tire-smoking-speed-demons? No, but neither is an A4, which weighs 1,000 lbs more and only has 20 more horsepower. I don’t hear anybody complaining about them being underpowered, or any of…

Great article, really mimics my own thoughts on the car. I don’t own one, but that’s the thing... I just paid off the Snuze and want to be payment free for a while. I keep thinking when I am ready in a year or two, I’ll buy an ATS, or a new Camaro, or something. But then I keep thinking about the times I’ve driven the…

“Car companies don’t listen to enthusiasts? The BRZ exists.”

The fact that your average mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, noun-adverb “enthusiast” doesn’t appreciate this car only helps me love mine more.

reminds me of a review I read about the LAnd Rover LR4. Because the company switched from a V8 base (in the US) to the supercharged V6 the review was less than positive because it was slower to 60 by 2 tenths...now only 6.7 second. um...excuse me? this is a disappointment somehow, that a 3 ton off road focused machine…

The BRZ is the car enthusiasts love to complain about not existing yet complain even more when it does, then complain like whores when it goes away.