Subaru powered Toyota FT-86 Concept

vo2max99

What are you basing "boring as heck on the street" on in regards to the BRZ / FR-S? I've yet to read one review (other than EVO for some odd reason/ they could only muster a 7.6 0-60 so who knows) that says the BRZ somehow needs more power to be fun on the street.

Serious sports car driver's will be on the fence? No, people who understand cars know that cars don't need all kinds of horse power to be a great driver's car.

The MX-5 consistently rates far above EVERY sports car in its segment (exception being EVO X in which case it's close) when it comes to handling and being a superior driver's car.

So seeing as the BRZ / FR-S are no slower than the MX-5 there's no reason to believe "serious sports car driver's" will or should be on the fence. More power, wider stickier tires would help it produce a quicker lab time but that's about it.

As is at its current power to ratio it should strike just about the right balance to be the most fun on the street. More power could be added and you could enjoy the sudden rush of acceleration for short 3-4 second burst at a time before losing your license and so on.

I've found that cars you can push closer to 99% more of the time is a lot more fun / rewarding vs. driving a car which is much faster for short burst. I prefer the actual experience over the bragging rights / #'s.

As far as Mazda convincing people well that use to be the case. Sell of the MX-5 Miata are way down from where they use to be because ppl have been brainwashed into "more in better".

It's the same reason for why Honda stopped production of the Honda S2000 and the same reason Subaru / Toyota unfortunately won't be making too many more cars like the BRZ / FR-S unless people are educated.

They'll just go back to producing high horse power cars vastly inferior to drive than cars like the Mazda MX-5 / Honda S2000, etc because folks keep crying for more horse power. So people who understand cars have to suffer from mass ignorance.

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