Lets turn this argument around shall we? People can only talk about how well it handles because it would probably lose in a drag race against a v6 camry. For the american market a brand new brz is hard to justify since for half of the price you get a used corvette c5 z06 thats only 300lbs heavier with twice the power STOCK and we all know how well these chevy engines can take upgrades. Its a good car but its not a good bang for your buck car.
You mean kind of like the AE86 it's named after compared to V6 FWD 4 doors of 1985 to 1987? If all you care about is doing one wheel peels at the drag strip in a straight line, there's literally hundreds of options. There probably isn't a single other car in production right now with 4 seats, RWD and weighing under 3000lbs, whereas I couldn't tell you the practical differences between an Accord, Camry, Maxima, Mazda6, Fusion and Malibu.
Yes the ae86 was good FOR THE TIME but youre telling technology hasn't evoled in the last 30 years to make even the smaller engines considerably more powerful. Youre talking as if turbocharging hadn't become common practice especially on sports cars. Aside from that youre talking about the rear as if they were such an amazing revolution but unless youre a midget or an amputee they are pretty much unusable. The cars absolutely needs to be that light because since the engine is so underpowered, if it was any heavier it probably would not move at all.
The point of it is that like the AE86, it's basically a car that doesn't exist anymore. If you want a car with a turbo, you don't even have to look. BMW didn't have any turbo gas cars like 10 years ago and now you can't get one without a turbo. Honda's on their way to be the same. People need to stop complaining that the BRZ/GT86 isn't like everything else. The future where every car has a turbo and high-revving N/A engines are dead and everything is 4000lbs will come soon enough without bashing the holdouts.
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u/simonlepatron Oct 31 '20
Lets turn this argument around shall we? People can only talk about how well it handles because it would probably lose in a drag race against a v6 camry. For the american market a brand new brz is hard to justify since for half of the price you get a used corvette c5 z06 thats only 300lbs heavier with twice the power STOCK and we all know how well these chevy engines can take upgrades. Its a good car but its not a good bang for your buck car.