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Old 02-11-2019, 02:36 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by bfrank1972 View Post
Ah I used to have a 91 MR2 turbo, another car with a 'scrappiness' to it. Really enjoyed that car for years until I went to an E36 M3. Better overall car, but while it brought that refined hunkered-down glued to the road feel, I lost some of that playfulness inherent to the light nosed MR2. The 86 feels the closest to the MR2 (despite big differences in power delivery) of any car I've driven to date.

So with the new BRZ & the Camaro 1LE (another car I considered once), which one do you grab the keys for more often? The 1LE is an amazing piece of engineering, and I really like the way they look/sound, but I can't get over how claustrophobic I felt sitting in the cockpit. Both visibility and cockpit elbow room, I was surprised how tight it was compared to my tiny FR-S - I figure it's just more of what Chevy was going for when they designed the car, and probably something you'd get used to fairly quickly.
Well since the BRZ isn't street legal yet (it's a salvage car that's been waiting for a working SRS module for weeks - it arrived this morning so HOPEFULLY it works...).

However, I drive my 94 Accord Wagon daily. I don't care if it gets wrecked, door dings, etc. I don't even have comp or collision insurance on it because.. well why would I?

However since I really don't want to pay more insurance money I will be selling the accord and daily driving the BRZ. The Camaro has 6k+ miles on it and I absolutely love driving it. I'll be all in under 10k for my 2015 BRZ though so I'd rather risk it on a daily basis.. at least until I get too lazy to swap seats for track days and just leave buckets in it.. then I'll DD the Camaro. The ventilated and heated seats and 100x better infotainment system plus the power and feel of the car certainly makes me want to drive the Camaro more. Currently I have to move a car to get the Camaro out of the garage.. and team lazy and all that.
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