2018 BRZ tS - The Thread for Potential Owners

[Veloist]

Originally Posted by Veloist

Update on tS Nationwide Inventory
Based on a 13 day period (3/8 - 3/21)

WRB: 25 no longer available
CBS: 3 no longer available
CWP: 11 no longer available

39 total no longer available (SOLD or removed from inventory due to reservation)

[nikitopo]

Originally Posted by Clutch

Yep.

Was the issue fixed?

[Clutch]

Originally Posted by nikitopo

Was the issue fixed?

It's still in process but taking entirely too long

[Tmann405]

I got my CWP tS 2 weeks ago I have 450mi and have just developed the clunking at certain times. Im guessing its the strut bars, does anyone have the tq specs for those???

[Viper224]

Originally Posted by Veloist

Please keep us updated! Hopefully something minor.

The CEL went off yesterday on my way home from work. I think I was just an idiot and didn’t tighten the gas cap enough the day before.

[dowroa]

Originally Posted by Viper224

The CEL went off yesterday on my way home from work. I think I was just an idiot and didn’t tighten the gas cap enough the day before.

If you have time to pull the code, let us know! Having the information is always useful!

[Viper224]

Originally Posted by dowroa

If you have time to pull the code, let us know! Having the information is always useful!

I went to autozone yesterday before it went off and their reader kept freezing when they tried to check the code.

[funwheeldrive]

Originally Posted by Clutch

It's still in process but taking entirely too long

I wonder if this is something that's happening with MY17 models also?

[spike021]

Originally Posted by funwheeldrive

I wonder if this is something that's happening with MY17 models also?

I’ve had mine a year now with no issues and so have one or two others I know of. So I’m not sure that 17’s do. Unless it’s an isolated issue.

[botbs]

Originally Posted by Tmann405

I got my CWP tS 2 weeks ago I have 450mi and have just developed the clunking at certain times. Im guessing its the strut bars, does anyone have the tq specs for those???

Same here, clunk when I drive the car out the lot. Sucks.

[yurikaze]

Anyone else having difficulties with the Apple Carplay? Mine doesn't seem to want to play nice with my iPhone or my fianceé's.
Sometimes it works, but 80% of the time it won't.

[rvoll]

Just ordered a 2018 BRZ Limited. I talked with the sales manager who said that demand for the tS is very slow because it doesn't offer any more power for the extra 5 grand. He thinks that unsold tS's will be heavily discounted later this year. It seems the strategy was to limit the quantity and thus limit supply which would raise "demand". Profit margins are extremely high on the tS. I guess we'll see if this is true later this year....

[Veloist]

Originally Posted by rvoll

Just ordered a 2018 BRZ Limited. I talked with the sales manager who said that demand for the tS is very slow because it doesn't offer any more power for the extra 5 grand. He thinks that unsold tS's will be heavily discounted later this year. It seems the strategy was to limit the quantity and thus limit supply which would raise "demand". Profit margins are extremely high on the tS. I guess we'll see if this is true later this year....

Congrats on ordering the BRZ Limited!

If you look at the numbers, 38% of the tS's are either reserved or sold, mostly the latter. It's only March and collectively the Auto Industry has been pretty slow this year. Tax season is dwelling upon people but people are also getting refunds.

After summer, we'll see how many tS's are left. It took the Series.Yellow a year to sell out and it took the Series.HyperBlue about 9 months to sell out.

We are about 36 days from the first deliveries of the tS, with almost 40% gone before the peak sports car sales months (April-August) that's looking really good.

Also, the tS only has $432 more profit than a standard 6MT Limited. There's no money in BRZ's haha...

[rvoll]

Originally Posted by Veloist

Congrats on ordering the BRZ Limited!

If you look at the numbers, 38% of the tS's are either reserved or sold, mostly the latter. It's only March and collectively the Auto Industry has been pretty slow this year. Tax season is dwelling upon people but people are also getting refunds.

After summer, we'll see how many tS's are left. It took the Series.Yellow a year to sell out and it took the Series.HyperBlue about 9 months to sell out.

We are about 36 days from the first deliveries of the tS, with almost 40% gone before the peak sports car sales months (April-August) that's looking really good.

Also, the tS only has $432 more profit than a standard 6MT Limited. There's no money in BRZ's haha...

Eventually, the tS will sell out, but at what price? As I indicated, I think they will be discounted heavily in the future. That said, I only have one data point -- my dealer -- and I live in an area with lots of ancient people like me. I don't think this is a good tS market. I've seen very few septuagenarians with large wings on their car.... (and yes, I'm part of that group....) For that matter, I've seen very few wings on us old people's cars. (But we will see wings, or flames, soon.)