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If you want to feel great steering feel go drive some old 911s, then drive the S2000 and it'll be obvious. Unfortunately during my S2000 days I spent a lot of time in a 911 RS America and an Elise which didn't help. We all have opinions and that's a good thing. The S2K is one of the few cars that I've owned that I never made a connection with. I've seen many people who just absolutely fall in love with the S2000 and I was just never able to. Not sure why even. Actually driving it to the Carolinas, having relaxed fun in the mountains, etc are my favorite memories of that car, sadly that's a long drive from where I live and not something I could do every weekend. If I lived in Asheville, etc then I'm not sure I would find a better car for the money (otherwise a Boxster Spyder). The S2000 as a coupe instead of a roadster with a ton more steering feel (plus good aero instead of the brick-with-lift aero it has), oh and better rear suspension design, would be an absolutely fantastic car though IMO anyways.
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But yes, one thing I really wished for was a coupe version. Never really liked convertibles and still don't like them. One thing I love about the FR-S is the feedback from the chassis. You understand what it's doing exactly on the road. Kudos to the engineers on the stock setup. I will say it makes it much easier to drive. One or two snap oversteers on my first S2000 back in the days would confirm this. With that said they're really both driver's cars. That I'm sure we can all agree on. |
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In the S2k, if you understeer, you know you're understeering cuz the car stops responding to steering input. In the FR-S/BRZ, you'll know when your're understeering because you'll FEEL it through the steering wheel, before you get to that terminal state of "oh, my steering wheel stopped working". |
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lol sure I'll go with that :happy0180:
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Rear suspension geometry issue (toe change with bump) was fixed in the '04+ AP2. Yours was an '06? So what was your problem with the rear suspension?
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^ ya, I like to run no rear bar (because of the torsen diff) with more rear camber (+) relative to the front.
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lol I was thinking the same thing... i'm sure you'd have a few things to say about both
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Truer words have never been spoken!
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As you can see I registered on here late in '11 with the intent to get into a BRZ but ended up getting back into an S2K. However, my DD is starting to get long in the tooth so now I'm back to looking at the BRZ for DD duty and the S2K for the weekends/track. Still enjoying your BRZ? I'd definitely be interested in your feedback since we essentially own the same S and I'd be going down the same path as you.
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Ask away. Our BRZ is more modded than my s2k... which isn't saying much given my unimpressive mod list, but I have around 18k miles of seat time in the BRZ now.
I can probably answer virtually any question you have, and compare it to both a 06 sti and CR :p |
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