Lightning Lap 2013

[d1ck]

BR-Z Featured. They liked the chassis, but said brakes and power are lacking.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...t-laps-feature

[DarkSunrise]

Actually they said the BRZ didn't lack power, but it wouldn't hurt to have more. Love the "vehicular Adrian Peterson" metaphor. Great way to describe how agile this car is.

I'll post up the blurb so people can read for themselves.

Subaru BRZ • 3:18.6

There is one thing the BRZ lacks. It's not power, though it wouldn't hurt to have more. It's not grip, though we wouldn't turn down stickier tires. It's brakes. We could barely crack off  a single flying lap before the middle pedal had all the firmness of a goose-down pillow. Otherwise, though, the BRZ jukes like a vehicular Adrian Peterson. ­Evidence of the killer chassis can be found in the climbing esses (sector two), where the Subaru, shod with narrower, lower-perform­ance tires, beat the more powerful Hyundai Genesis R-Spec by half a second.

The BRZ forces you to take the proper line exiting the infield in sector four, or its neutral handling may dissolve into oversteer. But the Subaru is predictable, even lenient, when driven less than perfectly. It's the kind of car that gently instructs you, that tells you when things are right and gets slowly loose where you have it wrong. A perfect driving position is a bonus. The BRZ reminds us of the Mazda Miata in the way it responds intuitively to the driver's whim, but the BRZ feels more directly connected to our brains and is faster around the track. We wish the BRZ had its own spec series. That is, as long as the brakes could be upgraded.