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Be it taking my girl out to dinner and pulling up to a valet in front of a nice restaurant or leaving a work function, it was embarrassing at times. I don’t feel that way anymore with this gen. Simple as that. It’s more refined and a higher class looking car. That is the best way I can explain it. Sorry to hurt anyone’s feelings.
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I loved my '17 PP, I love my '23. They are not that different, I do miss a few things from the '17, but the new one is a lot faster at the track so all is cool. But the idea that the old car was *embarrasing* and the new one somehow isn't?! I mean, I literally had a fellow FT86 owner/tracker at the track complement me on how well my old '17 car "fixed up" after the incident, when he was looking at my new '23! Old car was GREAT, new car is GREAT. I *LOVE* them! |
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sounds like you're too fancy for the car!
all my out-to-eat meals involve a drive-thru! even after 8 years, 2015 is the absolute newest of this car i ever want to go, and nothing sports-car from anything in the last 20 years really ticks the same boxes for me.
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I have and will still tell the valet I'll park it myself.
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trust fund kids smh
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Eh, I don't see the first gen as embarrassing. In fact part of the reason I bought one is so that me and the girlfriend can go to autocrosses and track days together. I had been using my 2nd gen for that, but I don't love using my main car as a track day car. My Miata is a shitbox that I won't drive her around in. AC doesn't work and it's kind of a deathtrap, I also don't trust it for longer trips. The first gen has working AC and shows no signs of major issues. I still like my 2nd gen a lot more, it feels like a more grown up sports car than the 1st gen.
I find both of them to be a generation behind on the interior from what pretty much everything else is doing. It's the price to pay for a cheap sports car. The 1st gen feels like something from the mid to late 2000s, and the 2nd feels like something from the mid twenty-teens. My 2017 Camaro had a nicer interior than the 2nd gen, and the girlfriend's 2017 Civic seems about equal. I have less recent experience with late 2000s cars, but the most recent was a 2011 Mustang, which Mustang's aren't exactly known for their interior quality, and it seems roughly similar to the 1st gen.
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Depends on what year you got i guess, cuz IMO the original ones from 13-16 looks pretty boy-racerish, the refresh in 2017-2020 looked a little more grown up, and the 22+ 2nd gen does give it an even more refined, "adult" look compared to the first gen. Alot of this is actually kind of hindsight though, cuz each newer iteration makes the older one look...well...old. I don't think any of them would be "embarrassing" to be in though regardless of status (unless you mod the shit out of it, then it could be embarassing for different reasons)..... If you're driving a Twin of any kind somewhere and its being "compared" so to speak to say an F type or an M3/M4 or something of that ilk....I wouldnt think its embarassing, but the 2nd gen does look a little closer to their level than the first gen does imo. |
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It actually comes up more often than you'd think - there are machines out there that can be incredibly stubborn about booting from USB. Being able to "identify as an optical drive" has made a complicated problem simple at least 4 times in the last year. Well-worth the $20 I spent years ago on this thing. (Incidentally, if you're looking for a device specifically for that issue, IODD makes an external SSD that can do all that and more - the ST400. LOVE that thing. Holds a crap-ton of ISOs and can mount them like an optical drive, USB, whatever you like. But it won't rip CDs.) As far as the point about selecting certain songs or not, ripping large music collections, and so on: First up, saying it's a big job is an argument for starting now - not ignoring it entirely. If you think it's going to get easier to listen to CDs in your car in the future you're not paying attention to the way things are going. So eventually THAT is going to become the harder task. If you wait until then to start converting your music collection to MP3 it's going to take that much longer to get it done and you may have difficulty finding an external optical drive then. Imagine if you wanted to convert an 8-track collection to digital media today... that'd be awful. The sooner you start, the sooner you finish. Plus, there's nothing to say you have to do every CD, or that you have to do them alphabetically or whatever. Do your favorites first. Get the most important stuff done, then do the rest as time allows. NBD. Second, don't think of it in terms of only ripping the songs you want to listen to in the car. Do them all - the time you spend making the decision of what to keep and what to discard is probably greater than the time of just converting everything, and the space they take up is negligible in modern storage. My entire library is something like 12,000 songs and takes 55GB of space. It's not tiny, but you can get a 1TB external drive for like $50-100 depending on speed/quality these days. That'd hold my entire library 18 times over. You just want to get every single song moved from CD to MP3 and stored somewhere convenient. Then you move the specific songs you want to a USB drive to listen to in the car. (Use the smallest USB drive you can find that isn't super old/slow, and keep the song-count reasonable - a few hundred or so - because most vehicle systems don't read very large drives or file systems well.) If you wanna get nuts, look at something like Plex which can allow you to do music, TV, and movies all on the same media server. They have a phone app (PlexAmp) so that you can stream music right off your computer at home onto your phone (and thereby your car via Android Auto or CarPlay). I don't do that personally - I have it set up but I either listen to the USB drive or Pandora. Not once have I missed having CDs in the car. They were such a hassle - either rolling around loose or having to mess with a binder of discs, trying to find a particular one that was never where it was supposed to be... digital files don't slide off the seat when you brake hard, and are always right where you put them. |
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I never got comments like “that looks like a Porsche” or I thought I saw your car but it was a Caymen type comments when I had my Gen 1’s. Now I get it all the time. I get asked questions at the gas station at red lights everywhere. When I went to a nice steakhouse they parked my car out front next to some very nice exotics, instead of shepherding it underground. It felt good. That’s all I am saying I feel like I’m driving a nicer car than what it is, and I am proud everywhere I go, that was not always the case before.
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