Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses (Post 321721)

Waste of money. Get snow tires. TRUST me. The difference is PHENOMENAL. I ran all-seasons in my 2002 WRX from August 2001 until March 2009 when I made the switch to dedicated seasonal tires. I'll never go back to any all-season tire on any car I own.

I throw my sets on around late November/early December and take them off mid-late March. You can put 'em on later and take 'em off earlier, it just depends on the winter. This past winter, I probably could have waited until mid-late December and taken them off in late February. In any case, they don't see a lot of wear.

Originally Posted by dsgerbc (Post 321326)

I have both. 08 w/56k. At the moment my spec.b is listed for sale, cause I've almost stopped driving it. I do take it out once a week just to make sure it's not neglected completely. It feels totally alien driving it after the BRZ.

Do not bother modifying the spec, it's a band-aid. I had pretty extensive suspension mods and used most of the regular tricks to make it turn and it never handled anywhere close to BRZ out of the box.

I'm fat, ~6ft tall, and I fit perfectly fine in a BRZ. The longest I've driven it non-stop is probably ~1-1.5hr, and I have zero comfort issues. I'm gonna drive it to Chicago (from Detroit metro) next month, I can report back if you like. If you need a strong lumbar support to be comfortable - you'll need to modify OEM seats/add something.

If your 3-4 hours per day are mostly highway - frequent need to make small corrections might get annoying, then again stock spec.b isn't too good in this department either. On the plus side, it does not get blown off the highway by the wind/oncoming semis on 2-lane roads, like 4th gen Legacys do.

I do miss the perforation in the Alcantara in the spec.

Originally Posted by warman (Post 331958)

How's the navigation in the BRZ compared to the SpecB? I've seen complaints about it but it's hard to imagine it being worse than the SpecB's navigation.