For a NA V6 take a listen to a GC 3.8 with a ARK exhaust.

Also the NA Lotus Evora sounds decent.

I agree :w00t:
Maybe it was low expectations on its sound, but I thought it was just as good as a stock 6th gen Si (MY06-11)

Now now, let's stay civilized.

But that was HILARIOUS.

I understand where you're coming from, but since you brought up the mentality of a car code in regard to Mustangs, I think it's worth bringing up the fact that for the past couple of years Toyota has sold around 250,000 Corollas every single year over the past few years in the US alone, while Ford has only sold around 60-70,000 Mustangs in the US each year.

Remember, being "different" for no other reason than to just be different is only so cool, and only gets us so far.

There will be fewer FR-S/BRZs on the road, and those of us whom chose to get one we will stand out from the crowd. But that doesn't mean that it was the best bang for the buck, the best deal out there.

There will be the crowd of BRZ owners who may pay close to (or over) $30k for their new ride. They will say it handles amazingly and it has a low CG - and it was made after the AE86 and 2000GT... but by Subaru... or something, but most importantly, they are different from everybody else. While the crowd of V6 Mustang and Genesis Coupe owners say "Hey, I paid $5k-$10k less than you guys did for your BRZ, got 100 more hp, I get better mpg, and my ride actually handles pretty darn good as well." But then the BRZ owner will say, "But everybody has a Mustang or a Genesis Coupe."

I'm not saying that the FR-S/BRZ will be inferior to any car on the road, but I am saying that the hype and speculation of this car is going to cause the price to soar - much more so [to me] than what it's actually worth. The FR-S/BRZ isn't made of any rare exotic materials that you can only get from the moon; it's still just a car. Therefore purchasing either a Mustang or Genesis Coupe is a reasonable alternative route (to me). At least I will be different from the crowd that has to own the FR-S/BRZ regardless of price, just because it's supposedly the new hot car to get.

:lol:that was funny, but you could have picked a better way to say that lol.

It is one of 6619 produced.

Sorry but it is a variant of a mass produced car Toyota sells in the hundreds of thousands.
Calling that purchase an epiphany might just be one of the most hyperbolic statements ever uttered on a car forum :rolleyes:
It is conventional and it is generic. Nothing wrong with that though.
Like a Mustang. It is a generic car found at rental car agencies, but that doesn't make any less of a car.

Maybe a little overstated but let's not forget that this forum and the car we are here for id paying tribute to a corolla. It is conventional just like the itr although not as hardcore

Certainly. Lineages are a wonderful thing and you can create a compelling story around it. But sometimes these bloodlines skip a generation or two or four ;-)

Much like someone might want to skip over the 2nd gen Mustang to maintain that compelling story, I think Toyota has created a branch in the family tree in the mid-80s to get us from the AE86 to here :-)

You would understand. Your Mazdaspeed Protege is one of 4500. The USDM sold numbers for a ITR is apparently 3823.

I don't see a GT500 or Boss 302 for every GT and V6 on the road, perhaps everyone else does:iono:.

thats the thing though, only under 7k of the XRS corolla were produced, thats a very limited run considering the base model has 30 million out there and the xrs is about 0.023% of corollas made, ive seen more supras, rx-7's, and GT-R's than ive seen xrs corollas from that gen of corollas, heck ive seen more model-t's driving in Florida, or AE86's here in texas and cali :/


ive seen 2 boss 302's and about 5 GT500's and maybe 8 5.0's in Dallas in the last 3 months, they aren't that rare... especially the v6's i see a LOT of those here...
ive seen 2 corolla xrs' one on the high way and one infront of a target, some family man with 2 kids and his wife left black marks through 1st and 2nd getting on the freeway, damn them turbo xrs' :D

Its one of over 40,000,000 produced, cool variant none the less.

Fair enough, we've both had our say.

Nothing to argue against. It's really up to the individual to chose as they please because both cars will provide ample driving entertainment, fuel economy etc... when asked to.