i got the limited because

heated seats.
i wanted push button start.
fog lights
alcantara seats

I went with the premium because I didn't like the limited seats and it was slightly out of my price range.
I did the black Interior on my premium. Cost under $100 because half of my bits were already black :)

Off subaru website


Anti-theft security system
Also Standard on: Limited

Engine immobilizer
Also Standard on: Limited


I was just going off whatever this meant. I just see Lo Jack posted on all brz limited that I have seen...

The seat bottom is not an issue...it's the driver's back. I've always been a thin person...feel sorry for the more insulated folks... would be good not to assume a person's physical size versus what is perceived from several who have commented about the Alcantara backing.

BTW, when folks say leather...does the Limited have real leather or is this synthetic... doesn't feel like the same leather I had with my Z4M. Feels worse quality.

Premium seat materials are great but for the amount I drive it is my opinion that the best material is the cloth the comes in the premium. I think I have vacuum my seats once in the more than 1 year I have had the car. I don't even shampoo my hair, fuk shampooing my seats :D

Nice. I honestly had no idea, despite a fair amount of research into the black interior conversion (I've done it, came in around $200). Man, it's like the Limited cost me $100 more than first thought.

I bought the Limited for one reason and one reason only - heated seats (North East here). Everything else came as a bonus. With that said though, I am getting to like so much the keyless entry and engine start feature that already wonder how I ever lived without it. And I've had the car for just over two weeks only. Here is the main thing with the Limited that makes your life easier every day, many times per day - the keyless entry.

You need not click your door open, just reach for it and the car opens it instantly as long as the key is with you (in pocket, bag, doesn't matter where). The car has half a dozen sensors and always knows whether the key is inside or outside the car, whether it is next to the left door, to the right or by the trunk. It will not allow you to lock the doors from the outside if the key is inside. You don't need to take the key out of your pocket to open the doors or the trunk - just reach for the door handles or push the trunk button while having the key somewhere on you and it opens immediately. This is just awesome, trust me. Then the car locking - with the key somewhere with you, just touch with your hand (even worked while I had leather gloves on) either of the door handles, left or right it doesn't matter, and car locks both doors.

Fog lights are also cool feature, though they can only be turned on when the headlights are on. And the seats are great too, just to look at them, no question. My car also came loaded with the diffuser and the compass mirror (dealer had them already installed) for which I don't particularly care (though the diffuser is supposed be beneficial), both for the obscene amount of money ($900) but I bought the car for two reasons - it is Galaxy blue the color I wanted and the dealer knocked off 3K from the price (yeah baby, 2013 model clearance). So my more than fully loaded Limited cost me 26,440, and that is FRS price.

Anyhow, I think the Limited's features are well worth it with the keyless entry leading the way, such a convenience. One more thing - it is so smart, when two people are approaching the car from both sides it only opens the door that the person carrying the key reaches for. Well executed, very effective and never fails to impress others, it is worth it.

Villy

I preordered mine so i got to chose what I wanted. I went with the premium mostly because the only thing I really wanted was HIDs (on both) and fog lights (added as an option)...the push to start is fun but I didn't really need/want it for me. So the price difference was about...1.6K because of the fog lights.

Also, some of the things I just didn't want to pay for if I knew I wanted to replace it. Like, I really don't care for the stock spoiler... and we were thinking of replacing the seats later anyway so I didn't really want to pay for them (although we could probably sell them when we replaced them...).

I don't think the weight differences is significant between the two...

I would say the limiteds are definately more popular...If i see a BRZ out it is almost always a limited.

I like how dome lights up for me as I walk up to her in the dark. That is cool.

Yes, that is another nifty feature of the keyless entry - as you walk by the car with the key on you, the car lights up the dome light inside as to tell you 'here I am', and turns it off once you walk 5-10 ft away.

Yeah that's not LoJack -- that's just an alarm

That isn't even turned on for you by the dealer. Make you you check that it's on. I had to turn mine on

Suppose thats what I get for assuming it was on by default. :bs:

Premium vs. Limited?
 

The Subaru website says it's Alcantara/leather trimmed. All this means is that some part of the seats is leather. In my last car, the part you directly sat on was leather, and the sides and back were vinyl, as well as the entire back seat. Also keep in mind that "leather" could be anything from bonded leather (bits of leftover leather glued together, this is what most sofas and belts are) to full grain leather, which is the stuff that your kids will be fighting over when you die because it lasts forever and only looks better as it develops a patina with age*.

If I had to guess, the leather-looking parts of the front seats are probably "genuine leather**," but the back of the front seats is probably vinyl. I'd guess the back seats are completely Alcantara/Vinyl.

*If you've ever had a belt that warps and does not maintain its shape, it is not full grain leather. If you've ever had a wallet or a sofa where the "leather" chips off, it's bonded leather.

** Genuine leather is a grade of leather. It is mid-low tier on the leather scale in terms of quality, but better than bonded leather.