I am.

great! :thumbup:

I know what you mean about the rear wheels looking recessed. It looks so measly and tucked in.

I plan on doing very simple cosmetic mods, and of course drop and rims in the first year. After my warranty is up and spare cash laying around Im going to have some real fun.

Glad to see another Bay Area BRZ owner, make sure to hit up the NorCal thread :thumbsup:

I just plasti dipped the wheels black, besides that it's all stock. I've had mine for over a year. Everyone says I need an exhaust, I like a deep sound, but I think it would sound too fake with one. Not to mention it's expensive. Anyway I love my Subby just the way she is, I don't have any plans to modify anything else.

Mines pretty clean looking just had to fix the ugly/iritating parts with better

All of my past cars have remained stock. Though I'm still a few months out from buying one of the 14's, I have a few simple things planned: OEM armrest, Toms Tail lights, OEM Audio upgrade, with new rims and tyres eventually as well.

I personally prefer a more subtle look to the car in terms of upgrades.

For the life of me I cannot understand why they did not go with clear side markers vs the amber ones. The clear ones really make a difference IMHO.

I believe they had to go with amber for legal reasons.

The only thing I didn't like about the stock setup was the wimpy looking exhaust tips on the North American version (Does Canada get the same tips that the States get?), the not so empowered exhaust noise, and the sound tube. So the mods I've done to remedy those are catback exhaust + front pipe and inlet hose to delete the sound tube. I also replaced the engine air filter with a foam filter just because.

Everything else is stock (including wheels). I'm completely satisfied with the car now, so I do not plan to do any other mods unless something needs to be replaced (such as doing coilovers when the struts need replacing).

So my dad has had 3 generations of Supras (including MkIV TT), '69 Mustang, '88 Firebird... never ever modded anything on any of them. Now he has a WRB BRZ Limited (like me) and never intended to mod it... but I keep pushing things on him. He's got the GrimmSpeed license plate relocator kit, gave him my JDM exhaust tips, and bought FR-S dash panels and Carsmo armrest for him. He likes all of it. Now he wants Tom's lights like I have. His car still looks mostly stock just with little touches that enhance.

I kept my MR-S visually stock and, after I sold that, my last 3 sports cars that followed (MR2, MR2 Turbo, and G35) were completely stock (sold off any aftermarket parts already on them and bought stock parts to restore to stock). There's something nice about "preserving" older sports cars by keeping them completely stock while everyone else's are modded out. And when the BRZ came out, I tried to keep the same mindset. But the ride height bugged me. The engineers intended for it to be lower for truer sports car handling. The suspension geometry is ideal at 20 +/-5mm lower than stock height according to a PM exchange I had with Chief Engineer Tetsuya Tada. But to clear dips/curbs/parking stops and be public road-friendly, they lifted it to monster truck stratification. :bellyroll: Also, everyone else's BRZ was stock when I got mine and I don't like being like everyone else. Parts available for this car were too sublime to ignore. With the BRZ, it can't be helped. It's meant to be tinkered with, with "hooks" in place from the factory for modding. So I'm having at it, the way it was intended. Kept all my stock parts in case I want to be "different" and revert to stock when every BRZ I see is modded out later on. :)

"Stock" is such a relative term. I've spent my money trying to make my interior more JDM, closer to the GT-86. "Stock" to me means that one doesn't know any better about what can be improved upon.

I was quick to remove the orange side markers since the car looks much cleaner without them. JDM comes with underbody aero panels. Also, if you got a lower trim model, having stock parts from an upper trim can be highly rewarding.

I guess it just depends on what you're going for. Most people want the car to be unique to them. I want my car to essentially be more show than go, but I would like it to be a capable autox car, which is why I'm even bothering with suspension bits.

My body fat absorbs most of the extra NVH from making the car stiffer anyways. :lol:

It also means that one does know that improving something usually comes at the expense of screwing up something else.

Improving something is fine, if it preserves the rest. Out of all those who try to 'improve' the car, only a small percentage will succeed. The rest will "improve" something and screw up something else, for example handing (crappy lowering hardware, bad damping, crazy understeer-inducing spacers etc). Properly "improving", while preserving the rest is expensive.

P.S.: don't care about "unique", I'm not a teen/tween any more, and not having a mid-life crisis either (yet?).