Admittedly, I have not put much attention into maintaining the exterior of the car because it sits 100% of the time outdoors under no protection. But, I recently was able to secure a garage, so I had motivation to finally pay attention to the car. I visited Bob at Auto Concierge, arguably one of, if not the, best paint correction specialists in NorCal, and he was blown away at how damaged, inconsistent, and thin the paint was. He said the correction would be so expensive, I was better off investing in a respray. It made no difference to me since I have some ideas for custom body work I wanted done anyway.

That was true with '85 MR2, it was basically pink after 5 years on the Florida sun. That's not as true any longer in my experience.

The color isn't the issue, it's the road rash and pitting. The aforementioned Mustang is red and looks nearly as good as it did when we bought it. The 86 looks good from 20 ft, but if you get up close you can see every place there was a piece of sand that hit it. They both have spent about equal times on the road and the Mustang has spent twice as long in the weather.

They are cared for in about the same manner.

I've noticed this on other colors of the car as well, if it has any level of miles on it.

2013-2016 still looks great, i like the line of the car, but i am not a fan of 2017...
I will drive this car until it dies, unless they make a STI version.

Hell, the way things are going it may be illegal for a human to drive a car 10 years from now except on private property. I wouldn't imagine there would be much value to any older vehicle at that point except in a museum. Excuse me now while I go fix some Soylent Green.

The car will hold up pretty well probably. Some colors will fade more than others but that's about what you would expect to see happen.

In terms of visual design I think the car will hold up well too. The next generation of honda kids will love this car lol. Some things that will not hold up so well will be the no push button start and the interior buttons and stuff stock are already quite dated as is (excluding the limited series cars obviously)

Then there is the fact that MT is on its way out, in 10 years I doubt they will even be making MT cars sadly. The AT being a 6 speed will really hurt it too as most AT's in the future will be like 8+ speeds and this cars transmissions will seem ancient.

The car won't be as iconic as the AE86 or anything but in terms of looks I can't see it ever being seen as not a sexy looking car, even 10 years from now.

Screw automated cars I will never trust them give me my analog driving freedom.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Expect that Tesla incident so are we gonna trust our lives on autopilot.

10 yrs from now I'll be driving a bicycle if gas goes up 500%

It would be lucky if my BRZ would last 10 years as it's my only car, but it is garage kept and rarely winter driven.

Modern cars like these are realistically only designed to last 160,000km / 7 years of normal usage.

I'll just enjoy it as much as I can while it's still in its prime. :burnrubber:

I think one of the more recent sports cars that aged well is the S2000.

I do not think Frs will be something like s2000 in the future.
But rather 240sx or older Porsche.

I remember people use to complain about how new cars are getting boring, heavy and not raw. And we still hear that today.

10years from now, I will bet that people will still say the samething.
And Frs will be that older "raw" car you can track or drift cheap.
With all the aftermarket being so huge, it will be the new civic. (Feels like new older civic already).

one thing I hated about older mr2 or civics I owned was the cracked dashboard, ac, and interior just fucking up over the time.
I think Frs interior will hold up better, and looks nice too.

10year from now you will hear some kid talking about their riced out Frs and you will look back to today.

More like modern American made cars.My aunt is still driving her '96 Camry with about 300k mile on it.

Yea I hope it can hit that high but it's a Subaru.

When I took driving lessons the instructor had a '91 Corolla and it was already at 500,000km and ran like a champ.

Check out the Subaru high mileage club; you might be surprised. If you treat it right and maintain it properly, it'll last for decades.