Getting questions and good comments
 

i love when people see my frs and talk to me about it and are wondering what it is and ask about it. its awesome. :happyanim:

Yes, but then I hit the inevitable "what kind of engine/whats the horsepower?" question and I'm all... backpedal, backpedal, backpedal.... "well, you see...."

:word:

I got asked at a drive through last night if i could rev it and if it had a turbo. I didn't rev it bought i considered burning the tires and trying to smoke the inside of the place lol.

Why? Pretty simple; "flat four, puts out 200 horsepower" elaborate as needed.

If you see the look of disappointment in their eyes you realize this isn't the kind of person you want to have an argument with, if they start asking about handling you've met someone who gets it.

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I get the same reaction " What kind of car is that?" Makes me sooooo happy!!!

i've gotten the 'nice car! what is it? is it fast?' a few times. when they got to the 'is it fast? question, i just said 'only in the turns' and smiled. they looked puzzled, and i explained that it was designed to be fast in the twisties, not in a straight line, where handling trumps horsepower. they seemed satisfied with that answer.

:thumbsup: So elegantly put!

I do like the fact that the shape of these cars make them looks fast. People just assume it's a fast car if they haven't seen one or heard of them before.

"Is it fast?"

"nah..."

lol, the other day at a car meet we had stopped for lunch and a family started asking about our cars(we had 3 frs' parked next to each other) and a couple of the frs owners spent a good 5-10 minutes talking to the family/showing them the engine/explaining who made the car and letting them sit inside.

I think there was further confusion because we all had different logos/badges. I have a black scion badge with the "scion" part filled in/sanded/painted, another frs owner had black toyota badges, and the 3rd car had silver scion badges.

"is it fast?"

"not at all" then walk away smiling.

I recently got my windows tinted and can't roll the windows down, and because my car is debadged aside from my Subaru badge and my STI badge (Looks good, maybe it's just me WISHING there was an STI.... Should probably take it off) and always ask me what it is. They think I'm a jerk because I can't roll the windows down to talk. I've been thinking about putting the badges back on so I can cut out about 50% of questions.

I'm just gonna say it has 500hp. If they don't know enough about the car to know it isn't fast, then they will have no clue that you are lying.

You actually placed an "STI" badge on your car?

Everyone is entitled to do whatever they like with their own cars and I mean absolutely NO disrespect to you or your car, but be aware that you will be the butt of a LOT of jokes from people who know there is no such thing as an STI BRZ. Its kinda like putting an EVOLUTION badge on a base-model Lancer. Or a Type-R badge on a base-model Integra.

Scott