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Nearly every mass-produced car we come across today is governed, designed, regulated, or otherwise manipulated by a committee. As a result, nearly all of them stink. When Toyota and Subaru set out to design the FR-S in 2007, the first thing they did was throw out the committees. Finally, after hearing about this car for seemingly a decade, MotoIQ gets a chance behind the wheel on the track and on the road.

The sad truth is that cars affordable to Joe C. Average have either become boring transportation pods, overweight people movers, or gimmick-laden sporting poseurs. Take a tour at just about any new car dealership, and you will certainly see plenty of extremely well-engineered cars that proclaim awesomeness on the window sticker, but sitting in the driver's seat does not give you that same sense of satisfaction. The transportation pods may get you from point A to B with minimal fuss and reasonable economy, but they get you there by reducing your involvement with the machine beneath you to as minimal a level as possible. Infotainment systems and gimmicks distract you, overly intrusive stability control systems keep you from stepping out of line, and forgettable and lousy handling dynamics await you should you remember that secret computer handshake that defeats the anti-hoon software – secret handshakes that make those of us who are products of the 80s reminisce about the video game Contra. In short, ho-hum is pervasive throughout the average transportation pod. The sporting-poseurs can be more of an affront than the pods, as they merely imply that you can accomplish feats of supercar strength, but ultimately fall short when the time comes to deliver with overweight handling dynamics, recalcitrant interfaces, and other unwanted products of the spec-sheet age.

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