My Firestorm arrived today, but the radio didn't
 

So I picked up my car today around noon at Spartan Toyota in Lansing Michigan. Service was great, got a great interest rate and payed MSRP. Oddly enough, the radio didn't arrive with the car, so I took delivery with no radio. This is ok because I had planned on putting a touchscreen system in as my first mod tomorrow, but I have no tunes until then. Also, I asked if they would discount the car by the price of the stock system but they said they couldn't. I will be getting the stock stereo as soon as it arrives.

My initial driving impressions would just be a rehash of what everybody else is saying, although on a negative note, I do find the clutch pedal to be way too light. Everything else is awesome (except for the tires).

It has been raining all day, so I will take more pictures when I can.

http://i.imgur.com/cAna1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Jqljy.jpg

That's pretty random (and I guess less work for you)...are items like the Bespoke stereo port or dealer installed?

Either way...Congrats!

I'd like to see an aftermarket install. The forums noted that Scion tends to use an oversized faceplate similar to Subaru.

I believe somebody else on these forums used the dash kit from the scion tc and it worked ok. I plan on doing the same, at least until the official FR-S dash kit comes out.

Well, you did buy it from a place called Spartan. :D

Congrats on the car!

rofl! grats, too bad no discount!

Look at the bright side... weight reduction!

Is this FT86 red different from the BRZ red?
Or is it lightning?

I feel this red is darkish compared to the BRZ. I love this Colour!

They probably yanked it out to satisfy another customer with a broken unit.

Please keep us informed about your experiences with installing the aftermarket unit, very interesting!

Looks great! Weird about the radio, but it's not too bad

Same red.

I'm leaning more and more towards red, from my original pick of grey or white.

The red really shows those wheel arch gaps though ... can't believe Toyota screwed that up again, all of their sports cars are the same. To drop it enough to get the gap looking nice we'll be scraping skirts all over the place.

Anyway rant over and epic grats. :)

this is what you should go with for your next headunit.

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Something smells very fishy about this. I'm thinking someone must have stolen it already before delivery? There's no way it gets through QA without a radio.

Did they give you an explanation?

Mine was delivered (on Tuesday) also without the radio. But, no problem, because the radio arrived just two days later (yesterday) and was installed in about ten minutes.

I don't think there's anything fishy going on. My salesman said Scions often come in without the radio, because then the customer can choose which one he wants at the time of sale. It's just that the FR-S is so new, and has its own radio, that the FR-S radios weren't yet in dealer stock at time of these early deliveries.

I actually appreciated the opportunity to "learn" the car without the distraction of the radio for a couple days -- and hey, the engine makes some really good music!

When I stopped in for the radio install yesterday, the dealer had a dark gray FR-S on the lot that was due to be delivered, and it too did not have a radio in the dash.

So this might not be uncommon for the early FR-S deliveries.


Dave