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As an RSX owner, I'll say this:
The FR-S is going to be my next car. It is everything I wish the RSX could be.
In stock form, the RSX only lacked 2 things for me really, a LSD, and RWD. There are some other nice-to-haves like HID headlights, Nav, bluetooth, ipod/mp3 player integration as well, but only the first 2 really mattered.
I modded the suspension extensively with high-end coilovers, sways, bushings, and some geometry adjusting bits, added intake-header-exhaust and reflash, and dropped in a LSD.
The car is great set up like this, well sorted for both auto-X and the racetrack depending on my rear sway setting, basically almost perfect. It rotates on demand on corner entry, and you can spend a 30 minute HPDE session with the revs between 5000-8600 in VTEC and the engine never misses a beat.
I still find myself craving a RWD vehicle. FWD you deal with wheelhop. You are fighting physics. You can't throttle yourself out of understeer. And all that stuff I added was on top of my purchase price, not to mention the sets of tires and brake pads that have turned to dust treating the car like it wants to be treated.
The FR-S has all my the RSX had, plus almost every mod it needed. It only needs said tires and brake pads, probably on a set of 17x8 WRX wheels, to be ready to go. Add an intake (just for the noise) and some tuning so you power doesn't tail off in those higher revs and this car will be absolutely perfect. I'll be damned if I'm not trying to rig a brake ducting system to a brand new car within a month of getting one of these.
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