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Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses
As with the above poster, it's about price for me. At a rumored $24K MSRP for the BRZ Premium including HIDs and navigation, that's a bit more than I'd like to pay. I don't like in-dash nav units, especially in this era of smartphones and Tom-Toms/Garmins. The deal killer for me is HIDs. If the FR-S doesn't come with them then I'm not buying it. In this day and age every car should have HIDs. The optics on my 11 year old WRX suck and if I'm buying a new car it needs to have HIDs.
Personally, the looks between the two are a wash for me, other than the headlights. I can with confidence say the headlights of the BRZ look much cleaner than the lights of the FR-S. The difference in the nose between the two is negligible, though I somewhat prefer the FR-S due the BRZ's black plastic mustache. That said, WRB is one of my favorite colors... I wouldn't mind a WRB BRZ Premium.
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HIDs are great, but most modern projectors even in halogen form throw tons of light out there.
My wife has a '10 Mazda3 and it has some of the best night vision I've seen from a halogen bulb. It shits all over anything with reflector-based optics I've ever driven, including EO HID reflectors in the older acura TLs. It's not too far from the light output of my B5 a4 with OEM HID E-code lights either.
just hving projectors in general is a plus over anything relfector-based. Plus I'm sure TRS will come up with a OE-HID projector swap for the Halogen projector cars within a year of release. They do for the new WRXs and Mazda3s, so these shouldn't be far behind once they're released.