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Originally Posted by Ganthrithor

FWIW I was driving both cars for a couple of months, and once you get used to the BRZ hopping into the GTI feels like you're driving a bus-- the wheel feels huge, the rack feels slow and strangely light, the seating position feels high and a bit wrong, the gear shift isn't where it ~*should*~ be, and the whole package feels heavy. My modded GTI felt like a fast hatch but you could still feel that it was a Golf trying hard to compete with proper sportscars (and doing a pretty good job in terms of raw numbers, but not that gracefully): my modded BRZ feels like a babby M-car-- less power, less weight, less grip (on stockers anyway), but it handles in the same way as much more serious cars.

This sounds exactly like my experience if you swap out GTI for WRX.