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Originally Posted by BRZ_Lawyer
I can't agree with you more. The Chris Harris review got me too
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It took about 5 months, though. I bought the STI in April and started having doubts about it in May. Saw the Chris Harris videos in late June/ early July. Took my first test drive in a BRZ in mid July. After much drooling at 86's, and wincing every time I had to fill up the STI ( < 260 miles range with normal driving on a 16 gallon tank and filling up at least 14-15 gallons each fill-up just
hurts... badly. I don't care how fast the car is), I started looking at a potential RWD successor to the STI. I had on my list: BRZ/FR-S, Miata, 350Z. It's now early November.
I wasn't able to test drive a Miata, b/c there were NO used (wasn't willing to buy new... they were going for around $30k new) manual Miatas available for sale in AZ... at all. But the 350Z was underwhelming, actually.
I took a nice long test drive in a series 10 FR-S and had a ball. Then test drove a BRZ to see if I could detect a difference (unfortunately rush hour hit about that time and the Subaru dealership didn't want me to take it too far). I couldn't, but I ended up taking that BRZ home the next day.
It really was an agonizing decision considering that the STI was what I'd thought my dream car was, and I'd had it only 7 months. But even with being upside down in the trade, my monthlies are still less than they were for the STI, insurance is less, and gas is a helluva lot less, even though I'm sucking fumes by 300 miles (that 13.2 gal tank really is tiny). I love it!