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Originally Posted by tachi1247
Now to address your question, yes there is a difference. It's the reason that most people end up buying a sports car. They want performance. A truly good sports car has both great handling and good power. If I'm driving a corolla, I expect to have to make that downshift, if I'm driving a sports car I don't. It's all about expectations. In a time when an affordable 4 door family sedan can hit 60 in ~6 seconds expectations are higher for a sports car.
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First of all, a properly designed street going car does not have a lot of passing power in the highest gear. The whole point of a gearbox is so you can shift down to get more power, shift up when you don't need it. Exception would be supercars which have enough power to use more than 6 gears and so much displacement they can't be geared efficiently.
Second of all, a Camry V6 does 0-60 in 6.5 seconds, which the FRS/BRZ can possibly beat. An Accord Hybrid, the most powerful Accord, similarly does 6.5 seconds. Normal Accord V6s are 7 seconds or so. Aka, no Honda produced in the last several years besides the S2000 can outaccelerate this car, no Toyota produced recently (non-Lexus) can outaccelerate this car.
Third of all, I have seen maybe 2 Accord Hybrids ever, and while I do spot Camry V6s sometimes, on a typical day I don't see one.
A 3.5L engine is ludicrously big for a family car, it's pretty good already that this car is likely faster than said cars.