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Originally Posted by 70NYD
omg u ppl need to get ur panties out of a bunch. i was stating my opinion. anyone in marketing can take a car and call it a sports car.. i know the MR-S has awesome handling, better than a whole heap of more powerful cars, but from factory it did not come with a powerful engine (1.8L 100KW r u kidding me...) if it came with a 2zz engine stock it would have been a different story in my books. and you cannot have a sports car with a piss weak engine. again this is my opinion, but state another "sports" car from the same era that had a engine that was that weak from factory... (even some motorbikes are more powerfull..)
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It's strange, but I heard they chose the 1zzfe instead of the 2zzge to, oddly enough, enhance the driving experience. Had to do with power delivery. Something like the old saying that people buy horsepower but drive torque. I don't know how I feel about that and it pertaining to the FR-S. But this new car is likely the FR incarnation of that one.
As for offering an exceptional handling sports car with a feeble (but easily swappable and upgradeable) powertrain is no bad thing in my book. Just leaves a little room for the hardcore. (Why pay for an expensive, mediocre engine that's just going to get yanked out anyways?)