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Originally Posted by perryair
now, if you are a regular at your local track or you spend a lot of time at the test and tune at your dragstrip this doesnt apply to you. and if you are a young carefree kid who doesn't have a career, wife or family yet i suppose this also doesn't apply to you.
but as an full fledged adult with adult things to do and family members to tend to and without time to oh, say, spend the day in jail on a reckless driving charge i can't possibly imagine how someone gets to the point where they think that the brz/frs is slow.
i've test driven both an FRS and BRZ and got to above legal speeds quite fast with both of them, thankyouverymuch. They feel just as fast/quick as my old 1995 mustang GT, which had 225 horsepower back then but probably carried an extra 500 lbs. (it also has just about the same quarter mile time and trap speed, as an aside) i managed to quickly get in front of traffic and do some things that probably were outside of the bounds of legal pretty easily.
in fact, id never call it fast but my current 100 and change horsepower honda civic has only made me feel uncomfortably slow in three merge into traffic situations over the span of five years of ownership.
so sure, a v6 camry has more horsepower! but try to use that extra horsepower in any meaningful way on a public road and odds are mister john q law will have something to say to you. not to mention that i doubt that more than a few percent of the driving populace has the driving skills necessary to even use half of the horsepower that any of their cars might have in the first place.
anyways, rant over..
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first i want to say that threads like these make me laugh.
nobody in their right mind has time for this. ^
good rant, i understand where your coming from, it has plenty of power for daily driving and even for canyon runs. who needs 400whp on the street anyways? woo i can go 0 to the speed limit faster than you but i bet i get another exhibition of speed ticket if doing so. (such a bullshit ticket btw, especially if i dont spin the tires) this car has many bolt on options to add power for those who crave the power and have the time and money to upgrade. i only plan to keep my car for 2-3 years then upgrade to the next new toy so i dont particularly need moar power from the twins.
now for all you who are comparing mustangs to twins your not even comparing the same style of car. its like apples and cucumbers.
one was made for drag strips and straight lines more so than the twisty back roads that the twins are amazingly fun to drive through. every car is made for different purposes and the twins, imo, have a decent amount of power for a daily driver and have plenty of hidden talents for the exciting weekend drives.