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Originally Posted by MikeM7
It's probably because you are making a claim that is just plain not true. Your story simply doesn't add up. You are leaving something out. FRS, BRZ, and Mustang that's "not special" are in the same price range. It's common knowledge to all of us that have shopped around for sports cars.
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You think I don't know that? You think I would say something like that here unless I was merely repeating what happened with me? I know many of you are far more knowledgeable with cars than I.
My BRZ was quoted to me at 25Gs, so I went and looked at a Mustang fastback (I owned a '65 many moons ago) just to see what they were going for. I was told by a salesman that it would go for "about 35."
It was a V8, but my original comment was: "Can it beat a six or eight cylinder Mustang (or whatever) in a straight line? Of course not - but then those cars are generally 10Gs+ more expensive."
So I'm only speaking from personal experience. Maybe it had a sauna in the trunk or something, I don't know. When I heard that price I didn't look at it too closely anymore, and the salesman didn't say it had anything special like supercharging, etc. I would think he would have, to try to impress me, if it had had it.
I looked at the examples on the link the other guy sent, and the lowest V8 I saw was about $32,300 (probably stripped.) So that alone is $7,300 more than what I paid for the BRZ. And maybe the one I looked at had more bells on it, I don't know. Once I heard the price I knew I wasn't going that high, so I left.
So that's it. Believe it or don't. But I don't think the nasty comments were warranted.