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Originally Posted by BuzzR
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.
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Sorry, didn't think we were being particularly nasty. No offense intended. There is such a broad range of prices between a base V6 and loaded GT, and same goes for base FRS and loaded BRZ, that you can't really make a valid comparison without being more specific. I mean I could tell you there's an 8k difference between the FRS and BRZ based on my shopping experience and not be lying about it. Generally, the 3 are very comparable in price, but you are right it is possible to find a 10k difference if you are looking at a GT.