I test drove a brand new 2013 frs that was at a lot down the street from me to see if it would give me the motivation to go into financial turmoil just to own it and I must say.. It was not actually that fun. I knew more about the car than the sales person and the entire drive was full of "oh's" and "Hmmm i didnt know that". I also didnt get to test out any of the cars potential but alas I knew I wanted a new car. After that I found a used 2013 that was about 300 miles away and decided to go for it. Negotiated the price over the phone. Had my bank cut me a check. I convinced my poor mother to drive me all the way over there to buy it (she hates road trips lol). When I got there I asked to go for a test drive and the sales guy was like "go nuts!" threw me the keys and I proceeded to finally stretch out the legs the best I could on the freeway there and tried to fly around a few corners (my mother was not pleased..). It was satisfactory at the time. By the time I was done there I wasnt even happy with my purchase.. It wasnt until the next day (we stayed at a hotel and then drove home) that I starting realizing what I had done.. We took an odd route home that led through some nice twisty back roads and zomg.. My poor mother was getting irritated because I would lose her at every corner because it was irresistibly fun. That whole ride home is what convinced me that I made the right decision
At the end of the day, the things I looked for were
1. Previous body damage (the underside of the front bumper of my car was all scraped up from the stupid previous owner not realizing how low the car is)
2. Good service history (I really shouldnt have bought my car since the sales guy couldnt tell me anything about it.. It had a clean carfax with only 16K miles so I figured hell what would go wrong.. lol)
3. I am actually out of things to check for.. I feel like this is one of those cars that once you experience it you have to buy it. Unless you're a wierdo or a horsepower nut.
Anyways I would just try to have fun with the car on the test drive and try to find some fun places to test it out in. Also if you find you dont like the clutch pedal have no fear! it is fixable lol If you find it to be to light with no feedback there is a helper spring that can be removed to make to behave more like a normal clutch.