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Originally Posted by raven1231
FRS 4 EVER!!! THE BESTEST CAR IN THE WORLD!
Jesus fucking Christ...The Miata beat the frs around the track get over it. Yes our tires suck but they are what comes on the stock FRS/BRZ...So comparing them with anything else would be even more misleading. The Miata is newer and better by a slight margin, it's not Mazda's fault the "higher" end twins outside of Japan offer absolutely zero performance improvements.
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That's just the point. The BRZ tested was essentially stock (from a performance standpoint) and the Miata tested was not (not even close). Since both cars are $26k in their stock forms, why not test both that way? Probably because it would reflect negatively on the Miata.
The problem isn't so much that MT did this. The problem is that people buy into it.
Chances are (strongly) that the stock Miata which matches the stock BRZ in price is not "better by a slight margin", but actually slower by a slight margin. No objective person is going to buy the argument that adding mods like an LSD, uprated wheels, tires, aero, Bilstein shocks, a Brembo BBK don't make the Miata lap faster, handle and feel better. If a faster lap time is what some are using to determine "better" then they're being deceived, and maybe willfully so.