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Yeah, definitely in full agreement about the engine. It just doesn't *sound* exciting at all. Very coarse and very, well, you said it: appliance-like. After I drove one, I felt like all that "passion" that Toyota talked on and on about shone through in the chassis and suspension tuning, but that they got done designing the chassis and dialed in the suspension and then went "Crap. We forgot to put an engine in this thing... Erm.. uh... let's just throw this thing in here..." (Obviously I know better in terms of what really happened).
Coming from an S2000 (and the C30A in my NSX before it... best... V6... ever), the FA20 is a bit of a disappointment, but I think the rest of the car is good enough to make up for the engine's shortcomings; both power wise and refinement wise.
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