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Originally Posted by jsimon7777
I'm not especially strong-feeling either way because the cars are the same. In all the years I owned a BMW, I think the dual climate control knobs varied only when the settings got messed up. Manually closing vents seems to make my wife happier. I also hate digital HVAC controls. I want a god-damned knob.
The main reason I got an FR-S is that they had one in stock in 2013. If I had gotten a BRZ, it would have been the cheap version.
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To each their own I guess. Closing off the vent for my gf or myself wouldnt work out. Like you said, the car is tiny. So if the car is set to 68 degrees and her side's vent is closed, she'll feel cold pretty quick anyway since the cold air would fill the tiny cabin.
I like how the digital controls on the BRZ are. I'm used to dialing in a specific temperature since thats how my window AC at home works. And the physical dials have little bumps you feel every time you change the temp by a degree. It lets me adjust the temp up/down quickly and precisely without ever taking my eyes off the road. I do wish the bumps were more pronounced though.
Sadly not all digital HVAC controls are this nice... Drove a Chrysler 200 rental this past summer when I was on a business trip. That thing was terrible. The temperature was controlled by two buttons, up and down. The display for the temperature setting was simply a blue to red gradient bar, about one inch long and 1/4 inch thick on the top left corner of the screen in the center console. No idea wtf temperature it was, and had to keep taking my eyes off the road to adjust it. The only way to set an actual temperature was to dive into the menu, no way I was gonna do that while driving.
But yea, those are just my reasons anyway. Not trying to convince you. Mainly trying to give the OP my point of view at most.