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Originally Posted by l0aded
After seeing the non-renderings online from the NY auto show, I'd vote for the new 86.
I have a feeling most people feel the same way but the owner bias is too strong.
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No doubt the owner bias plays a big part in some. I do know that if I was going to buy a car today and had never seen an FRS before I would take one look at whole front end and keep right on walking. the whole thing just does not fit the rest of the body shape and even if it improved the aero by 50% my sense of aesthetics would not let me buy the car. Now no doubt it looks better in real life then the angles of the pictures make it appear but that does not change the fact (for me) that it is way more aggressive then the car warrants and make the car pretend to be something it isn't. It takes the pretend sports car theme to a whole new level appearance wise and functional or not I do not like it.
Now where my buyer bias kicks in - I bought the FRS as a simple DD coupe and had no delusions of racecar and the current flowing lines and interaction of the body panels of the car kept it to a beautiful design that did not scream "I am going to eat all the other cars on the road". Now it puts on a face that it's performance just can not live up to and to ME it makes it a pretender.
Having said that I have little doubt that people buying this will say the FRS was way to plain for them.