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Originally Posted by ~el~jefe~
I am curious if there are other people out there on forums that this is their absolute only vehicle they will own and use.
I am awaiting mine after ordering, and curious about peoples' experiences having this car as their only ride.
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Not reading any other responses, I'll talk about mine although I suspect they will echo others.
My BRZ is my only car, year round daily driver, track and autocross car. Lightly modified with coilovers, wheels and tires and front BBK and that's about it.
Overall, it's perfectly acceptable as a daily driver assuming you're a reasonably sized human and don't need to put people in the back seats regularly. Contrary to popular belief, the back seats are usable provided everyone is under 6ft but don't expect anyone to be comfortable.
Trunk space is small compared to a sedan but it's actually pretty good for a car of these dimensions. It's perfectly fine for grocery shopping and regular errands and even many odd things can be made to fit with the rear seats folded down although there are limits. For example, I managed to fit my 42 inch flat screen TV in the back of my car when I was moving although it was very tight so a larger TV wouldn't fit.
The car has very little sound deadening and so it picks up a lot of road noise. You may want to run a quieter tire if you are going to be driving a lot. Louder tires will wear on you after a while, especially on longer trips.
Finally, winter driving. This only applies to people who live where it snows and being in Canada, I get plenty of the stuff. Being a RWD coupe with front biased weight balance, winter tires are STRONGLY encouraged if you're going to be driving it in the winter. I'd go so far to as say not to bother winter driving this if you aren't going to put winter tires on it. Last winter, I was on OEM suspension but 8 year old winter tires that were cracking and sketchy as hell but I got around OK and never got stuck. This year, I'm lowered 1 inch on coilovers and using newer winter tires and it's not nearly as bad although deeper snow makes me more nervous than it did last year. That said, this year has actually been extremely mild with regular highs of 3c/37f during the day so this winter hasn't been bad with only 1 snow storm that was bad enough to make me nervous to drive through it but it was fine.