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Originally Posted by GrantedTaken
Your throwback mindset in on the right track in understanding why this is one of the best cars produced in the last 30 years.
Stop looking at 0-60 times. Those people have no clue what this car is about.
In the curves, the BRZ is probably the fastest production car on the market today.
The only thing better is a Lotus Elise
No other moderm production car can take turns at the speed of a BRZ that weighs 2700 lbs.
They will fly into a ditch.
There is no escaping physics in terms of how fast this car can corner.
Momentum = mass • velocity
The BRZ is very very fast, if you know how to drive a momentum car.
The only performance upgrade you need are summer tires.
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This is a good point, was looking at the Challengers specs they can weigh up to 4400 lbs that's a full size minivan or 3-row AWD SUV. It's probably a lot easier to make 500hp engine than it is to make a 2800 lb car that does well on crash tests and whatnot. It's not like 30 years ago, now BRZ needs 7 airbags and whatnot crash standards are much tighter than 20-30 years ago when early M3 or S2000 were made.
I still marvel at the MX5 which is so much less weight than the BRZ but when I drove both the other day, it was also evident that the MX5 was like me trying to wear size 10 shoes (when I wear size 12). I did fit into the MX5 but it's so obviously smaller inside that they're almost not comparable.