[Takumi788]

Fellow Syracuse NY owner here. My FRS is a over prepped HPDE car but I do street drive it occasionally. I don't take it off the road but I do store it at my shop from the last track event in early November until the salt is gone. (Could be January or May....never know.)

I have worked on other twins that have been winter driven and the body may look great but the salt takes a toll quickly on the sub-frame, brakes and hardware. I have already run into broken skid plate bolts, rusty subframes, rusty exhaust and other PITA parts because of corrosion. It's widely known in CNY that if you want to keep a car nice, you don't drive it in the winter.

IMHO, between the 120" annual snowfall and 120" of annual salt accumulation, it isn't worth spending big bucks on a nice daily driver in Syracuse. If you must spend 30k on a daily it makes a lot more sense to spend it on a more practical AWD car. That is why there are so few BRZ/FRS owners in CNY and a ridiculous amount of WRX owners.

I am not saying its wrong to drive a twin in the winter bc it would be a riot! When they get cheap enough I just may buy another one as a daily....and maybe get that rally lift kit. lol