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Originally Posted by brusk
Like plenty of other people that stop here I'm in the market for a lighter sporty car. One of my first cars when I was younger was an original AE86 Corolla so when they announced this platform coming I've had my eye on it since, unfortunately the subaru engine part never excited me. IMO it should have had a 2ZZ or something that behaved like that, some excitement. I've had several fast cars, last one was a tuned 135i with all M3 suspension pieces. I loved the car but it went around turns with such ease I was just along for the ride and couldn't give it any gas with a car of that much torque.
I drove a TRD GT86 the other day but the sales guy came and killed most of the fun as he was about 400 lb. It was a nice driving car, minus the torque dip that really sucks but I really didn't get the feel of it was anything special it was just solid and never put that smile on my face I was hoping for. Ideally I'd be looking at a used 17 BRZ with the PP add a header, tune, flywheel and bushings to try to get the engine to feel like it should.
Or I can pick up a dirt cheap RX8 in nice shape, swap the rotary for a 320HP Camaro LFX V6 and have a balanced car with medium torque and decent HP. But I keep hearing stories of how fun it is to blast downt he back roads in a supercharged go kart like R53 MCS. This reminds me of the days of my MR2 and CRX cars that were little POS but were a blast to actually drive.
Any other suggestions that I might not have thought of would also be helpfull. So far looked at an ND Miata and was too small, S2000 wasn't very confortable. I'm a hair over 6' at about 200lb. The thought of just going an getting an 09 Cayman S and a warranty has also crossed my mind but I'm really trying to stay away from german junk (still bad taste from the alst mercedes I lost $$$ on)
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I'd get the Cayman/Boxster S tbh, or Mustang.. Camaro. It already sounds like you'd be willing to spend the extra money on other cars in the form of adding power, so why not get a car that has the power stock, just requires some maintenance $$. You're also not focused on handling
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