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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise
I feel like this topic has been hashed to death. No doubt the Twins are "slow" cars stock, but there are plenty of other slow cars I'd happily drive and/or track. Miata, RX-8, S2000, Integra Type-R, RSX-S, 987.1 Cayman, 986 Boxster...they all run 14 or 15 second 1/4 miles and guess what else... they are all sub-3000 lbs and great to drive.
I've had the chance to track a few 400-500whp cars and sure it's fun powering out of corners and accelerating down the straight, but it's equally fun to me chucking a lightweight car into corners or carving up back roads in a small chassis.
Who knows maybe this is their grand epiphany in the final episode (or not), but regardless there's such a misplaced emphasis on horsepower and 60/quarter mile times these days you'd think the only fun you could have in a car is flooring it in a straight line.
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Yeah agree. Also the S15 that they talk about in the video, stock to stock has about the same straight line performance as a twin. You can probably get more power out of an S15 tuning it being a turbo though. If the 86/BRZ was around in the late 90’s early 2000s it would’ve been a direct competitor to an S15 and considered “quickish”. But nowadays with so much power in hot hatches and the like it’s considered slow. It’s definitely quick enough for the street and backroads etc. and yeah tired of defending their straight line performance too. If you don’t like it, don’t buy the f*cking car and complain about it.