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Originally Posted by Tcoat
I think you will find that part of the issue is that some of us have read hundreds and hundreds of such articles and they have lost any impact at all.
Edit: read the comments. You did a better job of presenting the car than he did.
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Thank you, and I agree with all your points. You are right about the writing of the article. Regardless, I don't think it takes away from it being nice that someone is writing positive things about the car 7 years after it's been introduced, at a time when all other automotive writers/journalists/bloggers either totally ignore the car, or parrot the tired "needs more power!" even if they haven't actually driven it themselves. It took me 7 years to come around and finally buy one for myself!
The first generation BRZ/86 is at the end of of its run. As such, it might even be appropriate to look back on it with a bit of nostalgia, both for it being a spiritual reincarnation of a basic 1960's sports car, and for what it is (and as I get older, nostalgia becomes an increasingly big part of my life, mostly because so many things in the present suck, and the future looks even more bleak). I think that's one of the reasons Daily Tourismo chose to write about it now. It's a swan song to the car, a goodbye to the original BRZ/86, and especially poignant coming from someone with a site dedicated to old cars.
There's a new Toyobaru GR86 in the works, with much discussion, speculation, and hoping about it (of which I've been a part). It might, or might not, actually be produced, and the timing is uncertain. If or when it comes, it will be different from the first generation, more refined, etc. etc., all the things that companies do to 'evolve' a model and move it 'upscale'. That makes it particularly timely to fondly look back on the original car.
The BRZ/86 never was and will never be a huge seller. Even if the second gen car is never produced I doubt the first gen car will skyrocket in value (at least not in my lifetime). But I think people will miss it when it's gone, and will look at it more favorably when the only other remaining choices are the usual anonymous paddle-shifted automatic small displacement turbos, or worse, electric appliances.
Besides, one of the oldest truisms about human nature is, you don't really appreciate what you have until it's gone. How many of us have only really appreciated and pined away for a lost love
after they've left us?