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Originally Posted by BoxerRumble
Hello, I am new. I just bought a highly modded 2013 FR-S with power and suspension mods. Bought it so my boys (16 and 19) can learn standard and we can have fun modding it further, as well as learn mechanical things (they build gaming PCS and are into gaming). Also the boys were not intersted in my 87 Porsche 911 when I had it. They now realize what they missed and begged me to get one again. I did make money selling my 911 (keeping it from year 20 to year 30) but to re-buy one was going to be impossible, prices are through the roof. My older son was into WRXs and STIs and we drove a few, but they were too scarry fast for me - and for him being 19 I got scarred. Then we stumbled almost by accident on the BRZ/FR-S. To me it has enough power (especially if modded) to give some oomph, but it shines in the handling. Now that I have had it for 6 days, I am beginning to think it may have more power, and handle better than my former 911 (shhhhhhh). Anyway this also seems to be a great community and great palce to learn.
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From another Porsche guy, welcome. Also, go get a 97-99 986. They're unfairly cheap and mostly unloved by the community, you can do plenty of wrench turning on them, and it's still very much a Porsche. You can probably still find some decent examples for less than $10k. Same power as the 86 (but more torque), similar weight, and even the same weight distribution, just flipped from front to rear. The only really big thing the 86 has over the Boxster for me is seats. The Boxster seats are like slabs compared to the buckets in the 86 cars. And for the Boxster over the 86, the sound of a Porsche flat six is what a boxer is supposed to sound like, period.
Having both around makes driving pretty fun.
