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Unlike you, I think my Cayman's interior was much nicer than the BRZ's.
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Puzzled here... My '11 Cayman's switchgear was atrocious. Fulcrum points were ridiculous and the haptic feel was chintzy as hell. BRZ's switchgear feels WAY better to me, not even close! Ergos of rotary climate controls way better than the goofass rockers in the Cayman. The Porsche's mechanical "sport" seats were *kickass* though, while the BRZ PP/Limited's seats are merely great.
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I do not find the head unit to be acceptable from a functionality standpoint, the stock audio/speakers (and design) sucks
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This is true.
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, the feel and look of the interior trim isn't where I'd like it to be and the quality isn't where it should be - on a 5/6 year old car with low mileage, the pleather around the instrument cluster is already loose, there are rattles and squeaks coming from everywhere,
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Funny, I only have one occasional minor rattly noise at the driver side base of the windshield where a piece of foam strip tries to migrate out of place, I can easily shove it back in place. Other than that I'm remarkably free of rattles/squeaks/etc. after 4 1/2 years 70k miles and 40 or so track days.
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As Dadhawk said, it's not "coddling to rich people". The US government has mandated an amount of safety equipment that prohibits passenger cars being under a certain weight and a certain cost.
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And a Miata meets all of them at $28-33k at 2350 lb.
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So yeah, cars are heavier. Most of it is directly or indirectly due to government regulations.
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I don't think so... If anything government regs *encourage* bigger/heavier cars. Cars with a larger footprint get a CAFE break, and trucks/SUVs get even bigger CAFE breaks.
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PS: I don't really think Porsche is making porkers. You can't judge today's cars weight against 70s/80s cars weight, because those things were/are deathtraps.
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The lightest-weight Porsches are over 3000 lb. They could do a lot better... If Mazda can build a 2350 lb. sports car, so can Porsche.
70s/80s cars are irrelevant, suffice it to say that progress means today we can build safer cars that weigh less.