NGL, I wasn't too disappointed in the zero-feel but super-quick and *precise* steering of my '01 AP1 S2000, coming from a MAX-feel high-effort *slow* manual rack in my 240Z. 2017 BRZ's steering was just about perfect. '23 loses a bit of feel and also the EPS gives up at some corners at some tracks, curious that they had fixed that in gen-1 but then the issue came back for gen-2...
I think the hydraulic vs. electric is not a big deal. I actually preferred the quicker and more linear in the 981 Cayman electric steering vs. my 987's hydraulic steering which was on the slow side and I really didn't like the nonlinearity between ~45-60 degrees at the steering wheel. Everybody lauded those last Porsches with hydraulic as having the best steering ever but I never got used to it, greatly preferred my '17 BRZ's steering on road and track when I was comparing the two in 2019. After a year's comparison on road and track I sold the Porsche and kept the BRZ...
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