Hi all! Just picked up my BRZ on 8/4, silver Premium.
A little background, I first got into sports cars when I was 16 or so and watched my older buddy with his '82 Mazda RX-7 blaze up a curvy hill - I'd never really seen a car handle like that before.
I ended up getting an 88 FC RX-7 a couple years later after graduating high school, then sold that in 2000 to get a 93 FD RX-7. Roughly 8 years ago the engine blew, I got screwed over by a local mechanic who claimed to be an "expert" but failed to even get the steering wheel reinstalled properly (let alone a persistent coolant buzzer and no boost/little acceleration over 3500 RPMs)... and I ended up driving my dad's old 88 Ford Escort for a couple years.
Since then I bounced to a 2000 Subaru Legacy as I needed something reliable and reasonable for a new position at work, then upgraded to a 2007 Mazda CX-7 on which I racked up 100,000 miles in just a bit over two years.
The last thing I drove was a 2010 Ford Focus as I wanted good gas mileage and a car I wasn't going to be upset with putting a lot of mileage on in a short while. It had 92,000+ miles on it when I traded it for the BRZ two and a half weeks ago.
Fortunately, I have yet another new position with my employer and no longer drive non-stop five days a week, and I plan on owning this car for a long, long time.
I cried when my 93 RX-7 blew... but now I've found the joy of driving again! And now you probably know way too much about my car history.
