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Originally Posted by Dimman
The Cayman part came from Toyota (and Nissan) comparing their cars to it. But in Toyota's case people seem to equate 'handling benchmark' to 'FT86 will be a $20kish Cayman'. Not the same thing.
I think this car can be reasonably compared to the MS3, GTI and SI, as well as the Miata For the overall buyer pool's definition of 'sporty compact' anyways. Magazines will compare the Civic SI to this thing, I'm pretty sure. Could be an interesting comparo. The Miata vs FT86 hardly needs to be mentioned...
But a lot of us won't. All those other cars have been out for a while, and most of us on here have all had a chance to go for them instead. But we haven't.
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Yup on this we agree. The things this car is going to be compared with, and cross shopped with, are the sport compacts and hot hatches....and it needs to be competitive against them.
I certainly won't be comparing it to ZL-1s etc. That's just silly. The only thing said was if this car doesn't meet reasonable expectations, I'll look at other vehicles - as will others. Reasonable expectations: It's not slower than everything else that it's going to be compared against.