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Originally Posted by MVJ1975
Of course they do, they're cars. I suspect there are lots of Caymans making grocery runs too, but I don't think Porsche designed them to do that. Speaking of that, Porsche runs ads for the Cayman, too.
The FR-S will misbehave with the nannies on with these tires, especially in the wet, so you're going to get low-grip antics whether you want them or not. Most definitely if you're new to RWD. Add in the basically useless backseat, the decidedly feature-free cabin, the need for 93 octane fuel (Si only needs 91), all point to a car that isn't going to win many comparisons in the eyes of an "average" driver, especially when you can get the Si in hatchback and sedan flavor. Toyota does care about those customers, as I said, it has the tC for them.
Toyota certainly doesn't mind if non-enthusiast drivers buy the car, though. Money is money.
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porsche very much targets "normal" drivers. there is way too much hype about rwd on this forum and my guess is that many people on this forum are experiencing rwd for the first time. all this talk about unavoidable low grip stuff is a bit extreme dont you think? we have had light weight, low grip cars throughout history without a problem and even today there are many "normal" drivers riding around in trucks (light weight, high tq, useless to no backseats). 93 isnt required either. there are many frs running around in socal where 93 isnt an option. very few cars cater to an exclusive enthusiast demographic and if they do, the most certainly do not come with the option for a slow, expensive, heavy, conventional automatic transmission and offer 30+ mpg