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Originally Posted by Dezoris
I have to speak my peace on this issue.
To be successful in sales you rarely need the best products or innovative engineering. Mass market consumers don't care about all the technical details, they just want value and simplicity. The esoteric engineering crowd are the 5% who want all of this. Even then only about 1% put their money where their mouth is. On this site there are only a hand full of guys who will go balls out designing and testing a better mouse trap and most of them have products to sell.
As all of this pertains to the FR-S/BRZ these are mass produced cars with standard issue stamped/cast steel everything. Not one aluminum suspension component. Material wise it's about as exotic as a Chevy Aveo.
If we started with a chassis from someone like Lotus, purpose built, I might be a bit more excited for advanced engineering for this car.
But really after following progress on most of the fastest guys on here, they don't need anything more than standard issue materials.
Over the past 5 years I have spent over 20k on karting, cars and projects.
The pay off?
A $60 Ikea display case filled with 40$ worth of Chinese made trophies.
Most anyone here with experience will tell you, does not matter what you spend on motorsports, sometimes less is more.
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You're entitled to your own opinion. And for the most part you're right. But there's a reason why Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Penske, Ganassi have so many wins: $. It's not necessarily about the money you spend, but how you spend it. But a lot of the time, you need to spend a lot on the right pieces (parts, engineers, drivers, etc.)