Hello all! I am in love with this new fleet of cars, and am particularly interested in the BRZ as a future first-new-car buy. As of current, I am about to be 19, finishing up senior year in high school, taken three years of auto shop, and am going to Lincoln College of Technology starting July 23rd for my Automotive Technology with Associates degree course. My goal there is to maintain at least a 3.8 GPA as well as 98%+ attendance rate so that I will hopefully be hand-picked by BMW or Mercedes to be a technician for them. After about 10-or so years of saving up money, I wish to open up my own business such as RE Amemiya, Tomei, HKS, etc. Building exclusive cars for an exclusive group of people such as ourselves.
I own two FC RX-7's, an '87 Sport (crashed May '11) and an '88 GXL (still in the works of getting ready to drive again). I have an unrelenting passion for the RX-7 and the rotary engine because of the fact that they were both designed with out-and-out performance in mind. Built for true enthusiasts who appreciate what true performance feels like. This is the same reason why I have fallen absolutely in LOVE with the new 86 in the past few years. I feel like this car will begin a new movement in creating small, fun, affordable sports cars, and begin an era similar to what we saw throughout the '80s and '90s.
My personal preference between the US spec versions of the 86 will be the Subaru BRZ. I first imagined it to be the Scion, but at the end of the say, you are still saying "I drive a Scion." Another factor that drew me into the Subie is the fact that the spring rates allow for a more track-dedicated set-up from the get-go, with a higher rate in the front and softer in the rear compared to the FR-S. I hope to own my very own brand new BRZ within the next three to four years, after I have been working enough to be able to bring one home and start making it my own.
For now though, I will sit back and patiently watch as others find out what they can about our new favorite sports coupe, and when I enter the game, I will be well informed and ready to build my interpretation of what I call a perfectly well-balanced street friendly track car.
Here is my photoshop of what my first basic plans are for the car when I do own one, I know it's not as good as some of the extremely nice renderings on here, but hey, I like it
