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Old 08-22-2014, 07:31 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by funwheeldrive View Post
I think something that was missed in this review was the price difference between the two cars. In 2009, a base s2000 would cost you $35,000. Fast forward 4 years later and you could buy a FRS/BRZ for $10k less.

Toyota and Subaru have made one of the most accessible sports cars of this generation.
3 years, Toyobaru was on sale early summer 2012 and Honda dealers still had inventory all the way up to 2011. You could theoretically have bought a brand new S2000 and traded it for a brand new FR-S within a year.

Worth noting Honda dealers struggled to sell S2000's and the numbers declined sharply, I wouldn't be surprised if you could drive off the lot in an S2000 in 2009 for less than the average FRS in it's first year of sales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_S...and_production

I still haven't quite digested that there have been more Toyobaru's sold worldwide than S2000's...
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