Your most amazing vs most humiliating moments in your brz

[IDFWU 420]

Amazing: nothing yet since I just got the car

Humiliating: tried going over a bump slowly and stalled when people were looking lol

[qoncept]

Oh, this is an easy one.

Best: Showing up at a local Corvette Club autox and beating the fastest Vette by a ridiculous 8 seconds.

Worst: Showing up to my first SCCA autox in years and DNFing my first run so bad that I got a talkin' to from the safety steward.

[MikeM7]

Originally Posted by IDFWU 420

Amazing: nothing yet since I just got the car

That is no excuse.

I drifted mine on the way home from picking it up on accident

[IDFWU 420]

Originally Posted by MikeM7

That is no excuse.

I drifted mine on the way home from picking it up on accident

I'm new to manual so I'm still learning :P

[PollosHermanos]

Amazing: Having people ride in my car during an open autocross event just after I got the car. I had person after person asking me if the car was stock and not believing how much fun it was and how well it handled. It was so awesome to see people get so excited about it.

Embarrassing: To be fair this is less embarrassing and more just a constant annoyance. I was out with my non-car friends one morning (also in their 30s) and had to leave to get my tint applied on the BRZ. When I said that I had to leave one of them asked if I had time to pick up Vin Diesel on the way or if he was going to meet me there. These jokes, while subtle/clever, continue. Love my friends but car people they aren't.

[Scenic Driver]

Originally Posted by PollosHermanos

When I said that I had to leave one of them asked if I had time to pick up Vin Diesel on the way or if he was going to meet me there. These jokes, while subtle/clever, continue. Love my friends but car people they aren't.

LOL

It's not your friends fault if you choose to live your life a 1/4 mile at a time :-)

[MikeM7]

[Cope52]

Where do I start? Getting dusted by gramps in his LeSabre, explaining the crickets at gas stations and parking spots, having to open my door to receive my coffee at Dunkin drive-thru because the power windows broke. Amazing? Any back road I can let loose on forgives all..

[BRZBlack]

Worst: Stalled it at a stoplight in front of a bunch of people downtown on a saturday night. They pointed and laughed.
Best: Let my older brother take her to the store during a family BBQ to grab some stuff. (Talks V8's/American muscle all the way) He came back with a huge smile on his face. "That's the most fun I've had in a car in a long time. Like it's on rails."

[jwSubMOA]

Best: taking a friends friend for a ride and making him cry and beg to get out.

Worst: 11pm, no traffic, .5 mile from home. Legit 90 sec burn out followed by a loooonggg, beautiful pair of tire marks. Immediately rounding the curve in the road and running into a police road block. "Did you really just stop in the road and do a burnout?". "No", while tire smoke rolls out of the interior like a Jamaican nightclub.

[Talus1]

Best: Driving my BRZ away from the Porsche dealer after test driving a used Cayman and realizing that the BRZ is still compelling in comparison.

Worst: Being parked between two pick up trucks in a busy Beer Store parking lot and not being able to back out into traffic because I can't see over/around/under them. I ended up waiting for one of them to leave...

[MikeM7]

These are great stories everyone, thanks for participating. I was worried nobody would chime in, but this turned out to be a pretty entertaining thread

[extrashaky]

Humiliating: None that I can think of, because I don't drive like that. I'm not bothered at all when the minivan takes off at the red light and leaves me behind as I flawlessly execute a perfectly normal start.

Fun: I went through a drive-thru, and the cute teenage girl at the window liked my car, asked me what it was, then turned around to the other people working there and said, "Hey y'all come check out this car."

One of the guys came over, leaned out the window, looked the car over from front to back, then said:

"Shit's fuckin' dope, yo."

The girl gasped, slapped him on the arm and said, "You can't talk to the customers like that! You're gonna get me in trouble."

But I was laughing and assured her she would get no complaints from me.

Funny: I was on a two-lane road in rural Alabama that had a 55 mph speed limit. I was going 60. This road has some straights and some moderate curves, but nothing too severe and certainly nothing the BRZ can't handle at 60 mph. I've driven this road a few dozen times and know it pretty well.

An asshole in a Jeep Grand Cherokee came flying up behind me on one of the straights, braked hard right on my bumper and started tailgating me. I didn't speed up. I didn't slow down. I left it right on 60. I figured if he wanted around, he could go for it at the next clear straight, and I wouldn't do a thing to discourage him.

But then we came to the first of a series of pretty sharp curves. I didn't slow down, because I didn't have to. The Jeep also didn't slow down and continued to tailgate me into the turn. Then he was sliding sideways into the other lane. My tires never even complained. I could be on a leisurely Sunday drive, and that guy was shitting his pants.

Thankfully there was no oncoming traffic. He overcorrected slightly and took his right wheels onto the shoulder, but somehow he managed to recover without going into the ditch. It was actually a pretty decent bit of driving to keep that thing upright. After that he was a bit more conservative with his speed and kept a more respectable distance from my tailpipe.

[MikeM7]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Funny: I was on a two-lane road in rural Alabama that had a 55 mph speed limit. I was going 60. This road has some straights and some moderate curves, but nothing too severe and certainly nothing the BRZ can't handle at 60 mph. I've driven this road a few dozen times and know it pretty well.

An asshole in a Jeep Grand Cherokee came flying up behind me on one of the straights, braked hard right on my bumper and started tailgating me. I didn't speed up. I didn't slow down. I left it right on 60. I figured if he wanted around, he could go for it at the next clear straight, and I wouldn't do a thing to discourage him.

But then we came to the first of a series of pretty sharp curves. I didn't slow down, because I didn't have to. The Jeep also didn't slow down and continued to tailgate me into the turn. Then he was sliding sideways into the other lane. My tires never even complained. I could be on a leisurely Sunday drive, and that guy was shitting his pants.

Thankfully there was no oncoming traffic. He overcorrected slightly and took his right wheels onto the shoulder, but somehow he managed to recover without going into the ditch. It was actually a pretty decent bit of driving to keep that thing upright. After that he was a bit more conservative with his speed and kept a more respectable distance from my tailpipe.

I sold my wrangler rubicon to buy my BRZ, so I am all too familiar with the world of difference in how the two drive. I feel like I've been set free from the shackles that jeep kept me in, I'll never go back. I used to take the wifes focus at every opportunity, now I look for reasons to leave the house in my car. The wife loves it too because she gets to go on more dates and enjoys the heated seats and climate control, not to mention the good mood it puts me in.

We are also extremely pleased with the jump from 16mpg to 28mpg and filling the tank for 25 bucks.