New here? Come say hi =)

[WhatBoiPanama]

Originally Posted by MarMcc91

Welcome! New here too and from Houston, H-town twins

Thanks! haha we'll probably run into each other I'm looking to get a gray/black one too.

[5thGenOwner]

Originally Posted by WhatBoiPanama

Thanks! haha we'll probably run into each other I'm looking to get a gray/black one too.

Love the Asphalt! My camera, nor my picture taking skills, do it justice. I'll need to work on my selection of parking spots, as well.

[daFoot]

Originally Posted by Kid90

drive it first! along with the other new sport coupes out on the market before buying the FRS, that way you know for sure you want it lol

Pulled the trigger today - awesome car!

[Kid90]

Originally Posted by daFoot

Pulled the trigger today - awesome car!

Shots fired! car is great, did you at least test drive other coupes? lol

[Kid90]

Originally Posted by mb_

Picked it up yesterday! Proud new owner of a 2015 Ultramarine Blue





Used to have an MR2, sold it to get the FRS. Will miss it but I wanted the FRS before I even bought the MR2

welcome to the community!

[JC_FRS]

Hi everyone. Wanna introduce myself, picked up this gorgeous FRS about 2 weeks ago

I'm in SoCal Cerritos area, so holla if you see me around ^^

[wickedfrsgrl]

This is my first time in these forums. I've been eyeing either the BRZ or the FR-S for awhile. I had many chats with a dear friend that has the BRZ and what he's been doing to his car first of all makes me really go all fan girlish but gives me inspiration. So finally I took the plunge and just bought a 2014 Ultramarine Scion FR-S over the weekend. It only has 3k on it and it has a corsa performance exhaust on it. So hopefully with my friends help and poking around here I can get some ideas to make this car better.

Penny

[trvth]

Greetings, all!

I purchased a 2015 Halo FR-S on Friday the 13th of March. I'm in love.

I drove it stock for a couple of thousand miles before having some TRD mods applied. I went with
TRD exhaust
TRD quick shifter
TRD sway bars front and back
TRD lowering springs
TRD brake pads
TRD cold air intake & air filter

Love the new sound with the TRD exhaust, and it does feel more responsive when driving. I assume that the exhaust, air intake, and air filter all contribute to slightly increased power/torque.

The quick shifter is quick, and I really like that as well. The lowering springs put it pretty low; I can no longer get in/out of my work parking lot through the side entrance due to the steepness of the ramp. I'm planning to autocross during the summer, but I have a conflict with the April 'cross date, so it'll be May or June before I can do that.

I previously drove a '77 Lancia Scorpion (mid-engine) which I autocrossed. This car has that same "riding on rails" feel, at least until the back end breaks loose.

[daFoot]

Originally Posted by Kid90

Shots fired! car is great, did you at least test drive other coupes? lol

I didn't - had a narrow window of time to purchase. Was considering a GTI as well. No matter though, the BRZ is the closest thing to my old RX-7 that I've ever driven and I'm really enjoying it.

[Evo86]

Hello everyone! Live in the Clearwater, Florida area. Picked up a 2015 Firestorm FR-S this past Friday. Any other Tampa/St. Pete people around here?

[Lonewolf]

Originally Posted by Evo86

Hello everyone! Live in the Clearwater, Florida area. Picked up a 2015 Firestorm FR-S this past Friday. Any other Tampa/St. Pete people around here?

Welcome!

I'm sure you'll find some locals here:

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13

[TJ213]

Hi all

Decently long time lurker here, but finally decided to post. Waiting to pick up a used FR-S any day now (waiting for the title before writing the check)

Really excited to join this group! Learned to drive stick on an S2000 and I think the FR-S is a fantastic embodiment of a simple, fun, modern driver's car.


I told my self no mods for the first year, but been eyeing that open flash tune really closely....

[Shedd22]

Originally Posted by TJ213

Hi all

Decently long time lurker here, but finally decided to post. Waiting to pick up a used FR-S any day now (waiting for the title before writing the check)

Really excited to join this group! Learned to drive stick on an S2000 and I think the FR-S is a fantastic embodiment of a simple, fun, modern driver's car.


I told my self no mods for the first year, but been eyeing that open flash tune really closely....

Do yourself a favor and get it

[soulreapersteve]

Hello everyone!

Thought I'd make my very first post here an introductory one, and a story on how I stumbled upon the Twins.

Right off the bat, I will fully admit to having no deep technical knowledge about cars. I can get by with basic terminology but aside from pistons, flywheel, headers, etc, that's pretty much it. Why is this the case? It's because computers and the IT field is my first passion. I just recently started to get interested into cars about October-November of last year. Let's start from the beginning.


Up until the end of last year, I considered all cars to be the same (something that gets you from point A to point B; overall, one can say that does hold true). That was until I looked out the window while riding the bus to the local college and saw something that caught my interest. It was yellow, convertible, and just... interesting. So, I snapped a picture and reverse-image searched it on Google. Turns out it was a Honda S2000.

For 2 months, that car lingered in the back of my mind as I tutored the 1st years while looking for an IT job. Never became obsessed with it, just kept thinking about the car once or twice every week. That doubled when I finally landed this internship (hopefully full time position soon) at this somewhat unknown but very large company around Thanksgiving. All I could think about was buying that car. I wanted that car so bad. Great looking. People were saying it was a great car to learn how to drive a manual transmission in. I can keep going on forever.

As I looked around on the internet for <75k miles on the odometer in my area, there were none to be found. There were a few... in California and Florida. So I became a bit frustrated but not to the point of giving up. Fast forward to around mid-January, 2015. My parents gave me their 2000 Corolla since I got the job, plus they wanted a new car anyways (I think that was the main reason haha). They had minor issues with their RAV4 so they went to the Toyota dealership to get it checked out, and I decided to tag along since I had nothing else to do. I sat in the showroom for about 10 minutes while they talked things over.

Then that's when I saw this peculiar yellow car that caught my eye. Guess my subconscious has a thing for yellow cars? Anyways, I walked over and looked at it for about 5 minutes. "It is a beautiful looking car," is what I kept saying. I spotted a pamphlet and picked it up without really paying much attention to the print, except for the front page that stated "2015 FR-S". I went home afterwards without a second thought of that car.

Fast forward again to the end of February. I was browsing again for the S2000. At this time, the Twins were #2 on my list but was in the "maybe" category. That's when I saw an AP1 (MY2000) w/16k miles for $17,000. That's when I started to freak out and get all "I want this car, NOW!!" I showed it to my brother, dad, and uncle; most of my family are car people so I go to them for car stuff while they come to me to fix their computer issues. Anyways, my dad said buy a new car. For your first car that you will spend your own money on, get one that is new. My uncle said the same thing, while my brother was 50/50. He was on the fence until he watched some videos on the Twins. After a week, he said "F*** the S2000, get the BRZ/FR-S." I must mention he is 5 years younger than I am. It also took me another week or so after that but the seed had been planted and it started to grow.

That's when my obsession kicked in to full gear. I watched a ton of reviews, read articles, and stumbled upon this forum where I read further into people's experiences and such. With every passing week since I gave up on the S2K, my interest blossomed into where I am now reading on what each part of the car does, how to properly maintain cars, etc. In fact, I now consider cars to be a close 2nd hobby to my main passion for anything computer related. I'm not just reading/watching content related to the Twins, but any car that I stumble upon. Man, it's a whole new world that I'm late to.

Right now, I am leaning towards the FR-S over the BRZ but I shall see where my finances are around this time next year as I plan to buy the car outright with no loans. My fellow coworkers, who are 10+ years older than I am, said I am in the right age (23 and no kids) to be having fun with a sports car. Plus, my current wage as an intern (more as full time) will more than enough justify in buying one of the Twins. I plan to keep it mostly stock for a while and see where it goes from there.

Anyways, if you read this whole thing, thank you very much for taking the time out of your day/night to do so. I am looking forward to learning from and interacting with everyone as I search through what's new everyday. Also looking forward to meeting up with some of the fellow Twins owners around the Pacific NW in the future!

Thanks again!

-Steve

PS: Turns out that yellow car that I saw at the Toyota dealership is the 2015 Release Series 1.0 :p