(GR86) Second Generation FR-S/BRZ insider info...

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Speak for yourself!

How's that armrest? I've been looking at that one vs the full length one that hinges on the side.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Speak for yourself!

OK, I stand corrected, seats and armrests in some models. Otherwise my 1977 Honda Civic CVCC wagon had about as much design style.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

How's that armrest? I've been looking at that one vs the full length one that hinges on the side.

I have never used it and it has spent all of it's life pushed all the way back to leave room for coffee cups. I have never used and armrest in any car I had that was equipped with one though. My formative driving years were all spent in cars from the bench seat era so I never got in the habit and it feels unnatural to me to even try and use one now.
It does look pretty though.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

I honestly like our interior. It's simple and functional, buttons/screens/dials are where they are easy to find, and it's not overstyled, yet not bland at the same time. The materials are nice and most surfaces don't feel like cheap hard plastic..

I don't disagree, it's just not exactly the standard bearer for luxury, which is what we were talking about.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

OK, I stand corrected, seats and armrests in some models. Otherwise my 1977 Honda Civic CVCC wagon had about as much design style.

I have never been able to wrap my head around this whole interior "style" complaint anyway. Just how much "style" do people expect in a car.


Should it look like this?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

I honestly like our interior. It's simple and functional, buttons/screens/dials are where they are easy to find, and it's not overstyled, yet not bland at the same time. The materials are nice and most surfaces don't feel like cheap hard plastic.

I find it refreshing compared to cars these days and it reminds me a lot of my old E46.

That is one of my very minor gripes about the Hakone and any other with the auto HAVAC. It is just far too busy for my taste and for some reason they felt they need two big lights for every control. There is just no reason other than to create "style" to take up the whole center column just for HVAC and a start button.







I want to get a remove before flight tag!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I have never been able to wrap my head around this whole interior "style" complaint anyway. Just how much "style" do people expect in a car.

Honestly, I've never really cared one way or the other much either. Sort of ironic given how much time I spend in my car.

On the armrests, I use them in the Suburban but have no real need of one in a small car.

[Mike_ZN6]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Of course, we do own a car where there was about zero thought put into interior design (well except for the seats) so we can only complain so much.

My only real issue with the interior design is the center dash piece in the 2013-206 models. Otherwise, I don't think the interior design is bad in these cars. The layout is very similar to a 981 Cayman. I suspect they used the 981 interior for inspiration. The twins do have a lot of interior vibrations/rattles that I didn't expect, though.

[LancePower]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

How's that armrest? I've been looking at that one vs the full length one that hinges on the side.

I liked it so much in my first Twin, I had it installed in my 2nd.

The install process is more complex than the hinged models though.

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by Mike_ZN6

The twins do have a lot of interior vibrations/rattles that I didn't expect, though.

I see this mentioned a lot, but my 2013 is tight as a drum at almost 90K. I'm usually very OCD about interior rattles and I've gone rattle hunting with felt tape in all of my BMWs, but the BRZ has been fine.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

I see this mentioned a lot, but my 2013 is tight as a drum at almost 90K. I'm usually very OCD about interior rattles and I've gone rattle hunting with felt tape in all of my BMWs, but the BRZ has been fine.

I mean, are there any bumps in Florida even capable of producing rattles?

[DarkSunrise]

I don't know how you all hear rattles. My car is so loud with the road noise, wind noise, transmission/gear noise, crickets, and aftermarket exhaust that I couldn't tell you if there was a rattle or not

[Sasquachulator]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

That is one of my very minor gripes about the Hakone and any other with the auto HAVAC. It is just far too busy for my taste and for some reason they felt they need two big lights for every control. There is just no reason other than to create "style" to take up the whole center column just for HVAC and a start button.







I want to get a remove before flight tag!

I Prefer tho auto hvac interior mainly cuz the manual HVAC base interior looks SOOO cheap imo. Not just basic, but cheap. Especially since those hvac knobs are almost exactly the same as in a previous generation Toyota Yaris.....and those were cheap as hell on the inside (i know its a cheap car but still.....it came from Toyota's cheap material era). Heck if i didnt care all that much about it i probably would have an 86 sitting in the garage right now. Maybe im just a bit more 'grown up' than before and i would prefer to have the niceties (plus all my cars right now have someniceties that the base 86 doesnt have).


the armrest is nice actually. I had a Honda Fit with a center armrest but...it was weirdly not designed at the same height as the door armrest so it was basically useless......(it was a little too low for me to rest my arm on). I rest my arm all the time on the center arm rest in my current cars so it'll be something i'd want to get. I thinkt he sliding one is better than that other one that flips to one side. The height is correct, at least from when i tried, and i think its a little taller than that flip one. The sliding mechanism is pretty smooth and seems like it stays in place ok. The "locking" mechanism doesnt seem super secure so i feel like eventually it might wear to the point that you can end up moving it around with your elbow

[Mike_ZN6]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

I see this mentioned a lot, but my 2013 is tight as a drum at almost 90K. I'm usually very OCD about interior rattles and I've gone rattle hunting with felt tape in all of my BMWs, but the BRZ has been fine.

You are definitely the outlier here. It seems interior vibrations plague this platform. It even gets mentioned in reviews of the car.

In my previous car, a 2007 Civic, I can't recall any similar noises. And it was almost a decade older!