Picked up my 2023 BRZ an hour ago

[CaptainFenderbaum]

Originally Posted by Greg Erskine

Where's the tape deck?

Yeah, and how the hell does one roll down the windows?

[Snoopysvet]

Originally Posted by Greg Erskine

Depends where you are starting from.

I only got my BRZ 4 weeks ago.

Compared to a 1999 Honda Civic there is a significant amount of tech (for me) to learn.

Where's the tape deck?

I hear you, I had a 2009 Elantra, where is the CD player?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Snoopysvet

I hear you, I had a 2009 Elantra, where is the CD player?

My wife's 2022 Ascent still has a CD player. I was shocked.

[Dzmitry]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

My wife's 2022 Ascent still has a CD player. I was shocked.

Wow, I didn't know they still did that. My dad wishes his Crosstrek had it. Came from an 04 Limited Outback with the CD player that stored something like 5 CD's and could switch between them. That's fancy tech right there!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dzmitry

Wow, I didn't know they still did that. My dad wishes his Crosstrek had it. Came from an 04 Limited Outback with the CD player that stored something like 5 CD's and could switch between them. That's fancy tech right there!

The switching ones I had in my cars usually had a life expectancy of about 2 months before they jammed and were useless.

[Dzmitry]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The switching ones I had in my cars usually had a life expectancy of about 2 months before they jammed and were useless.

He got lucky then. His 04 lasted most of the cars life and gave out after about 13 years, after which I replaced his whole unit with an aftermarket stereo.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dzmitry

He got lucky then. His 04 lasted most of the cars life and gave out after about 13 years, after which I replaced his whole unit with an aftermarket stereo.

Probably the only Subaru HU that ever worked right then!

[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Probably the only Subaru HU that ever worked right then!

Well, my 2006 STi had a six disk in dash unit. It was still working fine when I sold the car thirteen years and 280k later. I have over a thousand CD's and there were always CDs playing when ever I drove it.

[vindiesel]

Originally Posted by CaptainFenderbaum

Yeah, and how the hell does one roll down the windows?

I feel that expression is for people born before 1990

[Sasquachulator]

Our 2017 BMW X1 has a CD player

We dont use it, phones and flash drives store a shitton more music files than the 12-15 or so tracks per CD.

Of course if we wanted to use it, we will (The glove box still has a bunch of CDs sitting there )

[Greg Erskine]

Hey Snoopysvet,

Have you mastered it yet?

[Greg Erskine]

Are these blue BRZ common or what?

I was just at a set of traffic lights and there was 3 near-identical blue 22/23 BRZ's in spitting distance. Starting to think about quantum entanglement.

Only saw one other BRZ on the way home.

No Toyota 86's.

[soundman98]

i've seen 1 new stock one, 1 anime vinyl wrapped one, and one drift-bombed/sawzalled-bumper/6' tall bozoku tailpipe one.

but all in passing. the dealers don't even have any to look at.

[Desertnate]

Originally Posted by Greg Erskine

Are these blue BRZ common or what?

I was just at a set of traffic lights and there was 3 near-identical blue 22/23 BRZ's in spitting distance. Starting to think about quantum entanglement.

Only saw one other BRZ on the way home.

No Toyota 86's.

I think it really depends on where you are.

I've not seen another second-gen BRZ/GT86 in my area in over four months. Since the second gen has been released I've only seen 5 or 6 in my area; 4 were BRZ's, 1~2 were GT86's.

Last year my second gen BRZ was the only one at the Cars and Coffee I attend, there were a few first gen BRZ/86/FRS which would show up.

At my local autocross events there are two second gens, both blue, but mine is WRC blue and the other guy's is Sapphire Blue. From that sample I'd say the blues are pretty popular, but when looking back over all the second gen cars I've seen across several states over the last two years I've seen just as many in white as I've seen in blue, with at least one or two in red.