Hmm sure. It's just difficult for me to set out my priorities as it's constantly changing pretty much weekly. I love the idea of an affordable RWD daily driver with the occasional track tires+rims for sunday blasting so the BRZ has me intrigued.

After driving a few FWD vehicles (my mom's Camry Hybrid, brother's Acura CSX, and Mazdaspeed3 along with other testdrives), I can conclude that I prefer to stay away from understeering pigs. Just like how Top Gear explains, with oversteer you can't see what's about to kill you compared to understeer where you have full view of what's about to kill you.

After driving a proper AWD vehicle myself, AWD is simply brilliant... In very limited cases. Unfortunately, it doesn't snow here in Vancouver as much as one might think so I find it rather useless most of the year. Sure, it's nice having that added grip everywhere I go, but I often find my LGT to be understeery and a little nose heavy/unresponsive. It goes from predictable understeer, then out of nowhere, power-out oversteer kicks in.

I guess I'll just wait until the price of the BRZ drops, if it ever does... Hey, who knows? Maybe the revised version will have more torque and a lower price tag.

Ah, I just want a fun car 

It's true, the MS3 is quite awful in many ways, specifically with the third pedal... I'm not an amazing driver, but I am no noob when it comes to manual (my only car is a manual) but my word the MS3 was quite a hard one to master. It's literally an on-off switch, but somehow more unpleasant. No matter how hard I was trying not to stall and be as smooth as possible, within 1st-3rd, it was shaky at least once. The power was great though, plenty of mid-range oomph. I absolutely disgust the interior though, and I am no aesthetics nut... Terrible array of whatever the shit is there and the navi screen is the size of my iphone, but far away within my reach.

I never really liked Mazda's offerings, but the MS6 was a bit more interesting, even though the MS3 was the faster car.

I understand how the VW GTI is definitely a worthy choice, but with word going around how the base MSRP is going up (meaning it's going up even more here in Canada), I think it might be getting a little too expensive.

"While Volkswagen claimed to have had a business case for the car, it wasn’t quite a done deal for the 7th generation Golf. VW is on track to sell 100,000 TDI cars this year, and thinks that the $27,000 GTD could account for 5-10 percent of diesel Golf sales. The GTD will go on sale in the summer of 2014."

Odds now? 

Can't do diesel. Drives are too short.

I love my 86!

I recently purchased my FR-S three months ago and it was my "upgrade" from my 2000 miata.



and of course my last car:


Car: 2000 Twilight Blue Mica with convenience package 
2000 NB Miata with convenience package
4.1 Torsen
Harddog HardTop Hardcore M2
Tein Flex with standard rates 7/6 kg
F1spec bucketseat
01+ projector style headlamps with HiDs
01+ Header
5zigen Border III exhaust
Big End Roders 15x8 +20 by Enkei Foundry wrapped in 205/50/15 Kumho XS

It's not the perfect car with the prius tires but its a real hoot to hoon around in and gets decent gas mileage. As soon as a got to my break in mileage at 1500mi i took it to a local drift event and had a blast. Definitely got the power bump i wanted that the miata never had and Just having a modern chassis this was the "miata" coupe i was looking for. I hope this car starts the new RWD car wars and hoping to see the new 240sx, RX-7 and of course a new miata. This car definitely is the target by those manufacturers and it'll be fun to see exciting cars coming from them.

I wanted to have a baseline with a stock car so the only thing I had on was 16x6.5 wrx wheels with some falken ziex as my drift spares in the back and the stockers on the front. Only adjustments made were whiteline camber bolts up front with an alignment of 1.5 and 1.7 on the passenger side trying to max them out. My buddy who did the alignment also gave a bit of toe out to prevent chunking of the stock tire.

My first drift impressions in this car are:

1. Donuts are much easier in this car than my previous NB miata. Power and throttle response was smooth.

2. Figure 8's just needed a touch of clutch kick and ebrake. Drift knob would've made the day much easier.

3. Big sweepers in 2nd gear were very snap oversteery with a bit of roll. 3rd gear needed alot more clutch to keep the revs up.

4. The steering feel was great for the donuts but the bigger drifts it was a bit floaty compared to the manual rack the miata had so counter steering needed getting used to. Needed smooth inputs to initiate but and rough counters to get the wheel at the right place.

5. Stock steering angle kinda sucks but it was the same way with the stock miata. I guess i was spoiled with the 240.

Power was great for donuts but i feel that the car needs that extra 50hp to keep the rear happier. But then again i was babying the car around the walls so it wasn't something a little more speed could fix once i get more confident.

Now my baseline is done the next event will see some suspension upgrades and some wider wheels.

Awesome! Makes me want an 86 baddddd now.

Being a huge Subaru fan, I've always worried about the "Subaru-ness" of the 86. Stock, it sounds pretty far off from a typical Subaru boxer. It sounds more like an inline engine than a boxer which worries me a little. I've heard that UEL headers can solve this, but until I hear it for myself, I'll remain a little skeptical.