Yeah. With a Subaru BRZ, the car sits really, really low to the ground. :O
So tired from car shopping all day today. In short, I ended buying a brand new Subaru BRZ Limited.
My MS3 was Carmaxed for $15k.
BRZ's MSRP $29k.
Got it for $26k and 1.6% APR on the loan.
Wife said "no" as soon as she sat in a MX5. I could NOT believe how Mazda didn't have a Bluetooth in a Club edition. We are 3 days away from year of 2014. Come on now.
Wife REALLY pushed me to get a M3, but more I thought about it, it didn't make sense. Sure, M3 was a BEAST. I really wanted to get it in the beginning. After researching on M3 forum, E9Xs were fairly reliable. But still a lot of people with high mileage were looking to purchase extended warranty for their cars. And BMW dealers apparently can't put a Certified on any M vehicles. I thought if I get a M3, the fun part of "Let the modding begin" wouldn't really be fun since basically every mod for M3 was expensive. So, I walked away.
Anyway, all I wanted was a new car that had these: RWD/6MT/Light/Aftermarket support.
And a BRZ made so much sense. The deal was already done through email. Everything was processed very fast. I highly recommend Noema @ Pacific Subaru in Torrance.
Noema/Her GM/Me took like 2 hours for my wife to finally say YES. On the way back home, I asked her what made her to change her mind. She just said I looked so freaking happy when I was test driving a BRZ with her.
I'll update this thread often as I have already planned everything that I want to do with it. Hopefully, I'll take it slow.
Here's a quickie pic. Will take some nice pics of it when I get to back to work next Thursday.
The car drives like heaven. It feels so fast even though it's slow on paper. The driving feel is just.. awesome. And I can't believe all the magazine tests were done in this shitty ass tire set. It's amazing how this car gets very respectable performance figures with these tires. I'll probably get a sticky tires very soon for the stock rims since the tires are cheap as heck. Love it.
Can't wait to drive this car.. everyday.
Thanks guys.