NeoDiNardo
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World Rally Blue Pearl 2022 Subaru BRZ Limited 6-Speed Manual vs Liquid Carbon Metalic / Red 2023 Acura Integra A-Spec Tech 6-Speed Manual - Help!!
I’m currently carless, however, I do work at home and can Uber for food. For now anyway, however, it’s getting old fast. Yet I can hold out if I have to for something else. I just can’t properly live my life that way, get to the doctors or the gym as often ETC.
I can get the BRZ above tomorrow at a $5500 markup or wait for May for the Integra at MSRP. Both will run about the same money in the end as the cheaper BRZ is marked up ($40K or just under out the door) with the BRZ being a fair amount more upgradable, sporty, and faster (lighter, more HP even before aftermarket upgrades) the Integra being a fair amount more luxurious, safer with Acura Watch, and better on gas. Nicer stereo too.
The Integra is down in power and up in weight all while using the same engine from the Civic Si that was already down in power at a lower weight. And will the Acura suspension really be as tight as an Si or CTR or an upgraded BRZ? Or will it feel like a TLX non-Type-S, merely OK.
While the GR86/BRZ is a very known quality that is time tested fun, now with a bit more NA torque and power. And it’s going to be very fun to upgrade with all that after market support. A lack of stereo and driver aids though might kill the 2022 GR86/BRZ for me personally before the markups do. I do feel the 2022 GR86/BRZ is a nice car to have before it all goes electric.
Perhaps I should do nothing and just wait for more HP all around. Something like the GR Hot Hatch, the Type-R Civic, or the Type-S Integra. I just don’t trust the CTR to have a comfy seat. Those squishy seats and metal bars are a bad combo if you are a bigger person. And then you can’t tie your shoe hanging out the car with a metal bar in your seat side bolsters - completely unnecessary. Of course the Integra will have thebest seat comfort, perhaps the GR Hot Hatch too.
I’m currently carless, however, I do work at home and can Uber for food. For now anyway, however, it’s getting old fast. Yet I can hold out if I have to for something else. I just can’t properly live my life that way, get to the doctors or the gym as often ETC.
I can get the BRZ above tomorrow at a $5500 markup or wait for May for the Integra at MSRP. Both will run about the same money in the end as the cheaper BRZ is marked up ($40K or just under out the door) with the BRZ being a fair amount more upgradable, sporty, and faster (lighter, more HP even before aftermarket upgrades) the Integra being a fair amount more luxurious, safer with Acura Watch, and better on gas. Nicer stereo too.
The Integra is down in power and up in weight all while using the same engine from the Civic Si that was already down in power at a lower weight. And will the Acura suspension really be as tight as an Si or CTR or an upgraded BRZ? Or will it feel like a TLX non-Type-S, merely OK.
While the GR86/BRZ is a very known quality that is time tested fun, now with a bit more NA torque and power. And it’s going to be very fun to upgrade with all that after market support. A lack of stereo and driver aids though might kill the 2022 GR86/BRZ for me personally before the markups do. I do feel the 2022 GR86/BRZ is a nice car to have before it all goes electric.
Perhaps I should do nothing and just wait for more HP all around. Something like the GR Hot Hatch, the Type-R Civic, or the Type-S Integra. I just don’t trust the CTR to have a comfy seat. Those squishy seats and metal bars are a bad combo if you are a bigger person. And then you can’t tie your shoe hanging out the car with a metal bar in your seat side bolsters - completely unnecessary. Of course the Integra will have thebest seat comfort, perhaps the GR Hot Hatch too.
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