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Old 06-20-2021, 11:27 PM   #151
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I have no dog in this fight, I've never owned one... but...

I mean like... everything you said here is wrong. Are you sure you're not confusing his car with the first gen (or third gen) MR2? The SW20 was an excellent platform, and I would even go so far as to say the late model Turbo JDM revisions actually put it on par with the FD and NSX, making it easily the most underrated of the 90's JDM sports cars. It's a monster car in a proper driver's hands, and better than the S2000 (also a great car though).
It's just a but hurt retaliatory comment for a comeback. The FT-1 concept was nice and the wheel base looks like it would have matched the wheelbase of the Lexus LC.

The A90 Supra looks like they took a BMW Z3 and stuck the FT1 nose on it, then what ever randomly sourced body panel would fit. It looks like one of those Fiero kit cars that looks like a super deformed Chibi version of what it was supposed to be.

Those SW20s are nice:
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Old 06-21-2021, 11:34 AM   #152
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I had been looking at those SW20's when I was also looking for an s2k. but I gave a motorcycle a shot instead... Would be cool to see a factory reboot of the MR...
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Old 06-21-2021, 02:45 PM   #153
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It's just a but hurt retaliatory comment for a comeback. The FT-1 concept was nice and the wheel base looks like it would have matched the wheelbase of the Lexus LC.

The A90 Supra looks like they took a BMW Z3 and stuck the FT1 nose on it, then what ever randomly sourced body panel would fit. It looks like one of those Fiero kit cars that looks like a super deformed Chibi version of what it was supposed to be.

Those SW20s are nice:
My 1993 MR2 Turbo was red like this and it was the last car I ever owned with single stage paint.
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Old 06-22-2021, 11:44 AM   #154
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It's just a but hurt retaliatory comment for a comeback. The FT-1 concept was nice and the wheel base looks like it would have matched the wheelbase of the Lexus LC.

The A90 Supra looks like they took a BMW Z3 and stuck the FT1 nose on it, then what ever randomly sourced body panel would fit. It looks like one of those Fiero kit cars that looks like a super deformed Chibi version of what it was supposed to be.

Those SW20s are nice:
That's the thing about appearance it's all subjective. In person I find the A90 Supra and great looking car. I've gotten more compliments and thumbs up on it from ages 10-70 than I have for any of my other sports or sporty cars. Talking car guys, kids, middle aged moms in suv's with kids in the back at the gas station, geriatric in a Buick, etc.
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Old 06-22-2021, 12:00 PM   #155
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That's the thing about appearance it's all subjective. In person I find the A90 Supra and great looking car. I've gotten more compliments and thumbs up on it from ages 10-70 than I have for any of my other sports or sporty cars. Talking car guys, kids, middle aged moms in suv's with kids in the back at the gas station, geriatric in a Buick, etc.
I had the exact same responses in my stock 2013 BRZ Limited. This was back in 2013 when I decided to drive it from Alaska to a bunch of other states just to visit friends and family and go on a cruise. I'd get questions, looks, compliments, reactions, thumbs up, etc. from all demographics, including police officers.

One time back in Alaska a random, older woman rolled her window down next to me just to tell me my car was beautiful. And another time I watched an older woman slowly pull up in a parking spot next to my passenger side and after she got out she said to me, "I was trying to be careful with how I parked because I thought to myself, 'Oh he'd be really mad at me if I accidentally scratched his beautiful car.'" And she was exactly right because I was watching her slowly pull up and thought, "Man, this will suck if she parks too close and hits my passenger door."

Then I'd come on here and car guys would be like, "Man, the BRZ is pretty ugly. That FR-S though!" And I was one of them.
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Old 06-22-2021, 07:42 PM   #156
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My old Toyota Celica got a lot of positive reactions from strangers. It was my first car ever, a 2000 model year that I bought in 2010. People always told me it looked cool/fast and would ask me what it is. Every now and then someone would comment about how it looks way cooler than they'd imagine a Toyota to look.

Of course, it was anything but fast. It had some great characteristics - it was low, wide (or rather, it looked wide, relative to its how low and sleek it was), and light/easily tossable, all great qualities you want in a car, then they threw that anemic torqueless motor into it

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Old 06-22-2021, 07:47 PM   #157
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Old 06-23-2021, 12:04 AM   #158
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Nobody who owns and drives a Fiesta should be talking about pieces of ****.
Hahaha, what? I've had one since 2014, and have had zero issues. Literally none. Oil change, wash, repeat. Sure it looks like a jelly bean, but it's far from a POS. My previous WRX had more issues in less time.
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Old 06-23-2021, 11:42 AM   #159
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I watched that dog one at least four times.
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Old 06-24-2021, 03:01 PM   #160
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My old Toyota Celica got a lot of positive reactions from strangers. It was my first car ever, a 2000 model year that I bought in 2010. People always told me it looked cool/fast and would ask me what it is. Every now and then someone would comment about how it looks way cooler than they'd imagine a Toyota to look.

Of course, it was anything but fast. It had some great characteristics - it was low, wide (or rather, it looked wide, relative to its how low and sleek it was), and light/easily tossable, all great qualities you want in a car, then they threw that anemic torqueless motor into it

Surprised you still got that reaction that far into it's life.

I do remember being blown away by it the first time I saw one in like 1999. I was in the parking lot my first time going to a kickboxing gym and there was a silver one. I remember walking all around it, the design was absolutely wild for a sport compact.
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Old 06-25-2021, 10:34 AM   #161
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I remember this rich girl in my highschool had that last generation Celica, with a manual (credit to her). It was a GT, not a GT-S, but 16 year old me figured a Celica was like a Mustang, with the GT being the good one.
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