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I'm sure in 6 months, everyone will be in a better mood.

Anybody else in Seattle area? Won't be looking for our FL5 for a while yet, but would be cool to meet other owners, prospective owners, and generally fun car people in the area. You know, keep each other company until our cars show up, and then cruise around together! I think there are only 4...

It's odd to me that pricing and availability are such big deciding factors, considering that they're temporary. But what a car is, on the other hand, is not. And not to mention a compact sport hatch/sedan has never been a "need" car. So I can't really understand the urgency. An FL5 tomorrow or...

You bet there will absolutely be repos.

Acorns are bitches.

You can't really be mad about the FL5's scarcity when you didn't even try out the competition beforehand. How could you know how much you'd even want an FL5 if don't know how good the other options were? Depending on what you're actually looking for, if the FL5 really was the only car that...

Why do you need 12 doors in your garage when you have 4 people in your household?

My intuition is that early models are also subject to more abuse. Within the first model year, it's not uncommon for a car to go through two or more owners with different driving styles, maintenance, storage, etc. Buyers near the end of a model cycle are more likely to keep their cars longer...

Sorry you had to bounce around so much. I hate buying/selling cars, so in your situation, I would've just stuck with the Si in the first place. Glad the Teg worked out for you!

On the LC 500, a car that costs twice as much as an FL5, (and many other exotics) it's only a couple plugs that need to disconnect to keeps the exhaust valve open all the time. All you do is lift up the rear, pull the plugs, and tie them up somewhere so they don't get damaged/cooked/etc...

Thank you for the insight! Almost makes me feel like I'd just be better off enjoying my Evo. Kinda the best of both worlds, save for the lack of a hatch. GRC forum talked about this a lot. This wasn't a coordinated move between Toyota and Subaru...

Hmm... One option costs money and you'll have to wait. The other is free and you can do it right now. Not a hard choice if you ask me.

Great guide! I was very curious about this. PDI is kind of a joke these days. We picked up our MX-5 with 40 psi in all the tires and the tie-down plugs uninstalled. Might as well have done nothing at all, since I would've much preferred to take off all the plastics myself.

Cars like the 205 GTi basically invented the hot hatch genre. If the TG story is about the beginning and end of ICE hot hatches as we know it (and "coming full circle" or something), then it's a totally sensible comparison.

I'm in the same boat, but from the opposite direction. We bought our Evo stock for about $26k in 2018, but it stickered for--wait for it--$46,365 w/ destination back in 2014. That's about $54k in today's USD. And the thing is, I love our Evo so much that, had I not been a jobless child back in...

To really put the ita in it, wrap your FL5 with the image of an FK8. I'm sure that'll send a few people. @Kuhal

Your guests got to your place somehow, so they can probably get to where they need to go next too. Or they can sit in the trunk, I guess. That's how we justify having three two-seaters in our household, anyway.

I didn't see SFM's review mentioned earlier. I enjoyed it. The no-TPMS thing is kinda neat. I never knew about it before. We can fight about traps, drags, and track times all we want, but, at the end of the day: If you're tracking at all, pretty much everything goes out the window, because...

Looks like they have their own tracker now. Weirdly all the cars are on the east coast.

OP said the dealer kept the stock wheels :(