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Originally Posted by JAAY
I couldn't agree with all you more. The truth is the car actually handles pretty close to a stock base boxster. I do not want to get into the drifting scene. Info that I have dug up says that you can fit a 225-235 up front a and 10" wheel with 275's in the rear.
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That sounds it would definitely need light wheels. Heavy anchors could easily ruin that car.
The FRS was not strictly marketed or designed to be a drift car. Obviously drifting is huge in Japan and the left coast so it had to be accessible to that camp otherwise they'd be leaving sales on the table unecessarily.
But if Toyota were looking to make a budget car squarely for drifting it would have been a very different outcome. The world's 2nd biggest car make can figure that out quiet easily and sell it for a steal. The FRS was more of a driver's exercise with an engine that allows you to use
all of the power all of the time vs. so many other sports cars where you only use a fraction of the available power for fear of ending up in the trees. For a race junkie that aspect has the same appeal as the Miata which is a fixture at every track day and autocross... and those drivers are typically not drifters.
It's going to be the new car for the Toyota Long Beach Celebrity crash fest. I might actually watch it this year.
