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Originally Posted by RabidRat
Congrats! What tipped you over to the BRZ vs the GR86?
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BRZ is more widely available in Canada vs the GR86 - in the US it seems to be the reverse. GR86 carries a 3-4K premium over a BRZ here in Canada, for similar year/KM. Another very annoying thing - you can't get the GR86 Performance Package in Canada (Brembo brakes, Sachs dampers) without ponying up for a special edition (Hakone, Yuzu) which carries another 3-4k premium for essentially exclusive colour whereas the same items are available as a regular trim (tS) for Subaru. So a similar car would have been at least 5-6K more expensive in Toyota guise.
BRZ suspension is also tuned better (IMO) than the GR86. GR86 has a stiffer rear, which is much looser (easier to oversteer), and it is stiffer sprung for day-to-day driving, whereas the BRZ is more neutral-to-understeer, and more comfortable for day-to-day driving. Also, the BRZ throttle map is far more linear than GR86 - the GR86 is at WOT when your pedal is at 40% travel. It makes it seem "peppier", but it is harder to control on track/performance driving as your useful pedal travel is really 0-40% not 0-100%
Lastly, this was a CPO 2024 for a great deal, only had 4700KM when I bought it. And with the car being a Subaru platform, I trust Subaru techs more than Toyota techs if I had to get it dealt with under warranty (and apparently Toyota is hard to deal with regarding warranty work if you track your car, modded or not - they denied someone warranty for hitting redline [in the US]). The only Toyota things about this car are the transmission (Aisin) and the D4S injection system. Everything else screams Subaru!
TL;DR, Subaru platform, why get it badged as a Toyota?