It has been almost over a month since this years hottest sports car, Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ came out to the market.
TEIN USA has been developing products for these two cars to deliver our products to the customer as soon as possible.
I have been wondering what is the difference between FR-S and BRZ?
Exterior dimension, interior, engine, transmission, chassis and tire sizes are the same in between these cars.
But, when I drove BRZ that came in for development, I felt a big difference!
BRZ’s suspension are set as a mild setup, if you push harder it simply understeers and will not take you to oversteer motion.
But, the FR-S has an opposite character than the BRZ.
The FR-S has stiffer damper with softer spring. And if you know how to push hard, this simple, less electronically controlled device (compare to newer higher performance car) and fun to drive machine, it’s just pure fun to drive!
My conclusion is FR-S and BRZ are totally diffent set-ups
If you want to get pure driving pleasure go with FR-S, and if you want affordable yet nice, well-designed coupe go with BRZ.
And I will leave damper dyno chart (in .pdf format) for FR-S and BRZ for comparison.