Posted Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 10:24pm
Once plentiful, the affordable sports car is now an endangered species. If you’re of a certain age, you’ve seen this movie before: in the 1970s, there were all sorts of fun and interesting machines from the 240Z to the MGB, and then they just sort of died out in an explosion of bigger, more luxurious offerings. Electrification doesn’t mean an end to performance, but it does mean bigger, heavier, and more expensive. Figuring it was basically the last chance to get into something rear-wheel-drive with a proper manual gearbox, I ordered a Subaru BRZ in the winter of 2021, and have now spent a year with it. Here’s how it went.
