The New Subaru BRZ Is the Ideal Beginner Sports Car
The New Subaru BRZ Is the Ideal Beginner Sports Car
It’s your first new performance car. Nice smelling and reliable with a reassuringly long warranty. You won’t go broke if the A/C blows up instead of merely blowing, and it’s unlikely to break down and strand you on the side of the road. The Mazda MX-5 Miata or the four-cylinder Supra could be fine starter performance cars. But the ideal way to start your performance driving career right is the freshly fortified, second-generation 2022 Subaru BRZ. It’s even a better choice than its Toyota-branded, nearly-identical cousin, the GR 86. The New Subaru BRZ Is the Ideal Beginner Sports Car.
At the core of this new BRZ’s evolution is a 2.4-liter boxer-four making 228 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of peak torque. That’s up 23-horses 28 lb-ft from the 2.0-liter base boxer engine used in the 2020 edition. That means there’s now enough grount to match the car’s excellent chassis. The New Subaru BRZ Is the Ideal Beginner Sports Car.
The additional ponies and twist were exactly what the BRZ needed from the beginning. Sorry, it’s not the turbo-powered BRZ STI of so many Subie fantasies, but for a starting price of $28,995, it can’t realistically be that. Where the old car would bog down coming out of corners, this one pounces with a stab of the throttle. The torque curve is fatter, easier to exploit and overall more fun. It gets more out of the chassis and the revised chassis has more to give. The New Subaru BRZ Is the Ideal Beginner Sports Car.
Beyond that, nothing jacks up insurance premiums like the word “Turbo” associated with a sports coupe. Just be grateful there’s still a two-seat, rear-drive performance car that starts at less than $30K.
Subaru has stiffened the unibody with a redesigned structure and longer, more generous welds to decrease flex. Meanwhile the first-generation’s steel front fenders and roof have been replaced by aluminum units to decrease weight and lower the already notoriously low center of gravity.
And the new BRZ is slightly larger than the previous one growing to 167.9-inches long overall (up less than an inch) and with a 101.4-inch wheelbase that’s 2/10ths of an inch longer. It’s still a tiny machine with a fender height that comes up to most drivers’ hips and a roof low enough to make a good lunchtime eating surface. Weight is up only incrementally rising from the base, manual transmission 2020 edition’s 2798-pounds to 2815-pounds for 2022.
So The New Subaru BRZ Is the Ideal Beginner Sports Car.
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