Review: 2013 Scion FR-S
It is undoubtedly a sports car, which was his intention, but it's bad because it comes to you unexpectedly.
Let's start with the basic concept Toyota wanted to offer reasonably priced, rear-drive sports car for its Scion division focused on youth, but did not want to go to the expense of developing tires up.
So he teamed up with another Japanese manufacturer, Subaru, who supplied the driveline and the twin brother spawned FR-S, Subaru calls the BRZ cars are identical, except for some adjustment differences styling and suspension .
This effort has produced first for Subaru manufacturers who specializes in all-wheel drive, its first sports car strictly rear-wheel drive Scion and Toyota got their first engine horizontally opposed, giving them a sporting machine with no engine configuration different from that used by Germany Porsche.
The horizontally opposed engine, it is also called a flat engine or boxer once was widely used by Volkswagen in its storied cars Beetle and Karmann-Ghia Subaru kept the flame alive, using the boxer throughout its range, and Porsche installs in his famous 911, Boxster and Cayman Boxster's name is a combination of boxer and roadster.
In a boxer engine, cylinder flat, feet on the feet, on both sides of the crankshaft, instead of bending or standing as in V or in-line engines Compact design minimizes vibration and allows provide a low center of gravity for better handling.
This is exactly how the FR-S was released Scion claims a lower center of gravity than the Porsche Cayman, which is a motor design with the engine behind the driver, but before the rear axle, however, the FR-S is a so-called front engine design, with the engine in front, but low and mounted to the rear FR-S stands for front-engine, rear-drive sports.
The result is a balanced handling, especially at speed around curves FR-S simply squatting down and tracks steering inputs, but is easily subject to change of attitude if the driver chooses to suspend the tail for the competition out, stability and traction control can be partially switched off.
Of course, as a sports coupe with 24,930 base price, the FR-S is nowhere in the same league as the Cayman, which starts at more than twice that price again, the FR-S is fully equipped, well many performance modifications are available.
However, based FR-S has its own appeal First, it is unique in the market with the exception of the Subaru BRZ, there are no direct competitors cars like the Volkswagen GTI and Mazdaspeed3 have a front wheel and in-line engines.
There's only one version FR-S elegant two-door coupe, designated as two plus two, which means it has a vestigial file suitable mainly for watermelons or backpacks Two smallish adults can actually squeeze in back as long as the driver and front passenger are ready to ram their seats before producing plenty of space strand knee and foot in the back.
So think of the FR-S mainly in two places with a space for extra luggage a good thing because the tiny trunk, shallow less than seven cubic feet of space.
It is only a motor with a 200 horsepower robust boxer 0 2 liters, coupled to a six-speed manual or automatic six-speed transmission with a manual shift operated mode pallets behind the wheel.
This is the wicked behavior, unexpected happens conventional wisdom among fans argued that the sports car manual transmissions are superior to the performance and the pleasure of automatics, sometimes derisively called black boxes.
On the FR-S, it is the polar opposite The manual transmission works well enough, although the change link has a somewhat clunky feel and the clutch is a little touchy with a motor that is short low-end torque, or twisting force, you frequently have to downshift to keep the engine in its beach happy power.
But the automatic does everything well, automatically, even to the point of blipping the throttle on downshifts to match the gas velocity relative to the speed of the motor It actually faster, energy transfers seamless, especially on a race track or autocross course.
In addition, this automatic swamps most aggressive manual on fuel economy The miles of the road to the gallon EPA city rating is 22 30 for the manual and automatic 25 34 So, it is the additional 1100 .
Inside, the FR-S support, front seat well padded reinforced high friction, suede fabric that hold the torso in fast driving, the correct ergonomic controls, except for audio systems, with their small buttons screens, and plenty of seating and steering adjustments to receive a major driver.
However, the dashboard has a cheap plastic insert simulated carbon fiber, although other surfaces are covered with vinyl soft texture visors, unfortunately, does not slip on the support rods to block the sun on the side.
The test car with automatic transmission and the option of BeSpoke premium audio system 340 watts, had a suggested price of 26875.
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