Road Test: 2013 Subaru BRZ by Litchfield Motors - GTspirit
A Japanese sports car developed in conjunction with Toyota and Scion and sold on the market under the name GT86, FR-S and BRZ with the three cars being differentiated by barely more than badging, wheels and the shape of their radiator grilles. The purist sports car is the latest from Asia and available to us for a drive test at Litchfield Motors, one of the first tuners selling upgrades. The Subaru BRZ is a sports car built the way sports cars used to be built: lightweight, visually appealing, near surgical steering precision and rear-wheel drive. It’s clearly not the fastest, the most powerful, nor even the sexiest two-door coupe in the business, but somehow it has the ability to share its sheer driving pleasure in a way not many cars are able to. Everything is focused on the joy of... This means that our tester was fitted with a 2. 0 liter direct injection petrol engine in the nose producing a stock performance of 197bhp and 205Nm. The available transmissions are either a six-speed automatic or six-speed manual gearbox. The BRZ awaiting our arrival at the farm located between Cheltenham and Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire was not a stock version available via the local Subaru importer, but a right-hand drive model used by Litchfield Motors in the UK as their... The technical upgrades already fitted to the car featured the Litchfield Stage 1 ECU remap (+14bhp) and a more prominent sounding Milltek performance exhaust system (+11bhp). Source: gtspirit.com
