Exactly. Sort of how like Clarkson described the MP4-12c and 458. fun.
And the 80bhp smart roadster. What's your point?
So when I add my Tom's bolt ons to mine I will be considered one of these people completely missing the point of the car???
No, you'd just be an enthusiast modifying your car. If you want to go faster that's your own business, my point is that the car doesn't
need to be faster to be fun. To argue that Toyota/Subaru should have given the car more power is irrelevant as it was expressly not designed to be a performance car, it was designed to have fun in.
The first thing anyone does these days is moans that a car isn't fast enough, without considering that it doesn't need to be fast to be fun. If you want to go fast, there are plenty of other cars out there. If you want to have fun at safe, legal speeds, the choice is much narrower.
An original Lotus 7 had about 50bhp and still managed to be fun. A Lotus Elan S1 had about 110-115bhp and outhandles anything made before and most things made since. Less power than most economy cars these days but more fun than most supercars.
Likewise, grip. If people want to change the wheels and tyres to go quick on a circuit that's up to them, but Toyota deliberately went for narrow tyres so you can slide the car around at sane speeds, like an old MX5. Fitting fatter tyres might make you go around the next corner quicker, but the limit becomes far higher which means you need to be doing illegal speeds to feel like you're pushing the car.
All a
fun car needs is
enough power to overcome modest grip, unless you spend your life on a circuit.
