What followed was maybe one of the most enjoyable drives I’ve ever had, easily an all-time top five anyways. There was nothing else in my mind except the car and the road ahead of me. Watching the adaptive headlights swivel back and forth through the twisty corners which meander down the hill, across old bridges and around tight hairpin bends, I was experiencing absolute joy of machine. I might have only been doing two thirds the speed I could do in Project GTI on the same stretch of road, but I was having to work twice as hard to do it.
I was driving.
I was recently scolded in the comments section for bringing up the fact that a GT86 is chronically underpowered from factory. I’m not wrong, they are, but like the MX-5, that’s not the point of the car, which I’m well aware of. This experience only served as a reminder that it’s infinitely more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.
Less is definitely more.