ThreeD

Wow, that was fast. Congrats! Totally understand wanting a slightly more practical and comfortable daily driver for the family. You're lucky the trade ins in TX help you on your sales tax (I think). Here in CA you'd be eating the full sales tax each time!

Also another con to the DE5/FL5: no working hand brake. Difficult to turn off VSA. It would be a fun little rally car with a hydro or a real hand brake setup.

SlowTeg

Very cool and the same reason I'll probably get an ITS one day. Your stable of cars is quite impressive! It's a roomy sedan and still fun for everyday driving. Not sure how it works in Texas but you'd be getting screwed here in VA with sales tax on each purchase as well as car tax for each car. It really disincentivizes changing cars and more expensive cars for me.

QUIKAG

Not really, I wanted a fun to drive sedan that was reliable. The two best (reasonable price!) sedans/hot hatches in the category (IMHO) are the GR and the Integra/Civic DE5/FL5. So, when I determined the interior space/cargo storage wasn't going to be tenable for out of town trips with my family of 4 and I could get almost all my money back out of the GR and get a slight discount on the ITS, I made the jump.

In Texas, you only pay the 6.25% auto sales tax on the difference between the value of your trade-in and the purchase price of the new car, so that makes the transaction cost on car sales a little more bearable.

JonBoy

You definitely have a disease. I wish I had the same disease.

clutchcargo

Congratulations times 2
You have the Caddy and the Tesla
The decision driver related to the limitations wrt the Toyota being a family hauler are this confusing

WolfpackS2k

Can't (as easily) take a weekend trip with a Tesla.

QUIKAG

Don't want tons of miles on the Caddy as I want to keep it forever (hopefully!) and the Tesla is a bit of hassle on road trips especially with two young boys. It's ideal for around DFW and just charging at the house once or twice a week. Already have 11,000 miles on it in 10 months. It's been great.

vader1

Cool. I am REALLY interested in your feedback. I will probably PM you with a few specific questions about this new ride versus the BRZ as daily fun if you are so obliged. Enjoy!

QUIKAG

Woohoo!

https://www.roadandtrack.com/reviews...r-winner-2024/

TheDonEffect

Interesting that it beat out the CTR as well...