At one point in late 2012, I was pretty hot and heavy that this was going to be my next car. I'm in my early 40's, and have always been a car guy, but never able to justify something that performed. Practical and useful always ruled.
This sounded ideal - build myself (sounds enjoyable), fairly inexpensive (drop $25-30K initially, with final costs up to about $40K), factory interior so it can be a daily driver (requirement for me), and performance to equal something running twice as much or more (WOW!).
For me, increasing the price to add some of the great stuff the SLC has would've been a deal breaker. I needed the fun, inexpensive, daily driver.
Note that I say needed - past tense. Since the Apex was delayed, and I decided it probably wasn't realistic to expect to have the time to build it, I went a different direction.
I got a Scion FR-S. $26K, handles better than anything I've had, gets 31mpg, light and nimble, fun. So far I'm loving it.
It seems like the Apex could fill a niche similar to the FR-S/BRZ. Less $ than others with similar performance, but still fun enough to be worthwhile.
Perhaps a few years down the road, I will be back looking at building something again - be it Apex, SLC, or ????? I still check in here fairly often, it's still exciting to see all the cool builds going on.
This sounded ideal - build myself (sounds enjoyable), fairly inexpensive (drop $25-30K initially, with final costs up to about $40K), factory interior so it can be a daily driver (requirement for me), and performance to equal something running twice as much or more (WOW!).
For me, increasing the price to add some of the great stuff the SLC has would've been a deal breaker. I needed the fun, inexpensive, daily driver.
Note that I say needed - past tense. Since the Apex was delayed, and I decided it probably wasn't realistic to expect to have the time to build it, I went a different direction.
I got a Scion FR-S. $26K, handles better than anything I've had, gets 31mpg, light and nimble, fun. So far I'm loving it.
It seems like the Apex could fill a niche similar to the FR-S/BRZ. Less $ than others with similar performance, but still fun enough to be worthwhile.
Perhaps a few years down the road, I will be back looking at building something again - be it Apex, SLC, or ????? I still check in here fairly often, it's still exciting to see all the cool builds going on.