Over the past few years, its seems like more and more regular cars have multi-piston brake calipers like the new subaru impreza. 10 or 15years ago, even performance oriented cars didn’t frequently have those until you went pretty far up market. And it doesn’t seem like it is for marketing, since it isn’t often advertised. If single piston calipers were good for an audi s4, why does a new subaru impreza need multi-piston calipers? have there been developments in cost or technology?
Giant wheels, overly touchy/grabby brakes, over-sprung and under-damped suspension, there’s lots of attributes of modern “performance” cars that don’t do a damn thing for performance but people have somehow associated these visuals or feelings with it. Definitely makes me appreciate the approach Mazda took for the ND Miata in spite of all that