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Originally Posted by phloozy
I highly doubt they will offer the same car with almost a 50% power increase and not change the price. The WRX is a turbo impreza and the impreza starts at 18k.... If the brz sells for 27k WITHOUT a turbo they are not going to waste all the extra R&D and cost to sell a turbo version for 27k. 32,999 starting is my prediction if it ever even happens.
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Agreed. People want to compare the price of the WRX to the FRZ not remembering that the reason the WRX is so cheap is because it rides off the the Impreza chassis. It costs a lot to design a standalone chassis from scratch. It's not just the cost of building the car. Manufacturers have to take the R&D to develop the car and divide it across the entire life-cycle of the car and then add that to the cost. The WRX has low R&D cost for them because the majority of it also gets divided across the entire Impreza line. I can't imagine the FRZ was cheap to develop.