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Originally Posted by DAEMANO

That all sounds good, but you didn't discuss fuel economy and I can see why... Subaru's 2.0L Direct Injection Turbo gets 23city/28hwy MPG and is only that "good" because it's mated to a CVT. Subaru suggests a 19% increase in fuel economy directly due to the CVT itself. so we're looking more like 19city/24hwy MPG at best with a manual transmission on premium fuel only. Fuel economy has always been one of the many downsides of turbocharging and it remains. The HP and TQ gains are not free.

Oh, Im sorry. I thought we were talking about high performance engines/models, if you want to compromise with fuel economy may I suggest the basic FA20? The brz would probably get over 20/26 with the engines outputs being increased over 50%, 2015 the earliest. When it comes to power you have to pay to play.

Turbos are economical on ranges of (nonperformance) models, you are just ignoring them.