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07-14-2013, 09:50 PM | #29 |
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At my shop we deal with a couple of Subaru dealerships, one of the sales managers at one of these dealerships was telling me he has 5 BRZ turbos on order for MY2014.
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My sales guy pointed at those and said "and those are the two superchargers this car comes with. pretty sweet, eh?" |
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And if the Subaru/Toyota partnership was 'cancelled', the twins would have been discontinued lol. |
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I'm curious to see what the teaming agreement actually says. Is there a copy of it floating around the internet somewhere?
I've worked on similar agreements, and there's a lot of variety with how they work. It's almost certain that if this agreement were to end, the FA20 would as well, because I really doubt that Toyota would just give away their direct injection. Since the FA20T is available with Subaru direct injection in other Subaru models, I'd imagine that Subaru has full ownership of the rest of the engine design, but they might be paying royalties to Toyota depending on how the agreement works. Some teaming agreements are "Anything developed under it can be used by either company in the future", others are a lot more restrictive and require permission from (or royalties to) the other company for use of co-developed tech. There are also probably some specific pieces of technology that one company is retaining ownership of - i.e. Toyota bringing direct injection, Subaru bringing a Boxer layout. There's a whole world of patents and intellectual property that goes into something like this. I'm also curious if this is a one-off teaming agreement, or if there are future plans for more Toyota-Subaru models.
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Its not like he was even lying to me to try to get a sale. Ive owned my car for over a year and he told me this a few days ago. Ive known him for a few years now from work. He honestly believes he will be getting 5 turbo BRZs in the next few months.
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Take anything you hear from a dealership with a Morton factory of salt.
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Someone told him a fib, Subaru isn't going to make a turbo version. |
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It be pretty dumb of toyota to end a partnership for a car thats actually doing well and saving scion, one year worth of cars probably wont recoupe 5 years development cost, and with subaru manufacturing them toyota probably only gets a small cut. Not sure about how sharing the tech will work after break up, cause i thought i read somewhere that bmw/toyota parntership will use some of the chassis for there up comming car but that could be bs from some writer... This partnership wont end not when toyot owns 16 percent of subie.
Shit someone put down some money on one of those turbo brzs, i dont know where he dealership is but i will paypal you the deposit money. I dont want the awd one though. |
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