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The twins are still holding close to their anticipated/projected annual sales, 20,000 for the FRS and 8000 for the BRZ per year. Over the first 2 years of sales the FRS is slightly less and the BRZ slightly over. That's still good sales numbers. This will help keep this car in production.
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One thing many discuss this and that to bring up many features to compare & Vs the twin .... but then forget about the main difference of the twin is the Boxer Flat-4 engine w/ COG at the knee high and behind the front axle. "The physically of the twin" make the twin is a very unique DNA that why it has different handling and balance car. So if car out there is not from Subaru or Porsche then it is hard to achieve this layout to compare to the feel of this car. It might be closed but it's not exactly ! Here is my few main essential features listed in order that was the reason I bought this car for DD compare to so many others on the market.
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FR-S has a lower CG height. Prius has a lower Cd.
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^ At 18.1" is lower than many other combustion engine cars in this segment. Prius and many other hybrid cars have battery added to the layout which is a different class for comparison here. You can compare Prius to other hybrid cars.
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You can calculate this using the publicly available SSF figure of the Prius at 1.33. SSF = track width / (2 * CG) 2005 Prius: SSF = 1.33 track width = 58.8" CG height = 22.1" FR-S CG height = 18.1"
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I know twin has 18.1" cog which is below the knee . So twin has cog way lower than prius. I agree prius has lower Cd drag coefficient per data specs out there.
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Let me try again. I'm not talking about 86 specifically when it comes to engine configuration. I'm talking about cars in general. LFA with V10 has lower CoG than FR-S, but yeah it's 12 times more expensive. I'm just saying there are many ways for a car to achieve CoG without having boxer engine.
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Yeah, let me try again. In all those cases, the CoG would be lower if you did use a boxer engine instead. |
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Edit: Nevermind if we talk about combustion engine. Though not every car is designed to be applicable with boxer engine, thus not every car will get ideal CoG with Boxer.
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