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Originally Posted by HunterGreene
I think the more likely issue is that Toyota didn't do their due diligence with testing and never imported any American gasoline blends to test the car with.
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Toyota and Subaru rigorously test all their cars in America like just about every other manufacturer who sells a high volume here, primarily testing high heat scenarios in the Southern California desert (doesn't get much hotter than Death Valley).
Why would they spend thousands of dollars importing fuel blends from around the world when they can just ship a couple test cars to certain locations? I also remember some statements that the suspension was actually tuned by region, so our FR-S probably has a different setup than the GT-86, not a huge difference but there's different parts in there.
Five bucks says the engineers shrug it off, it's only a noise after all, the PR team probably forced a fix to retain "legendary reliability".