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Originally Posted by gily25
2 possibilities:
-Tada respectably can only speak about the Toyota brand for which he is responsible regardless of development partnerships.
-Toyota/Subaru partnership was only a limited engagement. Each got what they wanted and now with the cars having distinct groups of buyers they will split and develop the cars separately. We can already see this with the direction of the 10 and STI packages making their way to the market. If the cars were meant to always be identical there wouldn't be two unique packages.
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Look at it from a marketing standpoint, there has to be brand differentiation. The ts, is not an out and out STI BRZ, its
tuned by STI. And the differences with the 10 series are mostly aesthetic. Either way, my previous post about Toyota having to build a factory if they split still stands. That is a huge cost on top of all the R&D they already spent. A split is NOT in the works. Repeat after me. A split is NOT in the works.