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Old 10-04-2013, 01:34 PM   #84
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Also when I bought this car everyone on here said this was a Toyota built transmission, people here and online reviewers were saying this is the best manual transmission short of BMW.

First the main casting of the tranny says "Subaru" and it is far from any BMW I've owned, how could so many have been so far off base?
All transmissions between variants are identical regardless of badge, they are all built by Aisin who builds/built transmissions for the following: Ford, Mazda, Volvo, Chrysler, Toyota, Alfa Romeo, Porsche*

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aisin_transmissions"]List of Aisin transmissions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

*Proof: http://www.aisin-ai.co.jp/english/news/20040916.html
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