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From what I've read, Subaru's tuning will likely result in slightly better lap times and stability, and Toyota's tuning will result in a slightly more "playful" demeanor.
Given that the vast majority of my driving will be on public roads, and when I hot-shoe it I will, for safety's sake, be more like 8/10ths instead of 10/10ths, I think I'll prefer the Subaru's settings. Just a little bit of safety net built in for when there's some extra dust on the road that I'm not anticipating, etc. The reviews have said that it's quite easy to transition to oversteer with the Subaru, so I doubt there will be any issue of "losing fun."
Stability control and traction control go "off" when I play. I've never had either of them "save" me and have been driving powerful rear wheel drive cars for years, many times in snowy conditions. They're great for drivers who don't care about driving and just want some additional security, and they're great in panic situations like having to swerve away from a deer or somebody who wandered into your lane on the highway. Thus I leave them on when I'm doing everyday things.
Basically, Toyota/Scion have tuned the car to appeal to the drift generation...to which I do not belong. The car has a slight front weight bias, it SHOULD have a small amount of steady-state understeer. Tuning it to oversteer leads me to believe that a bit of overall grip was given up to do so.
Subaru has done what they always do for their performance cars. They've tuned it to reliably go fast as hell in a variety of conditions, with a little bit of safety net built in because in the real world you never know the exact amount of dust or moisture on the road. That comes from their long history of rally racing, and that kind of tuning produces a faster more stable vehicle in real world conditions.....
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