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Originally Posted by alan.chalkley
If Subaru have the idea that the BRZ is just a bridge to the new WRX , then they need to make a better WRX/STI.
Orders for the new WRX are few and far between here down under in Aus.
The BRZ is still selling out fast.
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I think while there might be some Subaru fans around who see some kind of kindred spirit between the BRZ and the Impreza, there are likely more of us who see them as diametrically opposed, the Impreza being a massive tank of a car that really doesn't go anywhere near the sports car idea other than the fact that it has lots of horsepower. You could go the same way and suggest that the Corvette is similar to the Impala, when I think most Corvette owners would probably kick your ass for suggesting it.
That said, I can't immediately discount the OP with the premise, despite the success of Clint@Heuburger, I can count on one hand the number of 86's I've seen on the roads in Silicon Valley, and it's far less than there were Celica's two years after it's release. It's a reason why Toyota doesn't make sports cars, they just can't compare to the demand of your average econobox that suits a much larger role and a much larger group of people. And when a car company stops making sports cars, they stop innovating, which is probably why Toyota got into racing, so their R&D people would have something to put into the next generation of econoboxes. That does not however feed very well into making sports cars more generally popular.