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Originally Posted by chulooz
Did you know the 86 chassis is moderately based off a legacy platform and shares parts with the impreza, and its FA was designed off subaru's FB? Because it does.
Though your main point is spot on, the WRX is subaru's profit maker because of its bloodline.
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Yes I did. but while they borrowed as much as they can it's still unique and had to redesigned (the chassis). Same goes for the FA, as based off the FB as it is it was still gone thru and re-engineered. That cost money.
The 86 is "hacked together" from subaru bits, borrowed from the catalog where possible, absolutely, but after they figured out what could be borrowed they had to sit down and re-engineer everything to work properly, be a balanced and low as possible and as light as possible. That's not cheap. If the car was an assortment of bits without any hard engineering it wouldn't have taken nearly as long to get to market.