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Originally Posted by SirBrass
FA20DIT is too tall to fit into the BRZ. You'd have to do significant relocation of parts and then you'd essentially just end up with an FA20 block with lots of custom fabrication to make the DIT model fit into the BRZ.
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the FA20DIT block is the same as the FA20 except starter location and, its just pumbing. It would cost Subaru minimal to drop it in, engineering work probably already done.
If Subaru and Toyota split, I would see scion dropped (or 4 door only) and Subaru turbo coupe sales soaring. With the cost differentil there is little point in keeping the FA20 in th BRZ, its minimal. Its really all one big company almost anyway.
The FRS+BZ sales are over 40k this year and I doubt that would have been different had the frs not been offered.
These sales could turn this car into the civic of the 90's (especially with the planned 4 door). Markets/leading companies change. Don't be surprised if Toyota has long term plans to take Subaru past Honda.
The Japanese are making big changes, they have too with multiple million Koreans sold the last 10 years. Those sales were mostly lost to domestics, but to the Japanese they few them as sales they could have had.