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Old 02-10-2014, 03:04 PM   #421
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Interesting thanks. When Drive says "it could be a radically different car", I wonder if they just mean the rumored hybrid powerplant or they mean a radically different chassis as well.
Exactly, "radically different" to a design engineer may be only be "slightly different" to the rest of us.

To a person like Tada, changing out the 2.0L boxer for a 2.5L inline would make the 86 a "radically different" car. Often they speak of driving dynamics. Cars could look identical but throw another 40hp at it or modify the suspension settings and "on track" you have a "radically different" car.

He is being deliberately vague on purpose.
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