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Originally Posted by A Gomez
As I understand it, the idea of the car was discussed and then scrapped. Then Subaru came to Toyota with their first Legacy based prototype they built and Toyota jumped on board. The project makes a lot of sense for Subaru and I think they were very excited to do it. The DI technology alone was a deal maker for them business wise. Not to mention that this is basically a stepping stone to the next wrx/sti platform.
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Story is backwards, i think it was Toyota that had to convince Subaru brass of the viability of the project.
I mean th FT86 CAME from Toyota in after all......
Im pretty sure Subaru had nothing to do with it until after the first FT86 concept.