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Old 04-19-2012, 02:12 PM   #24
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Also, can we please stop the pissing contest as to who's car this is? It's the same effing car. It's as much Toyota as it is Subaru. Yes... It was built at a Subaru plant, but so are most Camary's in North america, and technically Toyota owns about half of Subaru, so that means half of Subaru's input is Toyota.

The Car contains Subaru parts, that Toyota helped engineer, as well as Toyota's DI technology, and styling. If you love the car for it's look.. guess what that's mostly Toyota's input. If it were designed by Subaru completely it would be heavier, AWD, have a higher center of gravity, and look like a refrigerator box on wheels.

Actually Toyota only owns 16.5% of Fuji heavy industry (Subaru) far from 1/2. The direct injection and transmission is from Toyota and that's about it in terms of mechanicals of the car. Design wise both models are 90% the same so I wouldn't say it's more Toyota or Subaru. Heck Ferraris are designed by Pininfarina does that mean all Ferraris are Pininfarina? It's like when Dodge was selling rebadged Mitsubishi Eclipse as Eagle Talon. I'd rather buy the Mitsubishi version.
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