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Originally Posted by Wise
I don't think Scion has much say in powerplant development. They may have a hotline to what's happening in Japan, but all they can do is show sales figures and make a case for more power. The decision rests with the bean counters at Toyota though.
Popular opinion is that if the car was going to have a turbo variant it would have been released by now or at least announced. It's a little too late into this car's life cycle to introduce a different powerplant.
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Weren't the bean counters the ones who nearly killed the '12 Civic with their inexpensive hard Hyundai-esque interior plastics. It's nice that Akio Toyoda realized the Toyota line up was boring & without passion allowing him to usher the 86 project & the team up with BMW for a new sports car but where does the blame lie? Is the 200hp ceiling because the bean counters thought this would be profitable or the Subaru engineers with their initial lackluster support wanted to flex their muscle (like when they killed any hopes of the 86 convertible)?