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Originally Posted by Dimman
The 'lightly' is meant to be inflammatory.
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^ You missed this one. It's a bit relevant. Heh...
And I'm not sure you are fully grasping what I'm saying with regards to the FM.
This oversimplification seems required when 'proof' of not being correct on chassis sharing is offered by way of ground clearance and CoG figures, for fuck sakes...
So the explanation ends up: FM shared chassis = all these cars. Most similar of compared shared chassis Nissans to BRZ/Impreza are G Coupe/G Sedan. Exact, no. But out of the examples, the best.
Onto the Supra example, of course the rest of the parts are the same. That is the point. It's the exact same car, yet there are parts that don't direct swap. This reinforces what I've explained with regards to chassis architecture and shared platforms. If identical vehicles have different not direct swap engines, does that make it less the same because a G Sedan and G Coupe do direct swap?
The FX35 isn't a mildly modified 350Z FM, they were designed from the beginning to share parts, a platform.
The design requirements for the FM were dictated, and always are, by the heaviest intended design and all optional components. This is one of the reasons the 350Z isn't as light as it could be. So in actuality the 350Z sort of IS a lightly modified FX45 with the V8 and AWD. But the primary architecture is shared. This is the same thing with the BRZ and Impreza, only less extreme. Same motor family, suspension architecture, brake architecture, structure of the floor pan and unibody architecture, blah, blah, blah...
The whole point of this was to refute the 'not an Impreza based car' claim. It unquestionably is Impreza based and we've known this for 5 years.
Some related reading by 'Chubby Cheddar':
http://m.caranddriver.com/columns/pl...ummies-feature