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Originally Posted by SlowButFun
1- it's not powerful enough to hang with many cars costing about the same price (or less), and that it doesn't even garner a recommended rating from Consumer Reports due to poor reliability.
2-I owned an FR-S. I took a bath on it when I traded it I for a vehicle that didn't cost significantly more despite being many levels better in terms of performance, power and even refinement and utility.
3-The reason I weighed in on why sales of the Twins are tumbling is because it puzzles me that Toyota & Subaru won't do the one, easy, inexpensive thing that the Twins ABSOLUTELY SHOUT OUT FOR, and would probably double their sales: Add 40 to 50 horsepower & approximately 40 lbs feet of torque.
54-The one really bad move was sourcing the boxer motor from Subaru. It's not as if Toyota doesn't have way more technical expertise designing & building engines vs Subaru.
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From what I can tell, the only issue is that you bought the wrong car for you.
Item #1-The Freudian use of "Hang with" in relation to a peer group, tells me that you have issues with how others perceive your masculinity. The FRS is certainly not a penis pump and if you bought it under that expectation, you made a mistake.
Item #2 -So you have lots of money and make bad financial decisions. Not the car's fault. Wish I had your money to burn. I am more of a "Make your bed and sleep in it" kind of person.
Item #3 -If you cant follow the chain of reason how 50 extra horses would make for a smaller market for this car, then you obviously know very little about automotive project costing and how the market was defined by Toyota and Subaru. Had 50 extra HP been a requirement at the start of the project, the trickle down cost in design,reliability testing, manufacturing, sales cost, insurance, and cost to operate would actually make for a smaller market size, NOT larger. Trust me, a lot of thought was put into this by people who know what they are doing.
Item #4 -I fully agree. Subaru flat 4's are not something I will ever come to like. I also wont be buying Subarus in the future.