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Originally Posted by wbradley
Back on topic, sales will slow as many people who desire the vehicle will already have bought it. If economics allows for a next generation, it will hopefully motivate those people to trade up. It will also allow the designers to address what was missing that would have appealed to more buyers if they properly analyze consumer feedback. I think Scion should offer 2 spec levels like Subaru did but that might not sit well with Subaru. Maybe Subaru can launch a model with some sort of power enhancement, but not more than maybe 225 HP, perhaps an FA25.
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This always struck me as kinda strange as just about every other market in the world has at least two trim's for the 86. In Australia we have a GT poverty version, roughly in line with the FRS, and then a full cream heavly loaded (take it or leave it) spec'd GTS.
On that note the vast majority (I see on the road) are the GTS variant and on the other hand it's Subaru that went with a Mono spec here.
With the decline in sales I'd be interested in seeing how they manage that at the Gunma plant in Japan. Are they still making the same number of cars, and just shiping more to other countires, or are they cutting production and fitting other cars onto the line, like the more WRX's.