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Old 10-27-2009, 09:19 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by zigzagz94 View Post
It was my understanding that Toyota was intent on building the FT-86 regardless of wether subie was going to release a version or not so the majority of the R&D cost are probably being paid for by toyota. The way I see it, if this 7tune report is true, as a bonus for building the FT-86 for toyota Subaru gets a wrx coupe for little to no cost of their own. All subie has to do is figure out a way to get their AWD system in the FT-86 shell which shouldn't be hard since they are the one's building the platform to begin with. I could be completely wrong though.
The problem lies with placing the engine directly over the front axle, something that is necessary for all Subaru AWD engines, and ther current design of the FT doesn't look like that's the case, especially if they're trying to make this a well balanced, agile, machine.
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