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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Nope you nailed it!
You are wasting your breath though since your target audience are just going to second guess the teams at Toyota and Subaru on every point. For some reason every person that got bored with the car knows exactly what it should have been and has a business plan to back it.
If they made the car to the standards that some would like it would be another $100K sports car lost is the shuffle with the rest of them and most would never have been able to touch it in the first place. Little do they know that the 8 year old cars they can afford are going to have all the issues that this one does and more. Hell some of them are worse than this brand new (look closely at a lower end Porsche interior). That will be OK though because it is a Porsche, Corvette, etc, etc.
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Yep. I touched on this in the 2017 BRZ thread, but there are way too many people who do not understand the incredible financial scrutiny that goes into making cars.
Gifting the BRZ with a unique components not shared across the Toyota/Subaru portfolio (chassis, engine and drivetrain) meant that concessions had to be made to keep the car both light *and* affordable.
There is an illustrative scene in the Ford Mustang development documentary "A Faster Horse". The team is going over the financials of the project and they end up going with a gasket that is 5 cents per unit cheaper because even though it's less durable or produces more NVH, when amortized over hundreds of thousands of vehicles, it frees up another $2 million in the budget to work on suspension tuning.
Those are the kind of trade-offs that the team had to make to offer you a compact, light weight, ultra-low COG, RWD, 2+2 car that still meets all regulations, passes crash tests and is affordable to the masses. Those are the sacrifices that are required when you go from Porsche Cayman budget to the Cayman for the every man budget.