[Gforce]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

I'm suggesting most buyers don't give a damn. That is, they bought the car as is to drive as is.


Do people have to recite Pascal's law to use the brakes?
Once again I'm suggesting most people don't know and don't care.
80 percent of BMW 1-Series owners think their car is front-wheel drive

You don't seem to appreciate what "compromise" means.

And yet Subaru now sells a much better car for the same price.

Since sales of these cars have not met expectations to date one wonders how sales would have gone had Subaru (well, given Subaru's penchant for superb engineering and the suspension differences on launch I suspect it was actually Toyota's marketing error) built the correct version from launch.

There was no financial savings potential in issuing the first series of cars with the wrong springs. Now not changing the rear subframe from that used in the Impreza saved a bundle. But turning an awd chassis into a proper handling rwd chassis without changing the rear subframe, that has proved to be impossible. Unsurprisingly when you consider the physics.