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Old 01-27-2018, 01:00 AM   #206
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Originally Posted by yurikaze View Post
I noticed that all the WRX RA’s being used have 000/000 numberplates, so it could be possible that these are meant to be disposed of after they’ve been wrung out by all the journalists. This is a fate that happens to a lot of press cars. There’s a salvage yard in southeast LA that ends up crushing most of the west coast press fleets.
Out of curiousity I pulled some VINs on Subaru’s Auction list and a lot of them were owned by Subaru of America. I’ve seen pre-production cars and they do not have a 17-digit VIN.

For the Type RA, I feel like they could just swap out the piece surrounding the shift knob with an actual # in the sequence and nobody would ever know it was a press car (although a CarFax would show “Fleet Vehicle.”) That’s assuming these are cars with a 17-digit VIN...

Those White tS’s we see from photos of car shows and the press drive all have 17-digit VINs with the same VIN-schematic as BRZ’s since the ‘13 Model. They were made in the end of August they arrived in New Jersey mid-November haha.

There’s over 10 of these, the majority being White.
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