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Originally Posted by tomm.brz
Every single, manual and auto, BRZ and GT86 sold in Europe has no red manifold or 5 HP increase, they all are identical to USDM Automatic
they don t need to forcely sell underpowered Automatic cars to use up existing stocks.
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This ^ The answer is simple and has nothing to do with marketing. The EU spec cars did not get the changes because they could not meet emission control requirements there. The AT did not get the changes anyplace else for the same reason. There is a whole write up on here someplace from when the changes happened.