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Originally Posted by gtengr
Yep, I think we all see how Subaru was inconsistent in their documentation. That's a tangent discussion though, and doesn't factor that much into my opinion. There are plenty of new passenger cars on the road generating higher emissions than a twin with an aluminum intake, composite intake, tS package, etc.
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Yes, there are cars with higher emissions and that is irrelevant.
We are talking about the emissions that
this car was approved for in each country. It was approved at one level (no I do not know what that was) and as per the legal requirements it can not be built at levels above that without testing and recertification. The MTs and the tS obviously either did not exceed those approved levels or Toyota/Subaru felt it was worthwhile spending the millions involved to have them recertified but did not (as Ermax pointed out earlier in this thread) feel there was a business case to do the ATs.
The tuner mentality is that you can do whatever you wish to a car whenever you want to do it. The manufacturers can not work that way. They are tightly controlled and must play by the rules. A couple of decimal points off in an emission reading means make or break for them.