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Originally Posted by Prodigalson
Car & Driver article suggests that the HP discrepancy is due to NVH issues (as admittedly unlikely as it sounds):
Buyers who order an automatic transmission will have to make do with the previous 200-hp engine and 4.10:1 final drive; engineers tell us the automatic cars could not clear pass-by noise regulations during downshifts with the new engine. To our ears, the engines sound pretty much identical.
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews...aru-brz-review |
I'm trying to wrap my head around why the engine would have NVH issues simply from adding new in/ex manifolds and why it would only be a problem on the AT. Seems like a BS excuse to me.