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Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k
While that's all true, the K20A engine is seen by many people to be superior to the F20/22C engines. And that engine was built for a considerably lower price bracket. For all intents and purposes it was built for the same market level as the FA20. And is a better engine despite being 10+ years older than the FA20. But that's another conversation...
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Well I suppose we could debate about this 'till the cows come home, but I'm not sure what we'd be debating. It's not like Honda has the only team of super smart engineers and Subaru has a bunch of dunces in lab coats. Most of it comes down to cost & constraints - i.e. packaging with a flat four may have some design constraints that impact power output vs something like a K20A, but the flat engine was chosen for other reasons. I'm sure if given the go ahead, Subaru engineers could produce something easily as good as the K20A or F20/22C, it's just not deemed as their target goal.