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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo
Keep in mind that the Twins' chief engineer, Tetsuya Tada, is from Toyota. A lot of the hardware is Subaru or Subaru derived, but direction comes from Toyota. Tada also heads the Supra development. He's back as chief engineer for the 2nd gen 86 and I'm sure gets direction from Akio Toyoda. Akio recently made them significantly revise the Supra chassis setup quite late in the development because he didn't think it was exciting enough to drive.
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Now if I were Toyota, I'd replace the 86 with a base model Supra costing $5-10k more than the current Limited model. This has been Porsches approach for many years and maximized the production and parts aspects. The Corvette (which will be mid-engined for 2020), is also marketed this way. Again, if Toyota moves in this direction, which makes all of the sense in the world, I'm just not convinced that the BRZ could exist on its own. If it does in this circumstance, they would just continue to make minor changes and continue to depreciate plant and equipment.