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Originally Posted by rvoll
Smaller brakes/wheels and lesser cost seats brings the price down about $400 max. The major upgrade cost are in the exact items you want more of. In fact, power seats alone would add at least $300 to the price. Again, what you're saying makes little sense. The only way to bring the price down is to produce as many Twins as Civics or Camrys. It is the limited production runs and lack of economy of scale that raises the price of the car. And current volumes are even lower than they've been in the past as performance CUV's continue to grow.
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economies of scale can lower the price, exactly. They are never ever going to sell many twins, no matter how many they produce. 2 door cars just do not sell, even camaros and mustangs sales are dropping.
The only way they can ever have any scaling with the twins is by wholesale use of impreza parts. They do a lot of that already, but they could easily do more. Whether or not they could do enough to make a huge difference is something no one outside of subaru or toyota could say.