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Originally Posted by RayRay88

Something tells me the boxer motor wasn't just for Cg, but also as a cost effective option, think about it the car is a mish mash of Impreza chassis parts, and no doubt they were already developing a new engine architecture and the Toyota involvement offset the cost significantly. Subaru doesn't do non boxer engines anymore so Toyota would bear most of the costs by creating a bespoke engine for this car. So it stands to reason, unless manufacturing switches to Toyota, the new car will keep the boxer.

And of course if they switch to a Toyota engine and platform it begs the age old question of "is it still really an 86?" At some point the changes are so great that it becomes the model in name only and all comparisons to the old version become a waste of time.