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Originally Posted by WildCard600
I would have gladly paid an extra 2500-5000 dollars. I'm going to be spending more than that supercharging my car and forfeiting my 10 year 150,000 mile warranty in the process.
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Those numbers he made up aren't based on anything. The fact the Supra does cost 50k+ means adding a turbo for production development to an 86 will add 10k+ or more to the vehicle price.
You need to account for development teams, the time that takes, Government safety regulations, fuel efficiency requirements (from a fleet perspective), production tooling costs and development and a whole list of more bs. The costs of ALL those things get put into the price of the vehicle.
The reason it works for the Mustang or Impreza/WRX/STI is because they are literally selling tens upon tens of thousands of these EVERY SINGLE YEAR. The 86/BRZ are down to what, a couple thousand now and never were over 10-15k yr 1. Even take a look at what the STI S209 costs, thats 70K and up depending on dealer addons and thats because its hand built and limited numbers (like what all STIs were back in then 90s). Which, if you're just "tossing an already made turbo 4 from Subaru in," is what you're doing.