[Grosbard]

Hi all! Wanted to get more info on this. I ordered a BRZ Limited 6MT because I want the rear Cross Traffic Alert and the better tires, but looking at the more detailed specs, I see that Limited comes with "SUBARU STARLINK Connected Services" but Premium does not.

I looked up what the "Connected Services" are, and it seems like a bunch of things that track your usage patterns and location, and that info will be used to:

1. provide services if you want them (and are still within your free subscription period, and/or you have paid for addition time on the subscription)

AND

2. that info will be used by Subaru for knowing more about you and your usage, and sold to other companies to help them market to you.

Based on this, I think I would rather not have the "Connected Services", so I'm thinking about changing my order to Premium (I can always get different wheels and tires right after purchase). So my question is which of these two do you think is the likely situation:

1. Both Premium and Limited have the exact same hardware and therefore do the same tracking and selling of your information, it's just that Limited is the only version that allows you to take advantage of those services if you want to use them. (In which case, Limited sounds better than Premium to me)

2. Premium doesn't have all the necessary radios and antennas needed for the "Connected Services" to track your usage and location, so they don't have the ability to track your usage even if they wanted to. (In which case, Premium sounds better to me)

I think #1 seems more likely since Subaru would probably not bother with the expense of making 2 separate versions of the car hardware for this (especially since the "feature" we're talking about is actually valuable to them...it's one feature they really want you to have, so they'd happily give it to you for free).

Would love to hear sincere and constructive feedback on this topic. Thanks!