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Old 05-24-2011, 01:22 PM   #11
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And Subaru claimed that there is only Subaru's effort in engineering. What the heck?
joint venture doesn't mean that both Subaru and Toyota engineers come together into one room and build a car. Subaru cannot speak for Toyota and Toyota cannot speak for Subaru. Think of it as a divided contracting deal.

What this means is that Subaru, FHI, and Toyota Project planners & coordinators came together into one room and built a project proposal which contracted each company's engineers into building the car separately. Its apparent based on the amount of tangible information that flows from each company on what was developed inhouse.

My guess, Chassis Toyota / Powertrain Subaru / Drivetrain Toyota / Suspension Subaru / Braking system Toyota/

Each was to do their part and then come together under Toyota flag first, I believe this is the reason why there has not been a Subaru FT Concept car yet.
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