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Originally Posted by TRDLiquidSilver
it has nothing to do with that at all especially with toyota press imbargos.
there's more than one car. you happen to only see in it in germany and socal but there's a prototype testing in very cold weather where there are no spy photographers and in japan. the reason your seeing it in a socal freeway was for engine temp data gathering in severe stop and go driving. you will see more spy photos when we bring it to the desert.
all these spy photos your seeing is because these are no longer mules but close to pre-production to test for problems that we didn't see. all data recorded will be severly analyzed way before it goes into any production car.
also, to answer questions who is doing most of the testing, just look at what cars are around the test, even down to the plates they're using. i'm seeing the ring pictures just like you and those plates look very familiar. we don't have email or phone access to the testers there but they're doing the same thing were doing stateside but a lot more fun. the socal plates you saw like i said before are toyota motor distributor plates not subaru.
toyota is being very shy about how much work they're doing, which is a lot. they've built a great car that just need a few things which they have in my reports.
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(1) Knowing a bit about vehicle development (design engineering) also, I can guestimate This "vehicle" is currently on its evaluation stages, which is about 75% through its development. They find problems, they quickly fix it then BOOM, its production time.
You mentioned Engine temp. checking?, but also I think they are checking the suspension and chassis, recording any unexpected noises, vibrations and harshness etc, again just based from my previous experience with development.
(2) "Test" Vehicles are not numerous.... A test vehicle that goes through "HEAT" testing (Desert, Heat chamber etc) will go through a "COLD" test also (Cold chamber, Michigan during Winter lol (for US cars), and Japan evaluation tracks (for Japan cars).
Unless Toyota and Subaru are testing 3-4 vehicles then this will be a unique case.... usually 1-2 vehicles only. As you want to test the same vehicles going through extremes. A 'heated' body would of expanded, residual expansions can occur with the chassis/underbody assembly... you then put that under a 'cold' test and things shrink a bit... I've heard of seperate cold tests but thats for plastic parts, and it doesnt involve the entire car, just a cut body.