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Originally Posted by AIRMAX
- Chassis/Platform is modified Impreza, which has been re-designed enough to be RWD.... Toyota engineers and Subaru engineers playing around with it to produce a new platform out of the old Impreza platform.
- Again, both companies have their own drawings for these parts.
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For some reason this doesn't seem right to me. What your saying is that any car is inter-related. If i took a Impreza Platform and modified/re-designed it enough.. i could have a Skyline GT-R...or modify that and have a Bugatti Veyron. So a Impreza shares the same chassis as a Ferrari because they re-designed it enough.
If the FT86 platform and the entire skeleton retains even over 50% of impreza skeleton..is it still not an impreza? If this is the way cars are made, at what point do they start distinguishing its a different chassis?
If Toyobaru says..its a new chassis..i believe its a new chassis, Drawn from hand, rendered in cad, built on computers. But the designers from both Toyota and Subaru added their expertise including performance and design characteristics of impreza and legacy, LFA, AE86, ect...
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Toyobaru take the pre-existing skeleton from a impreza, upload in on CAD, play around with it, and call it a new car?