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Originally Posted by madfast
-who provides the tranny is NOT irrelevant. subaru uses CVTs and automatics from jatco. toyota uses Aisin. this car will have an Aisin tranny. now if this was a subaru developed car, why not use the trannies that they have been using? why use a toyota part? unless of course toyota provides the tranny, and subaru simply bolts it up for them in the factory...
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I have to say, this one's pretty weak. The transmission in question was also used in the Honda S2000 and the Mazda RX8/MX5. More generally speaking, Aisin (of which Toyota only owns 30%) also has also supplied transmissions to: Alfa Romeo, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Citroen, Fiat, Ford, Holden, Honda, Isuzu, Lancia, Land Rover, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Opel, Peugeot, Pontiac, Porsche, Renault, Saab, Saturn, Suzuki and Volvo. So the fact that this car uses an Aisin tranny doesn't really prove anything either way.
That said, the guy at Subaru claiming the credit is the "deputy general manager of corporate communications". He's a PR guy, and I would bet multiple dollars that the guy doesn't know his ass from his elbow. I'm much more inclined to believe Tada-san's explanation, given that he was the guy in charge of the design team:
Each company tried to design half of a car, but that didn't really work. So the project evolved past X% Toyota + Y% Subaru and became a single team of passionate car guys, working together to make a car with the best DNA of both companies.