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Originally Posted by old greg
These cars aren't being efficiently stamped out in mass quantities they were hand built and in very small numbers. In fact there may only be two or three in all of Europe. And while the material value of these cars is irrelevant, they'll all be crushed in a few months anyway for tax purposes, they are still needed for testing. And even though the Gazoo Racing car came through unscathed, it's now useless for pre-production testing/tuning due to the welded in roll cage. Even if Subaru wanted to take a BRZ to go racing, I really doubt they could justify ruining a second prototype in order to do so.
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The prototypes/concepts may not all be crushed?
Subaru has a big storage Faclity somewhere in Japan that has quite a number of there prototype/concept cars being stored.
They get taken out once a year and washed, then parked back up.
Mind you one or two may also end up in Toyotas or Subarus Musesums.
I also remember reading an artical that some one put up on this site...
Sounded like Prehaps Subaru may show a special racing verson of BRZ at Tokyo Auto show???????
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1892
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Earlier in his career, Masuda-san had worked in the UK with Prodrive on motorsport and performance projects such as the Impreza STI 22-B limited edition rally replica. Would we see the BRZ appearing in Super GT, FIA GT3, GT4 or a similar motorsports role?
'If you're interested in motorsports, you should definitely come and see us at the Tokyo motor show' was the grinning engineer's reply…
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