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I stand corrected* my comment related to US market.
And now to address above comment.
Subaru may not build cars that would qualify for "kick in the pants" but when they do they deliver. Out of the box WRX and WRX STI is one nasty beast that is as synonymous with off road motor sports as peanut butter is to jelly.
All of their other cars are not sport built except for Impreza line up.
For average granny they have the impreza. For everyone else they have 5 WRX models each with own tweaks.
Toyota on the other hand have made it rather clear that toyota and motor sports have stopped mixing in mid to late 90's. Their rally cars never really made it to usa. Their only sport car was so obscenely overpriced that it might as well have been priced a million dollars because with that kind of exclusivity one wonders what low mileage mark 4 will sell for on collector's market in 50 years time. The MR2 did not quite work out. I love that car but it was too impractical and also cost quite a lot. And then other cars were girlified by EPA, FDOT, NHSA regulations that by time they hit streets here in US they were a sad underperforming twin sibling to what was sold overseas.
And then Toyota stopped producing sport cars altogether at least here in US. They figured if they invested into Lexus they could cater to rich folks and for the rest of us they had their current line up.
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