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Originally Posted by industrial
Yeah well it's blatantly manipulative. If you want to be responsible, keep your product under wraps until it's ready or give updates. What Innovate has done is just generate hype and yeah, some people aren't cool with that.
What if Subaru officially announced back in October that there will be a turbo 2014 BRZ STI for $29,000! YAY, this is too good to be true! And then absolutely no information followed for the next 5 months aside from leaks that maybe it won't make as much power as people are expecting. Yeah, people will get pissed.
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control your anger, dont get pissed, appreciate the undertaking and its complexity.
Heck if its any solace to you all, I was car-less for over 4 months while my car was a test mule. I didnt complain much, or call my vendor weekly, tho it was a challenge to not. Updates are never as frequent as one would like!
Theres more to it with this type of production project, its not all car tuning, HP and TQ, there is the money to fund it all, try and gauge demand etc. There alot going on in other economies right now.
theres the tooling, protoyping, testing, shipping across the pond, testing with different fuels, climates, etc etc, so never underestimate the challenges any vendor or manufacturer has in funding, contracting, acceptance testing etc.
Especially where you have firms in Austrailia,Asia and USA that need to sync up for this converged component product to be all we think it will be.
As one of our cars has a centri SC, you can bet I am watching this thread as I think about what the heck to do with the other car. I dont REALLY want two of the same, so yeah, I'm hoping this thing makes a splash too!
It would be pretty cool to have two SC BRZs, each from a different vendor. One for track torture with oodles of top end, and the other with a meaty midrange. Not a bad strategy for my garage. I dont think I have turbo budget for either car, if I did a turbo it would be getting a big assed FMIC, huge oil cooler and a bad assed radiator. that all can add up fast, can can be work, so in my opinion, patience for the SC market to catch up with the Turbo market is worth it.
Turbo BRZ would compete with STI sales, why injure their flagship?
Sure updates would be nice, I personally dont think 2000 posts have urged them to respond, and sure, as end users, its tricky to process and interpret that in light of what we want to expect in the way of communication and responsiveness, but its truly too early to formulate any judgements. Keep your cool kids. I'm rooting for this team too.
I spoke to Adam today at length, and I suggest we all hold our breathe to see what this is, it DOES sound promising. They are very much intent on bringing a solid product to market.
The idea of one car being centri(track car high HP build, more peak power, mine) and the other being an Innovate Twin Screw(DD more low rpm power delivery,hers) is indeed a fun one to toss around.