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Originally Posted by Driftster
The boxer engine is a nice touch, but it is in NO way a requirement at all..
As far as I can tell the only reason this car chose the box engine was because Subaru was due for a new engine and no better way to showcase/advertize the new engine than in a new vehicle..
Toyota has produced plenty of engines for the next few years, for them to retool an assembly line just to produce an engine that wouldn't see the engine bay of maybe 1 or 2 cars would be financially silly. Meanwhile subaru, which has been behind in the technology world by 10 years for the past...12-15 years needed a revamp and since they share engines over a wide variety of vehicles it makes alot more sense economically for subaru to be the company to produce the plant for this car...
This cars focus is CLEARLY "driving dynamic" not weight, not handling, because a car doesn't have to be light or carve corners in order to be responsive to the driver. The car has had a few targets to aim for on it's way to production, but since the onslaught of press releases started the focus of this car has steered away from nearly everything they promised prior to solely how it "Feels"
Putting a Boxer 4, or an inline 4 under the bonnet when all is said and done has such a inadmissible level of relevance to that goal it makes no sense to credit the engine on that achievement.
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Quite the conspiracy going on I guess, if the REAL reasons for the design of the car is as you say
Nothing so much to do with making a sports car, but rather some confluence of needs from Toyota/Subaru marketing / production upgrades. Yea, I guess all the marketing is a cover when they speak about sports car design, not to mention physics of car handling is really a sham from those elitist shady engineers just trying to hold onto their jobs
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