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Originally Posted by madfast
in other words, subaru done fucked up, over and over again. how many refreshes has the WRX had? if they had just done it right the first time, they wouldnt have to refresh the car so often.... personally im glad toyota is involved.
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Uh, Toyota gave input for 08' WRX styling, trying to Corolla-size the WRX, 09' they tried to gain favor with the refresh but then also shot their current base in the foot, so for 2011 Subaru said we're doing this our way bringing back the wide flares and stopped caring about the Toyobean counters. Now they make the choice to separate the Impreza from WRX to satisfy the bean counters, because they can't bear to put their follower thru it again. It is because of Toyota along with FHI decisions the refreshes had to be done to the WRX.
Same will follow with this car unfortunately because from the beginning Subaru wanted to use this chassis and balance it with their company performance model and build Toyota's version the way Toyota wanted. It would split the market for the 2 cars, Toyota knew that Scion would not survive this in the US, making them marginally different keeps Scion in the loop. Overseas the Europeans and Asians care about N/A and diesel, the US generally don't.