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Originally Posted by DylanFRS
I love when people just find one thing some guy said in one video and then they don't even give out the whole truth of what that guys said...
Let's see, first, even if his blanket statement was true, he says "Toyota planned and designed the car, Subaru engineered and manufactured it"...
So to this question, "Why wouldn't I want a product from the Original, and also the Manufacturer", I would ask, Why wouldn't you want a product from the company that planned and designed the car rather than the company that did the grunt work in the CAD program and manufacturing?
Like I said, you obviously don't understand the difference between a design engineer and a project engineer.
I am a design engineer, I design, on a computer, the hydraulic systems for Cessna business jets. Whether or not the system leaks, works as planned, and making sure it can actually be built is my job. How the airplane actually turns out a full product is the culmination of a lot of things which are all overseen by the product engineer. He doesn't actually engineer or manufacture a thing.
On a side note, I really don't think Toyota designed the whole thing either, I think they designed, and Subaru designed. I agree that most of the lowest level engineering was definitely done by Subaru. But all the same, your statement is not only based on the subjective opinion of one journalist, but it also doesn't encompass the entire subjective opinion of what that journalist said. You pick and chose what you wanted from his opinion to suit your needs.  |
First of, my apologize to you and all of the design engineers there is. I studied in mechanical design as well, so I do understand how design engineering is different than project engineering. But both are hands in hands for the final product.
I don't know much about how the internal affair between Toyo-Suba is, but I did read since the car was just a proto type to a concept and until now.
What i gathered was.
1/ FRS was based on the same Dimensions, chasis, and platform the AE86 was. Toyota re-designed it based on the same specs, and improved it accordingly. Toyota then asked Suba to put the Flat engine in it for even a better Gravity point into the car.
2/ Subaru did accept the propose, and so here it is. Like you said, the plan was from Toyota, and the Manufacturing is from Subaru, and from Subaru Assembly line as well.
I agree that the car would be something else if it wasn't for Toyo-Suba. But that was my opinion
