why subaru why?

[gtengr]

Originally Posted by venturaII

(pssst - you're doing it wrong..)

no worse than your reading "skills"

[lionbacker54]

Originally Posted by NCtoBRZ

No help is needed boosting manual sales, the manual accounts for 75% of BRZ sales https://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the...ew/2100000845/ I would guess that the 2017 mechanical changes were not applied to the autos due to the auto accounting for a smaller percentage of sales.

wow, really? that is amazing. 75% of BRZ's are manual? that is crazy

[funwheeldrive]

Originally Posted by venturaII

(pssst - you're doing it wrong..)

Your*

[new2subaru]

Originally Posted by NCtoBRZ

No help is needed boosting manual sales, the manual accounts for 75% of BRZ sales https://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the...ew/2100000845/ I would guess that the 2017 mechanical changes were not applied to the autos due to the auto accounting for a smaller percentage of sales.

No, no, no. It's obviously because the MT needed the extra 5HP to try and keep up with our superior shifting, lightning fast, flappy paddles!!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by lionbacker54

wow, really? that is amazing. 75% of BRZ's are manual? that is crazy

Even more amazing when you consider that of the overall vehicle sales in the US only 4% are now MT. Canada is at about double that at 9% which is still a far cry for the 75% on the BRZ.
I don't know numbers for the 86 but the FRS was only 60% MT at one point (that may have changed but I can't find any recent data).

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by gtengr

Emissions doesn't makes sense unless it's on the administrative side. There's nothing measurable at the tailpipe that would prevent Subaru from using the red intake manifold.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

My guess is that it is the California regulations that prevented the rest of North America from getting the upgrades in the AT>

Emissions makes sense, period.

Give the amount of cheating VW was caught with (and the fact that it was a WV lab contracted to do real-world testing for EU diesel standards using CARB methods), every automaker moving forward doesn't want to get caught with anything resembling an emissions cheat, even if it was close.

Perhaps CA regulations prevented rest of NA from getting upgrades, but CA regulations also caught the biggest emissions cheat in history. I'm okay with that.

[Aluma007]

so...what MPG y'all getting on those manuals on mostly highway drives? I got 31mpg on a 12hr road trip doing 75-80 mostly. I don't really need the big brakes, better shocks, or the red manifold...but man would it look nice in the wheels... every time I see the stock brakes, just makes me think i'm driving a base corolla or something similar... I'll just end up painting them black. Maybe they'll be somewhat hidden that way.

[NCtoBRZ]

Originally Posted by lionbacker54

wow, really? that is amazing. 75% of BRZ's are manual? that is crazy

It’s pretty impressive, but not as much as it would be for a more generic car than the BRZ. The same people who can appreciate the twins for the small, lightweight, loud, rough-riding (comparatively speaking) cars that they are can also appreciate that a manual transmission adds to the driving experience rather than looking at it as an inconvenience.

[ermax]

Originally Posted by Aluma007

so...what MPG y'all getting on those manuals on mostly highway drives? I got 31mpg on a 12hr road trip doing 75-80 mostly. I don't really need the big brakes, better shocks, or the red manifold...but man would it look nice in the wheels... every time I see the stock brakes, just makes me think i'm driving a base corolla or something similar... I'll just end up painting them black. Maybe they'll be somewhat hidden that way.

If you’re going to paint them do it sooner than later because it’s a bitch to get them completely clean.

[venturaII]

Originally Posted by funwheeldrive

Your*

'You are doing it wrong'. As a contraction, that would be 'you're doing it wrong'.

[ermax]

Originally Posted by venturaII

'You are doing it wrong'. As a contraction, that would be 'you're doing it wrong'.

And another example in my post above.

[e30kawi]

I'm sure you're both wrong

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by e30kawi

I'm sure you're both wrong

It's a car forum, we are all wrong.

[Clipdat]

Right. But I'm less wrong than you are.

Originally Posted by Spuds

It's a car forum, we are all wrong.