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06-15-2018, 01:31 PM | #15 | |
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Why some people think the BRZ and Miata need to follow the standard 5 year refresh cycle is beyond me. The twins platform will continue as is with incremental improvements made to it over time until the manufacturer fails to get it pass certain safety / emission standards. Even if they discontinue it for next year, I say 7 years is a great run cuz that means it's a really good design to last that long. Last edited by krayzie; 06-15-2018 at 01:42 PM. |
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These are the same sites that guaranteed that their sources confirmed a turbo version in 2015. Oh wait we meant 2016. Oh it was delayed so 2017. Sorry we wrote 2018 wrong in the past articles so it will be here soon. There is not one single official statement by either company on the future of the car.
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That can be interpreted in several ways and does not mean as much as people seem to think.
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The 86/BRZ came out when Nov 2011? I say realistically expect this to be a planned 10 year run.
By 2021 and leading upto 2025, technology might be so far ahead then to not warrant making an old school sports car as re-education to the public like it did 10 years prior, or future regulations might forbid it to come to fruition. The current Toyota regime would have been retired as well, so a totally different direction may be in place then. |
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Separate quotes without the full context are meaningless. Those are not official statements they are a website reporter's interpretation of some fragments of a statement. Not to mention that they are two years old and much may have changed since then. People may believe such things all they wish but the track record of these sites being inaccurate leave me very, very skeptical. They should never, ever be used as facts or official statements. LOL and do you really think the President of FHI gave an interview about the BRZ to Automotive News? "Fuji Heavy Industries president Yasuyuki Yoshinaga confirmed a second-generation BRZ to Automotive News in a recent interview."
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Personally, I would prefer this car to be treated as an one-off car than trying to extend its production for much more years. Subaru has by all intents and purposes treated essentially this car as a one-off car (low volume and sales expectations, no marketing, RWD in a all-AWD line-up etc). Maybe Toyota had different intensions, but for the time it looks to be focused on a successful release of the new Supra. |
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Nah. Their guesses are no better that our guesses. Can be worse since they are trying to get clicks to earn money so need something that people want to actually read be it accurate or not.
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End production, Store car for 40 years, sell for lots of money.
I mean Datsun 280Z's from the late 70's are selling for over $30,000 now |
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So if that is the best we have to go off of, then it only supports the contention based on things like the website, lack of improvements in the current 86 models, lack of developmental models, etc. If you were an auto exec would you ever say that a model would be discontinued before the official announcement? You'd always say that a new model is in development as long as it continues to sell... |
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The Supra is not the next gen 86 it is in a totally different ballpark and not planned for the same market.
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Your last statement about the Supra is also clearly not relevant to the statement that was made in the article. Your assumption that a next gen comment must be in the same "ballpark" as the current market is a very limited parochial perspective. From a corporate point of view, a new sports car, even if significantly more expensive, could well be the next generation of sports car in the truest sense. Remember that profit margins on the new Supra will probably be significantly higher than a lower priced, budget sports car. Also, from Toyota's perspective, they are foregoing the profit that Subaru makes on production, so it is even more likely that they will put their capital in other places. |
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