(GR86) Second Generation FR-S/BRZ insider info...

[Tcoat]

Somebody owes Cartel customs some design royalties!
2014 SEMA car

[wbradley]

Originally Posted by NaturallyAspirated

LOL

I will think that every time I see the front for now on. Please fix it for me Toyota!

[Cephas]

Originally Posted by Tokay444

The bastard looks like the new Ford Escape from the front.

Ouch. You're right, not gonna un-see that.

[Sasquachulator]

Lemme help you guys unsee the ford:










I would say its just the joker taking a knife to the current BRZ and saying to it
"Lets put a smile on that face of yours....."

[Tokay444]

The Viper actually isn’t that. The rest look ridiculous.

[Red-86]

Originally Posted by Blighty

My pre-order reservation is in boys.

There were already 3 reservations at my dealer!

Did they give you any indications on possible delivery dates e.g. last qtr of 2021 or not until 2022?

[Blighty]

Originally Posted by Red-86

Did they give you any indications on possible delivery dates e.g. last qtr of 2021 or not until 2022?

No, though I imagine we can go off Subaru's timeline for factory lines starting in middle of next year, releasing in the fall?

I believe they call it the 2022 model because in the US they have a law (well, an executive order from the 30's) that means any new car model release in the fall will be called as the model of the year following.

Apparently over time that exec order has morphed into new models pretty much always (no matter when released) get the year following its production as the model year.

The US doesn't have a '12 model FR-S for instance, though it was released in 2012.

[StE92ve]

Originally Posted by Blighty

I believe they call it the 2022 model because in the US they have a law (well, an executive order from the 30's) that means any new car model release in the fall will be called as the model of the year following.

Apparently over time that exec order has morphed into new models pretty much always (no matter when released) get the year following its production as the model year.

Don't know the source of your information but my MY2014 CX-5 was produced in December 2012.

[Sport-Tech]

Originally Posted by StE92ve

Don't know the source of your information but my MY2014 CX-5 was produced in December 2012.

It's the year they start to sell it that is the relevant datum. Any car starting sales after Jan 1 2021 can be called a 2022 IIRC.

[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by Sport-Tech

It's the year they start to sell it that is the relevant datum. Any car starting sales after Jan 1 2021 can be called a 2022 IIRC.

Sorry, but not completely correct. With a 17 character V.I.N. the 10th character indicates the model year. That merely shows that the vehicle meets or exceeds the standards for that given model year but may have been built before or in some cases long after. (Read up on Carroll Shelby's counterfeit Cobra's.)


In 1993, the Los Angeles Times exposed a Carroll Shelby scheme to counterfeit his own cars. With the price of an original 427 c.i. Cobra skyrocketing, Shelby had, by his own written declaration executed under penalty of perjury, caused the California Department of Motor Vehicles (the government agency responsible for titling vehicles and issuing operator permits) to issue forty-three "Duplicate Titles" for vehicles that did not officially exist in company records. A letter from AC Cars confirmed the fact that the chassis numbers Shelby had obtained titles for were never manufactured, at least not by AC Cars. Only fifty-five 427 c.i. Cobras had been originally produced out of a block of serial numbers reserved for 100 vehicles. Shelby had taken advantage of a loophole in the California system that allowed one to obtain a duplicate title for a vehicle with only a written declaration, without the vehicle identification number appearing in the DMV's database or the declarant ever presenting an actual vehicle for inspection. Shelby admitted that the chassis had been manufactured in 1991 and '92 by McCluskey Ltd, an engineering firm in Torrance, California, and were not original AC chassis...

[StE92ve]

Originally Posted by NaturallyAspirated

I think this is what Subaru was trying to mimic..

[Blighty]

[WolfpackS2k]

People are making some very very flimsy comparisons to other cars and apparently emojis.

Can you people include me in this wacky drug party? I want some of these pills or whatever you're smoking.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k

People are making some very very flimsy comparisons to other cars and apparently emojis.

Can you people include me in this wacky drug party? I want some of these pills or whatever you're smoking.

Hey! They all look like... cars.
Best aero design is best aero design so ya a bunch may have some similar features but I am with you most are a serious stretch.