Joke or cock-up?

[LordGrover]

... or genuine news?

[LordGrover]

It was posted on another forum; purportedly from a marketing email from Subaru.
May well be a PS special though.

[LordGrover]

Smitters said:

Rarely, if ever, have I read more bks. We made it rwd because Toyota made it rwd. The end.

I think you'll find it's rather the other way round. Toyota may've coughed up for some of the costs and the injection system but I understand the rest is designed and made at Subaru's Ota-city, Gunma Main Plant.