Joke or cock-up?

[LordGrover]

... or genuine news?

[Johnnytheboy]

Assuming a cock up - I imagine there is very little room up front in the GT86/BRZ to throw an AWD drive train in!

Subaru are just so used to selling AWD vehicles, they forgot when copying and pasting.

[Valgar]

Surely a cock up, where did you find it?

[Evolved]

Someone will be getting a roasting for that in the agency/marketing dept.. That's quite a major cock up.

[Johnnytheboy]

Wouldn't AWD remove the car's USP of being a tail happy little sports car a bit, too?

[LordGrover]

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

[TimewarpUK]

LordGrover said:

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

If it was on the internet it must be true.

[Vitorio]

Johnnytheboy said:

Wouldn't AWD remove the car's USP of being a tail happy little sports car a bit, too?

Indeed, would set it apart from the GT86 though...

Add a honking turbo and you get a slightly more traditional Scoobie bruiser.

[Johnnytheboy]

Vitorio said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Wouldn't AWD remove the car's USP of being a tail happy little sports car a bit, too?

Indeed, would set it apart from the GT86 though...

Add a honking turbo and you get a slightly more traditional Scoobie bruiser.

If they could do all that for £23k we'd be in petrolhead nirvana.

Actually someone would still complain it weighed too much or was too much money, or you should buy an elderly muscle car instead.

[Shakermaker]

Johnnytheboy said:

Vitorio said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Wouldn't AWD remove the car's USP of being a tail happy little sports car a bit, too?

Indeed, would set it apart from the GT86 though...

Add a honking turbo and you get a slightly more traditional Scoobie bruiser.

If they could do all that for £23k we'd be in petrolhead nirvana.

Actually someone would still complain it weighed too much or was too much money, or you should buy an elderly muscle car instead.

Or a Jeep Wrangler

[Evolved]

Tbh, it could be marketing genius as its now being talked about on car forums..

[Sheepshanks]

Evolved said:

Tbh, it could be marketing genius as its now being talked about on car forums..

I've got to admit I had no idea BRZ existed until this thread.

[David87]

With the increased drive-train losses, wouldn't this have about 7bhp at the wheels? It must be dangerously slow etc. /PH

[generationx]

IF it is real I´m not too surprised, but a little surprised it has taken Subaru this long to get it done. As both the BRZ and the GT86 use the Subaru flat-4 engine then the front end drivetrain package around this engine is well known and not a big leap.

"Symmetrical four wheel drive" though? No idea.

[X5TUU]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Shakermaker said:

Or a Jeep Wrangler

what you did. I see it.

Couldn't help but chuckle lol

[Vitorio]

Sheepshanks said:

I've got to admit I had no idea BRZ existed until this thread.

Sub has a deal with toyota that toyota can sell 10x the numbers of GT86 compared to the BR-Z, at least in Britain (europe?), im not sure where Subaru is selling their cars, but over here its all toyota in the spotlight.

[Ste1987]

http://www.subaru.com.au/brz/key-features/brz-rear...

*cough* all-wheel drive doesn't mean 4WD, they say *cough*

[300bhp/ton]

generationx said:

"Symmetrical four wheel drive" though? No idea.

Marketing BS, Subaru claim equal length drive shafts give them a better AWD platform and that it performs better off road.

Some truly awful bogus Subaru marketing vids on YouTube pushing this BS.


That said, they do work well, but it's not really anything to do with being "Symmetrical".

[Smitters]

Ste1987 said:

http://www.subaru.com.au/brz/key-features/brz-rear...

*cough* all-wheel drive doesn't mean 4WD, they say *cough*

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

[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.