Reports confirm existence of Toyota/Subaru sports car
08-11-07, 08:04 AM
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A hybrid?
http://jalopnik.com/cars/toyota/repo...car-288210.php
Report: Toyota, Subaru to Develop Sports Car
Take the best of Toyota and best of Subaru and what do you get? If you said an all-wheel-drive hybrid sporting a huge hood intake and the road feel of warmed-over lasagna, you're way off. According to Automotive News, Fuji Heavy Industries, parent of Subaru, and benefactor Toyota are working up a new sports car to be sold under the Toyota brand. The car, which could supplant the discontinued MR2, would likely sell for around 17 grand and come with an engine displacing less than two liters. That powerplant would be hooked to Subaru's symmetrical all-wheel-drive gear. Expected release date is 2010. No word on powerplant, but we know more than a few Scoobieheads gunning for the boxer four.
Take the best of Toyota and best of Subaru and what do you get? If you said an all-wheel-drive hybrid sporting a huge hood intake and the road feel of warmed-over lasagna, you're way off. According to Automotive News, Fuji Heavy Industries, parent of Subaru, and benefactor Toyota are working up a new sports car to be sold under the Toyota brand. The car, which could supplant the discontinued MR2, would likely sell for around 17 grand and come with an engine displacing less than two liters. That powerplant would be hooked to Subaru's symmetrical all-wheel-drive gear. Expected release date is 2010. No word on powerplant, but we know more than a few Scoobieheads gunning for the boxer four.
08-11-07, 08:22 AM
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Actually, my little 2001 Impreza wagon has a 2.2, so it must have been discontinued some time after that. And prior to 2000, its output was around 135hp (?).
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