Mike may not be in a position to make an ultimatum. That show is his job. Is it appropriate to blame him for not making an ultimatum?

By and large they don’t, though. Not to effect positive change, and not that returns significant negative consequences. So the illusion that because one’s words are accessible everywhere they’re being dutifully read and given the import of sage advice by the right people continues to entice and disappoint, and in some…

There aren’t a lot of really bad people on the Internet, but we hear about every one of them.

And Fiat sold 542.

Of course, if the car exists, Subaru dealers want a piece of the action. If something’s going to poach sales from the WRX STi, they want it to be able to sell it. They’d want an exclusive if they could get it.

I believe someone already does a supercharger kit for it. I like the idea of a supercharger; it harkens back to the MR2 Supercharged.

The turbo sits underneath the engine in the WRX and WRX STi. The engine in the Toyobaru sits too low.

I’ve not seen a caped pantsuit before. What a regal look.

It’d steal from other sports cars, sure, but it’s silly to assume that no STI buyers wanted a 300hp BRZ.

Different cars with many of the same attributes appealing to largely the same fanbase. First, imagine the conniption Subaru dealers would have if the Toyota 86 got a hipo model and the BRZ didn’t. Second, imagine the Subaru fan wanting that hot BRZ and reading that she can only get it with Toyota badges. She knows…

Your ignorance is astounding. You laid out conditions that are not different from conditions that have existed many times before, and when informed of this, just repeated your conditions and said “but this time it will be different” based on nothing.

Mustang shares about as much with the rest of the Ford lineup as the BRZ shares with the rest of the Subaru lineup.

Ford Mustang is a $26,000 car that moves upmarket past $40,000.

Toyota owns 16.5% of Subaru, so they’re not likely to want to screw them. And Toyota probably sees less return on investment in a hotter 86 than they do in more mainstream vehicles.

You are confused.

That’s a good thought. It would certainly make them happy once they tried the car, but would it move the needle enough to get their butt in the seat in the first place? And as others have pointed out the plumbing for a turbo would be problematic.

You present zero evidence to back your argument other than the same old whinging that has gone on for decades. I bet you thought your Microsoft comment wasn’t just a shitty straw man too?

You could have something fun again the minute you trade that car and your daily driver for another fun car.

You’re benchracing. Stop that. Most people don’t actually buy cars that way, which is why what you fear/hope for hasn’t happened, isn’t happening, and won’t happen.

Soon it won’t sell at all.