All I wanted were the Brembos and pearl white paint on my 124 Abarth.

Subaru’s second gen CVT is part of how they got such killer fuel mileage from their new Impreza offerings. They have better mileage than the 6MTs across the range. Go look.

I worked at a Subaru dealership in 2002. We couldn’t keep the SUS on the lot even then.

I think they want to *not* dilute STI like BMW and Mercedes have butchered M and AMG. But one high-end performance model on each would be really cool.

That’s been a rumor for years, though. I’ll believe it when I see them on the showroom floor.

If you put the Ez30R crank in the EZ36, you get a low-compression 3.2L flat 6. This has already been done dozens of times for the very purpose of adding boost. 400HP/400lbft should be easy out of a setup like that.

Why a ZF 8-speed? They’re RWD without added gadgetry by default. Subaru easily makes some of the best AWD systems available.

The STI’s transmission handles 400HP on stock internals really well. They’re almost absurdly overbuilt. You wouldn’t even need the DCCD in it. Just the STI 6MT in a sweet FE/AWD coupe. The last…

I’m not a fan of CVTs by any stretch, but the generation currently in use is light years better than their first generation one.

Just like Portlandia says: The ideal of the 90s...

The Panamera looks good everywhere but the rear. This corrects that problem. :D

You’d have to ape the suspension from a Legacy, and that’s pretty much it. Functionally identical in about every other way, other than badges.

But that’s the ENTIRE suspension. So still at least a few grand.

If they put the STi-6MT on a handful of 3.6Rs they’d sell them all off pretty quick...

The current top performer (WRX STI) is manual only. They still know what they’re doing.

The reason the automatic is a CVT is because they don’t want to have to make 8 different transmissions for cost reasons. They already make 3 different ones: STI 6MT, Everything else 6MT, and the CVT. Subaru’s CVT is probably one of…

Are they saying “culero” or “guero”?

1st: Marchionne needs the boot from FCA. He’s managed to do nothing with the brand, other than get Italian products into the US market. That’s great for the Italians, but Chrysler and Dodge continue to suffer as much as they ever have. Lackluster product lineup except a full sized coupe and sedan, and shoddy quality…

If you look at inflation, he really hasn’t made all that much. He inherited it all from Daddy Trump. If he’d made investments that had simply tracked the S&P-500 over the course of the last 30 years, he’d be worth 8-9 billion. Every investment analyst in the country says that shouldn’t be very difficult. He *might* be…

My friend’s parents had one of these right out of high school. It had some get up and go. We used to take it to this one hill in town where we could jump the car... and we definitely got it airborne.

To be fair, the Yamaha engine was great - when it worked. I had a friend back in the day that had an SHO that was on blocks more than it was on tires. He made $$$ too. He was an IT admin. It really just broke that often.

Well, it *was* a sport sedan. <taps playing in background, kicks dirt>

Did you get Holden badges for yours? :D

I’ll just leave this here.