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[aekOne]

"There are reports circulating in the internet that the next generation of the Subaru Impreza WRX will receive a 2.0-litre turbocharged flat-4 engine with estimated 270hp instead of the current 2.5-litre engine.

The report was sourced by Motor Trend from a spokesperson from Subaru of America. The new engine will be a turbocharged version of the latest FA20 engine from the Toyota 86 (GT-86) and Subaru BRZ. Presently, the naturally aspirated FA20 for the Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ produces 200hp.

The downsizing of displacement (from 2.5-litre to 2.0-litre) is most likely to be related to better fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions. Moreover, the FA20 engine comes with Toyota’s “D-4S” direct injection and port injection technology."

This info and more can be found at: http://www.fastmotoring.com

[alexGT]

= turbocharged BRZ

[aekOne]

=

[jakefake]

winning.

[TSG]

I had my suspicions the BRZ may become the new WRX, in AWD with turbo, it'll be a weapon. We'll have to wait and see.

[aekOne]

The plan for the wrx and sti moving toward is to use the same impreza platform but drop the impreza name (like the xv crossover has and the separation between the outback and liberty names). The Subaru wrx and Subaru STI will have body parts unique to those models and not share with the standard impreza trimmed models while sharing the same base platform

The BRZ was always supposed to be a stand alone project, which it is (for now!!). Interesting to see what and how far Subaru take it over its life span...