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10-18-2024, 01:26 PM | #176 | |
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Toyota does sell the manual Tacoma with less HP/TQ in the manual version, but Tacoma is a truck and the manual version sells in very small numbers anyways.
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10-18-2024, 01:52 PM | #177 | |
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I have seen plenty of people complaining about CVT's slipping and jerking on their stock WRX. When a manual starts to slip, you replace the clutch with a stronger clutch. When a CVT starts to slip, you.... replace the full transmission with another one that will just slip? There's literally nothing you can do. The CVT is 100% the limiting factor in my eyes. |
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10-18-2024, 02:55 PM | #178 | |
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anecdotally... Subaru has never, from the factory, offered that transmission with more than 258 lb/ft torque. No matter 2.5l, 2.0l, 2.4l, or the torque heavy diesel. Subaru has offered the CVT with a lot more even as far back as 2012. You could get a DIT Legacy in Japan w/ 295 lb/ft torque over a decade ago. |
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10-24-2024, 01:54 PM | #179 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/subaru/comm...ghting_in_san/
Drivers in California seem to keep finding it in the open driving around in camo. Will someone get a much closer in depth look of it, we will have to wait and see |
10-24-2024, 02:56 PM | #180 |
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You know, it does kind of look like a giant 1998 Forester
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10-24-2024, 03:32 PM | #181 | |
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there should be nothing shocking at all to know that the factory is only willing to rate it if the torque doesn't exceed 260ish. this is just my opinion, but the biggest weakness on the WRX is not the stock power, or the looks, or the brakes, that transmission sucks. I will never own another Subaru with the WRX manual. |
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10-24-2024, 08:35 PM | #182 |
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Just the direction the Japanese brands are taking. Makes sense when seeing the new Honda Pilot "Trail-whatever" Edition is a pretty nice package for 2025. Bigger vehicle like this new Outback iteration. Has a naturally aspirated V6 in it. Might as well call it the New 4Runner.
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10-24-2024, 09:27 PM | #183 | |
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10-25-2024, 01:56 PM | #184 | |
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100% Despite the differences in drivetrain/all-wheel "Assist," I appreciate that V6. Just like I appreciate the V6 in the Frontier when compared to the new Tacoma. |
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10-25-2024, 07:04 PM | #185 | |
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Everyone hates the turbo 4 in the new Tacoma but it makes way more torque than the old V6. N/A V6’s suck in trucks. I had a TRD Pro Tacoma with the manual and it sucked driving around unladen never mind with a load behind it. |
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10-26-2024, 10:25 AM | #186 | |
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10-26-2024, 10:34 AM | #187 | |
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I haven't driven a manual truck that drove well, TBH. My dad had a string of manual trucks (F150, F250, F250, Tacoma) and they could only be described as "good" against their contemporary automatics which were basically trash. By the mid 00s, automatic trucks were nicer to drive than manual. |
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10-26-2024, 09:27 PM | #188 |
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I have no idea, it's the same split case design they introduced in the early 90s though.
granted, it's now a 6 speed instead of a 5, the synchros are all better, etc. talk about getting their money's worth out of a design though. |
10-28-2024, 11:54 AM | #189 | |
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So for what it is worth, the N/A V6 is not sporty, but if properly set up, it can work fine in a truck like application. I have no idea why V6 tacos got such abysmal mileage. It never made sense to me. MY GCL OVerland is heavier and with a weaker engine and still outperforms the V6 Taco in efficiency. |
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10-28-2024, 02:42 PM | #190 |
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10-28-2024, 02:48 PM | #191 |
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I think that will do well. It looks like a tougher outback, going along with the more square offroad land rover vibe everybody is going for. Wheels look like 20" too. That is large for an outback.
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10-28-2024, 03:15 PM | #192 |
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10-29-2024, 12:20 PM | #193 |
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all that's old is new again.
dig up Paul Hogan for a new ad campaign! |
10-30-2024, 05:40 AM | #194 |
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Looks more wagon and less SUV in that photo. Good.
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10-30-2024, 07:21 AM | #195 |
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Drove my CX70 Turbo S Premium from MA to HHI in SC for a 2 week vacation. Got home Saturday. 3800 miles. 1k there. 1k back, 1800 from a trip from HHI to Myrtle and back (4 hrs each way), and then another trip to Charleston (2+ hours each way).
I will never own another Subaru until they move away from teh CVT and put a real transmission in them. While I didn't hate the CVT on a commuter Impreza, on road trips it was loud because small engine, had to run at higher RPMs. But the feel from moving back to a real transmission, yum. (If you grow up with just CVT, you may just find going to a real auto weird, so there's that - but I didn't) My CX70 turbo, under 2k rpms cruising at or under 75mph. Sure, I have more then 2x hp/tq too, and that most certainly helps, but damn it was nice to have a quiet cabin, good music, excellent weather. No NVH issues and the straight 6 turbo is no joke. Pulls like a freight train. And the tranny.... shifts like buttah. |
10-30-2024, 10:51 AM | #196 | |
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10-30-2024, 04:47 PM | #197 |
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This might not be their answer, but I'm pretty sure the 70 has better financing incentives right now. So if you don't need the third row, I bet the 70 is a slightly better deal.
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10-30-2024, 09:55 PM | #198 | |
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I was just as stumped as many when they split the designations and not just a CX90 as both a 2 row & 3 row. That said, the Turbo S Premium CX70 starts $500 cheaper than the same CX90. I'm a dink, no kids will be in the car and all my adult friends, don't need to fit in 6/7/8 people. 4/5 is fine. In the past 30 years, I have never needed more than 4 seats in a car because at most it's Me/Wife, another person/couple. Last edited by KC; 10-31-2024 at 07:44 AM. |
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10-30-2024, 11:33 PM | #199 |
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10-31-2024, 07:34 AM | #200 |
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As someone that not only was alive to have ridden in the old Ford LTD/Country Squire Wagons as a family car back and forth to school in the 'way' back, but also saw the movie when it was in theaters, no. No it does not.
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