Word on the street says Subaru is developing a high-powered turbo BRZ. Good news for all those Toybaru fans out there wanting moar powaaaah!
According to Automotive News, Subaru’s 2.0 litre boxer engine will be good for 280hp (208kW) after having its twin scroll blow dryer bolted on. Torque should go from a miserly 200Nm to beyond 330Nm. Now we’re talking!
It’s expected Subaru will ditch the DI/port-injection developed by Toyota in favour of their own in-house direct injection.
The report states the BRZ Turbo could arrive as a 2014 model, which given the US market’s propensity to make everything seem a year earlier than reality, could even mean we’ll be seeing the Toybaru that everyone has always wanted as soon as next year.
Bring it on!
[Source: Automotive News]
7 replies on “Subaru developing BRZ Turbo”
This is when I commit to a BRZ!
recommit
Haha, good call. 😛
hmm hope they have an upgrade path for the early adaptors!
Can’t see it happeneing when waiting lists for BRZ are already out to two years?!
I’m glad they came to their senses! Hopefully the pricing can still make it attractive!
A direct injection version of that engine already exists (FA20DIT) in the new JDM Liberty GT. They don’t need to develop anything at all.
Also, they don’t have their own DI tech, its all from Toyota.
There is a 1.6L turbo engine that they developed (the FB) a while back too so that it could be used in the next WRX (FIA standardised homolgation), that engine is more likely to be used in the BRZ if anything.
Don’t care what engine it has though, just want a turbo ASAP at the end of the day.