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2013 Subaru BRZ
 | BOXER® Engine Technology The compact design of the SUBARU BOXER® engine allows it to sit lower and farther back than other designs, helping to provide an exceptionally low center of gravity and sharp directional response. |
The low center of gravity also enhances BRZ's sensuous beauty with its shapely fender flares. The aesthetic beauty is combined with functional beauty that advances aerodynamics through such areas as the C-pillar shape, rear glass inclination, trunk lid layout. As would be expected from a sports car, the front and rear overhangs were shortened to express the BRZ's liveliness. The front fender is accentuated with a distinctive garnish.
Every Subaru model uses the longitudinal, front-to-back drivetrain layout found in most sports cars*. Our experience with this configuration in our Symmetrical All Wheel Drive models made adapting it to a rear-wheel drive seamless.
Independent Suspension
Like every Subaru*, BRZ features our fully-independent suspension design - struts at the front and a double wishbone layout at the rear to provide outstanding stability and control, coupled with stabilizer bars at each end and optimized to enhance handling and feel.
Details were carefully designed to allow a new level of fun-to-drive experience in which the driver and vehicle become one.
~ The steering wheel was made smaller to achieve sports car maneuverability.
~ A tachometer with digitally displayed speedometer is placed in the
center of the gauges so that the driver can instantly see information
without diverting attention from the road.
~ Bespoke sports car seats were designed to hold the driver and
passenger and feature lowered sitting positions to match the "ultra-low
center of gravity package".
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Engine
Making full use of the design concept of the new-generation Boxer engine, the newly developed engine made exclusively for the BRZ is highly efficient with superior output and environmental friendliness. It realizes an exhilarating high revving nature of a naturally aspirated sports engine.
~ It has square bore and stroke of 86 X 86 mm.
~ Due to the joint development with Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota's
direct injection and port injection technology "D-4S" was incorporated
in the BRZ's power unit.
~ To achieve the "ultra-low center of gravity package", the engine as a
whole has been made more compact by such means as adopting the shorter
intake manifold and the shallower oil pan.
| Transmission
The joy of sports car driving was realized through a transmission that focuses on shift feel and response. ~ The 6-speed MT employs a short stroke shift lever. The lever was optimized in rigidity, shift quality and weight application in its pursuit of a superb shift feel. ~ The 6-speed AT has "S mode" for better shifting response and "M mode" for optional shifting. |
SUBARU BRZ is a rear-wheel drive sports car developed as a joint-project between Subaru and Toyota Motor Corporation, to bring to the world a sports car with superior steering response and driving pleasure that everyone can experience. The Subaru Boxer engine's position, one of the lowest possible centers of gravity on the market today, produces astonishing handling character and combined with a light-weight chassis BRZ realizes Subaru's aim for "Pure Handling Delight" -- the driving experience taken to a new level.
| Check out this video from Gianni Cabiglio of BRZ-Club.com, taken during CES in Las Vegas. He speaks with David Sullivan from Subaru and David Acker from Aha Radio talking about the 2013 Subaru BRZ and Aha Radio integration from CES in Las Vegas January 2012! |
BONUS INFO
Subaru recently debuted the BRZ GT300 at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show. Watch the video below and see it in action!
