I Really hate Subaru right now, this is unacceptable

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Originally Posted by Buster

I've driven them, I totally understand what you mean. Except Subaru never built the LGT to be a badass street shredding car. It was meant to be more powerful than the cars in its class (at the time) still maintain a certain MPG and comfort. Anyone with an Automatic Subaru knows that even in an automatic WRX they arent geared to be all that fast. But gearing is gearing and gearing can be changed. You don't honestly think they are going to gear this car for 5.5k shifts and 32mpgs do you?
Although I like my sports cars to have the extra pedal, it isnt 1972 anymore and we can build a good automatic.

Gearing quite honestly isn't the issue, it's the uber soft shifts, laggy shift response after the paddle is depressed, and the extreme parasitic power loss that are the main problems. And I realize it's not built to be a street shredding car, if one were running a GT30R they should expect issues, but not with a stock turbo and 250whp. 250whp is more than the stock 5EAT can properly handle . . . but check out what the Mitsu SST trans will put up with:
http://forums.evolutionm.net/mitsubi...nsmission.html

Subaru can do much better than the LGT 5EAT.