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Originally Posted by nikitopo
I think most of the people are for the looks first. Subaru wanted to propose an alternative point of view with the RA edition in Japan. This is a stripped down edition with much less weight. They even installed a smaller battery to gain some more weight. The overall weight of this car is 1190 kg.
So, it looks strange why to put steelies. If they wanted a not very expensive light-weight wheel solution, they could put the manufactured by Enkei 16" wheels that come as standard in the R version. The same holds also for the RA Racing edition which is even more expensive from the R version.
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LOL....you're so wrong buddy. Nothing against your preference for using steelies on your car, but you should at least know the reason why the RA and the RC versions come equipped with steel wheels. The only reason is so that the car can roll off the production line and generally be moved about until it gets to the customer. That's all. Not for looks and definitely not to 'propose an alternative point of view' to these cars. Not to save weight either. They use them because it's cheap and the customers who buy these versions will junk them and replace with their own choice of wheels and tires for competition use.