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Video: The Shocking Differences under the 2022 Subaru BRZ and Toyota GR86

Photo credit: Car and Driver
Photo credit: Car and Driver

Fundamentally, the 2022 Subaru BRZ and the 2022 Toyota GR86 are the same car. The two have the same engine and body structure. It can even be tricky to tell them apart at a distance. Drive the two at speed, as we did for the most recent Lightning Lap at Virginia International Raceway, and you'd be too consumed by fun to notice any differences in handling.

But on the road, these two sports coupes don't drive the same way, and that difference interested our resident suspension expert (and former engineer) Dan Edmunds. He drove both cars over the same twisty canyon two-way and then crawled underneath to try and find the changes.