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The
Scion FR-S was just named the
Hottest Sport Compact at the
2012 SEMA Show, and Toyota Racing Development (
TRD) is apparently looking to make this car a little hotter. According to
Car and Driver, TRD is close to coming up with a supercharger to fit to the car's 2.0-liter flat-four engine in order to squeeze out a little more performance. Currently, the FR-S produces 200 horsepower, but there's no guessing how much a supercharger could improve this figure.
With
Subaru seemingly hard at work on a new
turbo engine for the BRZ and even
possibly a BRZ STI model, it is only logical for a force-fed FR-S to be in the works as well. Surprisingly, though, the report says that supercharger would be unique to the FR-S, but since the
Scion and
Subaru BRZ are mechanically identical, it isn't clear how this would be accomplished. TRD already offers plenty of upgrades for the FR-S such as exhaust, brake and suspension kits, and it offers a handful of superchargers for other models including the 5.7-liter V8 used in the
Toyota Tundra and the 4.0-liter V6 used in the
Tacoma.
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