I was watching "God of Gamblers", and durring a shootout in a parking garage, there's a blue EA81 coupe, and there's a close-up of it's badge - it's a "1600 GFT-5"

 

Anyone want to speculate on what that badging might mean? Maybe that's one of those dual carb 1600's?

 

Just thought that was kinda cool. Never seen that before. Anyone else seen any weird badges like that?

 

GD

outside of the US, there were lots of different designations. The SRX was the rally spec hatchback available in Europe.

 

I have seen a hatchback 1600 GL-5 in a yard....

What's a GL-5, a hatch in GL-10 trim?

the 81 glf we called the DL-10?.

the 2wd to 4wd conversion sedan is called the GL-7

I'm pretty sure that a GL-5 was just a GL with a 5-spd. There were also DL-5 cars which were... you guessed it, DLs with 5-spds. For instance, I own an "1800 DL Automatic". It has that whole name on the badge. I guess anything that wasn't a plain vanilla 4-spd was considered noteworthy in the early years.

I wonder why they decided to call the GL-10 the GL-10. They were never offered with D/R 5-speeds. Maybe because you could fit a ten-speed on the roof rack?

My wagon was a 2WD 5 speed, and it's just a GL...... so there goes that theory on the GL-5. Nice try tho. hehe

 

GL-5 and GL-10 aren't that weird tho - have seen those, and they were sold here....

 

But what in the world is a GFT-5? It must stand for something - they don't just pick letters out of the air - the designer must have had some reason for picking that combination.....

 

GD

GFT-5 good fast turbo-5speed ?

 

GL Great Luxury ?

 

GL-5 Great Luxury 5-speed?

 

GL-10 Great Luxury with 10 options?

 

 

heh i dunno as you can tell..

So your saying it was a 1600 Turbo 5 speed

 

methinks not, but I've been wrong before.

 

GD

Lets throw in another variable...

 

EA81T wagons...

 

"Turbo-10"

 

Ive seen 2 of them in my life, both red wagons with turbos and auto trannys

Flo - all EA81T's were auto's.

 

GD

I know... but I swear I heard of someone having a turbo coupe with a stick from the Factory (probably special ordered) Richie???

 

But yes I know the typical turbo unless its some special ordered one will be an auto.

You couldn't order them with a stick - Subaru wanted a degree of control over their still experimental turbo engine. They didn't want a bunch of people blowing them up and comming back to the dealership all pissed off if the engine turned out to be a crap pile.

 

It was probably partially due to the lack of a 5 speed 4WD tranny for the EA81's as well as possible durrability issues with the early trannies. The Auto suck so much power right off the top that it's not so much of an issue, and Subaru gets to decide what RPM's you shift at.... etc.

 

At any rate, it wasn't an option. If it were, I'm sure MANY more would have been ordered.

 

Now there may have been some vintage swaps done after the fact, or even in 85 when the 5 speed D/R came out. Someone probably realized that their 84 could take a 5 speed, and threw it in - I'll bet that happened more than once in fact.

 

But never from the factory....

 

GD

If they don't pick letters out of the air, how'd we end up with FF-1, FFE, STD? (I think DL is "Devoid of Luxury".)

DL = Dont Like

 

you guys would stop driving subarus if i told you what XT stood for

STD= sexually Transmited disease= avoid this car like one, didn't these have the least options and stuff?

STD S ARE THE BEST.

 

accessories weigh alot more, i would pick an std any day. as long as it had tilt.

all i know is gl is grand luxury no doubt

I was just filling in the letters, when I was a newbie, some one on the board said he got a std, I was a little confused.