Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 04:28 am, by: Joshua Rao(Soaren1)
Days of the straight six are gone I think.
The question for me is where does the new supra sit. Nissan already made a car that kills everything for a reasonable price.
Where would you aim another performance car at? The only markets I see are the rwd purists (small), 60-150k price tag target audience maybe. Either way it's not gonna be hitting 0-100 near 3 secs anytime
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 09:50 am, by: Dave Rose(Sand_groper)
Think it will be the hybrid kers system that will give the 0-100 3 sec in the $40+ bracket one day . Also Kers will be fitted to the single turbo as well as the normal Kers system this year on F1 cars , no waste gate , no lag .
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 07:53 am, by: Ian Johnston(Ted)
Straight six engines are struggling to meet emissions regs these days. Multi valve V6 is all we will see before long in 6 cyl. Subaru still have the Boxer six, but not sure for how long.
Like the Detroit show car, this second FT-1 came together at the Japanese carmaker’s advanced design studios in southern California. Toyota’s recent styling mojo can be traced directly to the facility, overseen by Kevin Hunter and his band of merry aesthetes, many of them graduates of the nearby Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Preceding the FT-1 out of the studio was the Lexus LF-Lc, a sinuous vision for a premium sports car that also debuted at Detroit, back in 2012.
Inside the graphite FT-1 are luxury appointments befitting a grand tourer, including tan saddle leather upholstery, metal mesh and carbon fibre trim details, and taut buttresses of aluminium outlining the driver’s cockpit. Such a laundry list may seem to add up to Ferrari, but the execution owes more to Tony Stark.
I take it as a good sign that they use the term, 'grand tourer'. - MD.
Saturday, August 16, 2014 - 08:28 pm, by: Boris Siljanoski(Z2tt)
What I hate about Toyota these days is they make lovely concepts and small production cars, but then release something dumbed down to the mainstream market.
Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 05:35 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Just from the panel work it looks like it would be way too expensive to produce as a mainstream car anyway, it looks more complex to construct than hand made cars like the Huayra or Aventador let alone anything that comes off a robotic production line.
Then again, Toyota have a history of coming up with innovative tooling techniques.
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