Totoya planning sub FT86 RWD car

[Coligny]

http://www.worldcarfans.com/11308096131 ... ive-sports

Because costing just a bit more than a Honda Fit was already too much ?

Self aware of the prestige of their product at least...

[wuchan]

it's been a rumor for some time now.

The longer story is Akio is greedy. The new car is a concept to answer the rumored Beat which will either not happen or will be a total failure.

The 86 was put together because nissan was doing research and testing to see if a S16 silvia could be a profitable venture. Instead it seems that they will be making the fairlady smaller and give it a turbo four.

The supra is in the works. This seems like a image project like the LFA and will probably cost a silly amount of money. There is a rumor of a JDM only turbo six, two door NISMO V37 skyline for 2015, so the supra may happen.

[Coligny]

Those guy are the exact opposite of Renault under Louis Schweitzer/Patrick Le Quemant:

I can picture their meetings...

Hey, why not make a minivan... 3 doors coupe ?
I SAY... LET S GO!!! (renault Avantime commercial flop, produced for 1 year, collector value, sell for one kidney and one or two lungs)

Dood, top of the line luxury bispace shaped like a 1970 science fiction Hoover vacuum cleaner...
DONE... Before the blueprint were even dry... (Vel Satis, produced for years, not really sure they sold any though, often used as official car for international events).

Let's put a ghetto booty on the new Megane 2 (bread and butter of the company)
Luckily, selling like hotcakes...

20 years ago the Twingo: lets make a small city car shaped like a frog on PCP and available only in five crayola colors (Barbie Pink, radioactive yellow, wtf blue, cannabis green and OMG purple) in the first years the backorder was biblical.

Plus all the usual madness...
What aboot 182 bhp engine in the clio... Easy... Done...
So, what aboot a midship rwd V6 Clio... Same... Easy... Done...
Megane... 250 bhp, no rearseat, standard rollcage, lexan rear window streetlegal... Also... Done deal (there is two like this in Toyohashi, driven by 60 yo grand ma's, leaving beamers behind at the red light...)
2 seat spider, no roof (not even folding) no windshield, street legal... Done: Renault Sport Spider

I wonder how much cocaine their technocentre research center consumed per year... But it was certainly not an easy line to hide in their yearly accounting reports...



TOTOYA meeting:

So what are the other doing these days ?

[Kanchou]

http://www.worldcarfans.com/113080961317/toyota-considering-an-entry-level-rear-wheel-drive-sports

Because costing just a bit more than a Honda Fit was already too much ?

Self aware of the prestige of their product at least...

A base model fit is 1,200,000 yen.

The base model 86 is over 2,000,000 after fees, and assuming you buy proper wheels and tires for it, and paint the bumper it's more like 2,300,000... and fully loaded they are over 3,000,000.

In my opinion, more sports cars = more better.

The problem being that the 86 is already an entry-level sports car. What we need is a turbocharged 2.5 liter version of the 86.