Listen up Toyota... Options

[creamed_corn]

Get up off your conservative butts and make something fun. Right now you're the only car company out there with nothing even remotely sporty in your lineup.

There's a huge HUGE gap in the fun category between the $15,000 tC and the $35,000 IS.

What they need:

-proper two door, rear wheel drive sports car
-starting around $25,500
-2GR-FE plant to the tune of 300-320 horsepower (they'll wanna stay a little bit ahead of the Z and Mustang, knowing them).
-six speed close ratio gearbox, LSD standard, TCS optional
-Keep the weight reasonable at around 3300-3400lbs.
-I'd like to see gas mileage at around 22 city/30 highway. I'm gonna have a hard enough time keeping my foot off the gas as it is.

This is well within their reach and they need to do it. I've been living off my celica for too long. Ever since I got my new job I've been saving my money, just waiting for a car like this. I just can't bring myself to defect to another company, and if this doesn't happen soon, I'm going to be picking up an MR Sypder next summer.

[nixxx]

A second generation of desire....*sigh*

Supra 5th Generation


Should be powered by a V8 - 450bhp

[creamed_corn]

A second generation of desire....*sigh*

Supra 5th Generation


Should be powered by a V8 - 450bhp

As nice as a 450HP V8 would be, it would never realisitcally happen. Unless, perhaps, they cross-platformed it with Lexus as a new SC (lord knows they need one), but then where would that leave the LF-A?

And there are plenty of sales to be had in this segment. Ford sells over 150,000 Mustangs every year alone, and lets face it, they sell on name alone. There's a huge market out there, and I bet a Supra replacement could easily push 40,000 units annually. The 350Z, S2000, BMW Z roaders, Audi TT, etc... all these cars have been around a long time in one guise or another. Now Chevy is bringing back the Camaro and Dodge the Challenger. There is lasting power in the market. Toyota never learned effective sales management with sporty cars in north america, but boy... could they build them. They dreamt too big; now, with the market thriving and them poised to become the number one manufactureer in the world.... now is the time to do things right.