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.

[sinner96ST]

This thread does matter, it shows that Toyota does indeed have a dedicated base to the 'last' of the sports cars that they produced.

If you sit here and tell me there isnt traffic on any Celica, MR2, or Supra sites, you'd be a god damned liar. We're all customers, whether or not you believe it. The majority of us are all potential buyers of a new sports car if they were to release one.

The problem is, that they haven't released anything *in comparison* to other car manufacturers. Nissan, Mitsubishi, Subrau, they've all got their powerful little sports cars, while Toyota is stuck with the 2k Celica & MR-S.

Nobody is whining in this thread. I like Toyota, I believe in their craftsmanship & dependability. I want to see more of the same like we had back in the 90's. End of story. I'm not whining, I'm not wishing, I'm simply stating that I'm disappointed that Toyota isn't producing anything worthy of every single one of my paychecks.

I'm a 26 year old guy, and I like speed. I don't like sedan's or SUV's, but I like Toyota. So, what do I do? The tC does not deliver, netiher does anything else that they have in the market. So, this means i'm starting to look to other car manufacturers, potentially losing Toyota a sale on a car that they *SHOULD* be selling.

That's what this thread is all about. We want more, they aren't giving it to us. So, in the future, when we're all ready to get rid of the 6th gen's, we will be looking at other manufacturers for a sports car. That's the reality of it.

This post has been edited by sinner96ST: Sep 12, 2006 - 1:08 PM