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.

[boosted_K2]

seriously good god, how many of you could and would ACTUALLY have the available funds to go out and puchase a new sports car tomorrow if toyota put one out? how bout within 6 months? they arent going to cater to dreamers and an unrealist illusion of what most of us think is a "reasonable" price for the type of vehicle. toyota has no intrest sinking funds into projects that wont net much gain. they will just continue to facelift their current product just like cher and madonna until sales begin to decline then they will start over with new product (IE: celica/mrs to scion products). i love the looks of all the new toyotas out there, i think the camry, solara, corolla, hell even the new avalon look fantastic. its the age of the revamping of the midsized family sedan... they missed the boat on the sports car revolution that is likely to begin fading again. however they along with nissan are ahead of the game on the midsized sedans and it shows, skip one fad to be ahead on the next, and if you are looking at profitability theres a lot more of it available in the midsized sedan segment then there is in sports cars.

yaawn... just bored and taking my swing at it.