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Sweet ride. They need to start making some of these concept vehicles into production models. Not just use some cues from them.
A lot of talk coming out of the Toyota camp...........Somethings coming, but will it be a Supra, or a Supra-substitute. This time it looks like sub.
I don't know if I want to be in an accident with that hump between my legs
I don't know if I want to be in an accident with that hump between my legs
ForcedTorque said:
That'd be the fold out urinal for long road trips. :biglaugh:
EDIT: So it also includes a sporty child seat and knee brace???
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Yea I'm not really feeling the 'seperated buttcheek" seats, or the vertical stacked dash.
Looks like a cool concept other than that though.
Looks like a cool concept other than that though.
will this car ever make it to production? :umno:
and if it does, it will look almost nothing like the concept.
and if it does, it will look almost nothing like the concept.
I just wanted to steal the wheels for my car, and maybe that auto whatever thingee in the seat too.:aigo:
da89soup said:
Thanks
I wonder if they will make them in that "special" blue you like??:icon_bigg
In my oppinion it's a pile of crap. This whole obsession with hybrids is bullshit, and the only thing I will ever invest in as far as alternative energy is a cleaner burning substitute that still runs in a modern engine. These hybrids like the Prius and the Civic hybrid seem like great ideas until you have to replace the batteries, and the part of the story that the environmental idiots forget is that the manufacturing process of the batteries creates HUGE amounts of VERY toxic polution. Industry is our biggest polluter, not motor vehicles. This is very obvious every time a well taken care of vehicle passes a smog test. If you observe the numbers posted on the results, the amount of pollution put out by a modern vehicle is NOTHING compared to what comes out of a factory's stack. Electric and hybrid cars can suck my perverbial dick.
Nissan is releasing the Skyline to the Unites States, yes? This means that there is still a market for turbocharged Japanese sportcars big enough for a company to make this commitment. Honda is building their replacement for the NSX, not turbocharged, but not a damned hybrid either. These guys get it, but Toyota is too busy trying to please all these idiots who are misinformed. The common understandind is that turbocharged cars are dirty and unreliable. While at some point in not too distant history this was true, now it's just that- history. The Skyline will pass the strict California emission test, so what's to say that it's not clean? Fuel economy? Who cares. Does a person buying a new Z06 Corvette with the enormous LS7 engine worry about fuel economy? No, but just the fact that the Skyline will have a 3.5 twin-turbo V6 means it will be getting considerably better economy than a Vette. Nissan gets the idea. Toyota doesn't. The only thing that Toyota can do at this point in time to regain my love is to release something similar to a MKIV Supra with the natural refinements that have been developed since 1998 when the Supra left the dealers of America- more efficient engines, computers, and low emissions. I would love to see an inline 6, but at this point I'd be happy with a sporty 2 seater or 2+2 coupe built along the lines of the new Lexus lineup, which imho are some dead sexy cars, with a turbocharged V6 or V8. I also heard a rumor a while back that Toyota purchased Honda's SH-AWD (Super-Handling All-Wheel-Drive) system for use in a twin-turbo sports car. I'm still waiting for a real car, and I'm fed up with their pathetic prototypes of POS hybrid sportcars. Even Honda is building turbo cars now for christ sake. Toyota is falling out of my good graces as far as high-performance cars are concerned. I will never knock their ability to build great cars and trucks, but they seem to have forgotten what a real sportscar is.
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Collin
Nissan is releasing the Skyline to the Unites States, yes? This means that there is still a market for turbocharged Japanese sportcars big enough for a company to make this commitment. Honda is building their replacement for the NSX, not turbocharged, but not a damned hybrid either. These guys get it, but Toyota is too busy trying to please all these idiots who are misinformed. The common understandind is that turbocharged cars are dirty and unreliable. While at some point in not too distant history this was true, now it's just that- history. The Skyline will pass the strict California emission test, so what's to say that it's not clean? Fuel economy? Who cares. Does a person buying a new Z06 Corvette with the enormous LS7 engine worry about fuel economy? No, but just the fact that the Skyline will have a 3.5 twin-turbo V6 means it will be getting considerably better economy than a Vette. Nissan gets the idea. Toyota doesn't. The only thing that Toyota can do at this point in time to regain my love is to release something similar to a MKIV Supra with the natural refinements that have been developed since 1998 when the Supra left the dealers of America- more efficient engines, computers, and low emissions. I would love to see an inline 6, but at this point I'd be happy with a sporty 2 seater or 2+2 coupe built along the lines of the new Lexus lineup, which imho are some dead sexy cars, with a turbocharged V6 or V8. I also heard a rumor a while back that Toyota purchased Honda's SH-AWD (Super-Handling All-Wheel-Drive) system for use in a twin-turbo sports car. I'm still waiting for a real car, and I'm fed up with their pathetic prototypes of POS hybrid sportcars. Even Honda is building turbo cars now for christ sake. Toyota is falling out of my good graces as far as high-performance cars are concerned. I will never knock their ability to build great cars and trucks, but they seem to have forgotten what a real sportscar is.
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Collin
got_boosted said:
Yes, but do you like the design? :naughty:
I think this is exactly the kind of feedback Toyota needs to get from this car. I mean, the idea is right, design wise (2+2 sports). They need something like this now.
What I would hope is still up in the air is the engine option. For the sake of Collin and everyone around him, I for one hope there is no hybrid motor in this car. Innovative, yes (kinda); nessacery, no. Having a sports car that runs on batteries seems all but sporty. Untill the technology is taken up more seriously by any given company, Hybrid sports car will not be much of a rage. I think Toyota is 'moving forward' way too fast. Why not stick to the basics and just build a car..?
I hope Toyota gets all the right feedback on this thing and sees it out the right way. Perhaps the powertrain will make a concept to production model swap, and the real car (if produced) will get a real engine.
wow im tired haha i hope that made sense.
Edit: oh yeah, according to the gage cluster pic, its an automatic... surprise, surprise.
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My initial thought was that they could make it crazy fast from like 0 to 30, electric, and by then a big turbo is all spooled up, and the motor starts, and like 500 hp gas power kicks in. i dunno.
trydrew said:
Hahaha! I'm not going to go crazy and kill everybody in sight if Toyota completely destroys their image that they created with the Supras as a company capable of building badass sportscars by taking all our hopes and dreams of a new Supra and beating them to death with an electric motor and batteries. I just won't be buying it.
That and (modern) Toyota will be dead to me. lolCollin
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Ok seriously though, cool looking concept, but it'll never make it.
Post 1999 Toyota FTL!!!!!!
Ok seriously though, cool looking concept, but it'll never make it.
Word on the street here in Japan is that Toyota is considering building a hybrid Celsior (Lexus LS430 in North America). It's rummored to have a powerful hybrid engine in it. Somewhere in the ballpark of 4 or 500 PS. But I'am with some of these folks here. Toyota has seriously fallen off the beaten path in regards to building cars that are actually fun to drive. They are seemingly on the road to automotive world domination, but I dont forsee anything like that happening if they are refusing to build a 20-35K sports car. I mean, they can't let Nissan, Ford & soon to be Chevy & Dodge from taking over this segment can they?
its a nice concepts but still its only a concept, I doubt that Toyota would produce any new real sports cars, in best case they would make something similar to 2zz celica's with hybrid energy motors