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15-08-2014, 11:01 PM
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"Never mind that no one beyond Toyota’s inner circle has driven it. In the eight months since the FT-1 concept debuted at the 2014 Detroit auto show, the most radical Toyota design in years has assumed dream-car status – and it just got a whole lot dreamier.
Shedding its original boy-racer red for a bracing, glossy graphite, the second FT-1 concept bowed on 13 August at the McCall’s Motorworks Revival gala, a pre-party of sorts for the collector-car events centred on northern California’s Monterey peninsula. The weekend culminates on 17 August with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance, where multimillion-dollar prewar machines preen on the 18th green. Toyota has done what it can to suggest the glory days of the automobile still lay ahead. Like the Detroit show car, this second FT-1 came together at the Japanese carmaker’s advanced design studios in southern California. Toyota’s recent styling mojo can be traced directly to the facility, overseen by Kevin Hunter and his band of merry aesthetes, many of them graduates of the nearby Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Preceding the FT-1 out of the studio was the Lexus LF-Lc, a sinuous vision for a premium sports car that also debuted at Detroit, back in 2012. Inside the graphite FT-1 are luxury appointments befitting a grand tourer, including tan saddle leather upholstery, metal mesh and carbon fibre trim details, and taut buttresses of aluminium outlining the driver’s cockpit. Such a laundry list may seem to add up to Ferrari, but the execution owes more to Tony Stark. While Toyota is still mum about the FT-1’s production prospects, gamers can give the concept a shakedown in the Gran Turismo 6 racing simulator. And as TopGear.com notes, a race-ready FT-1 is also in the virtual paddock, under the name – surprise – Vision Gran Turismo." http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140...is-is-a-toyota
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15-08-2014, 11:32 PM
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15-08-2014, 11:51 PM
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My very first thoughts were it looks AMAZING to me. Like a lot.....
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16-08-2014, 12:15 AM
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Make it happen Toyota!
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16-08-2014, 12:36 AM
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How fast and how much?
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16-08-2014, 09:01 AM
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As long as they make it move. I've lost all faith in Toyota bringing out anything more exciting than a sporty Camry. Their cars are about as exciting as having to get up for a 4am shift.
Even if they do build it *cough* we won't see it. Like the old 'Supra'......if you wanted one of those twin turbo screamers you had to import one. Toyota = boring. In saying that though I do hope they start building screamers again.....highly doubt it though. |
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16-08-2014, 12:29 PM
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NOT A TOYOTA :/
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Why do you highly doubt it?
As if this car would come to the market with anything less than rip snorting exhileration. You know it, don't deny it. It should also wear a BMW Z4 badge.
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16-08-2014, 12:47 PM
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The cynic in me says it'll be powered by a slightly tweaked Camry engine.
The optimist is me hopes it'll have the Lexus LFA engine. |
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16-08-2014, 02:48 PM
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"Toyota, for those who've given up on life".
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16-08-2014, 06:24 PM
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Just remember, Toyota are followers not innovators.
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Beautiful car, but I'm sure it's looks will be watered down if it goes into production. The way these high tech Supercars are going, it will be a mix of petrol/hybrid power.
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Toyota have built up the brand with basic cars, got good sales, now they can play...
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Yes..This is a Toyota!!!!!!
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