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they'd never pull it off imo. toyota doesn't know what 'fun' is anymore. and the end result would be wieghed down with legislation happy safety gear. i just don't think it's possible to make a RWD sub 1000kg hatchback anymore at an affordable priceOriginally Posted by kingofthering
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
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Who knows what the hell Scion was thinking when they came out with a BOX car and some other unshapely little thing to represent their Brand...I mean to appeal to the youth is one thing, but no one wants to roll up to a car show, race, to school, or even out of the driveway in a car that looks like that...I mean dont get me wrong the Tc is a fine looking car, but I dislike the FWD platform...not sure what everyone likes now a days, but I think the youth still appeals to RWD & AWD vehicles...soo Sorry Scion, go back to the design board, and fire everyone except for the designer of the Tc, cause he is the only one who knows what happening...
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The xB was the runaway sales leader, why the redesign I dunno
make room for the corporate 2.4L engine
The tC is a nice drive as any really, not bad all scions are so super functional and 'nice' to drive
the xD and xA are just dumb where is the hot hatch like a yaris without looking so top heavy and dumb?
oh that's right the old Vitz was turned into the Yaris
dumb
Scion is at the whim of old people running the division for younger target who ironically wil have the car bought for them by the old people...
they could fix it...make a deal with Suzuki and bring the Cappucino or a new Daihatsu Copen (and Toyota owns Daihatsu now so how hard is it?)
Furniture
do they even make the capuccino anymore? even if they did, it'd be crippled by crash regs, trying to fit your average american in one as opposed to average japanese, etc etc.
use the suzuki swift imo..good looking hatch.
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
Fanatic
The xA looks like it could be a good rally car...
Furniture
Well they are going to try anyway. They've made a deal with Subaru to make a small affordable rear wheel drive coupe.they'd never pull it off imo. toyota doesn't know what 'fun' is anymore. and the end result would be wieghed down with legislation happy safety gear. i just don't think it's possible to make a RWD sub 1000kg hatchback anymore at an affordable price
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Furniture
well, good on them for trying at least; it could very well be a hoot.
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
Furniture
Yeah, like Ferrer said, Subaru might make them a little RWD coupe. Fingers crossed!they'd never pull it off imo. toyota doesn't know what 'fun' is anymore. and the end result would be wieghed down with legislation happy safety gear. i just don't think it's possible to make a RWD sub 1000kg hatchback anymore at an affordable price
Yeah, seriously. Toyota has no sports cars whatsoever! The MR2 Spyder is dead. So's the Celica and Supra! WTF were they thinking???
That's what I heard too.
Enthusiast
Young people want affordable sporty cars that get decent fuel mileage and can haul all their friends and their stuff. I am not saying something with a big V6 or anything because thats makes them less affordable insurance wise to the target market, but maybe a turbo option or something or just a lightweight coupe/hatch with good handling and a decent engine would suffice. I don't know if RWD pushes up insurance prices but it is hard to make a RWD car affordable.
Enthusiast
If people drove properly or didn't feel the need to buy some type of 4X4 or crossover, we wouldn't have all these regulations. Especially considering that we're driving around in tanks these days.they'd never pull it off imo. toyota doesn't know what 'fun' is anymore. and the end result would be wieghed down with legislation happy safety gear. i just don't think it's possible to make a RWD sub 1000kg hatchback anymore at an affordable price
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yea, Smartcar vs Hummer would not go over to well on the highways...talk about a TANK...
Now regarding Bringing back the AE86, that would be awesome, but I doubt that would ever happen...Ohh and speaking of the Hachiroku-Happy AE86 Day...saw it on another forum, since its 8-6-08, I guess all the 86 guys celebrate
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