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No ^ But the higher spec one is actually pretty awesome despite having the wrong name. If I was Toyota I would have just changed the front and rear end and cut most of the options and sold it as a Celica. It handles better than the I6 car due to actually being 50/50 and it's far lighter overall.

yes, current N.A. target (at least for this year are) appears to be ~4k cars. now that I seemingly figured out the confusion around the 6k/12k break down, this also makes more sense given the production we have seen reported from other markets as well.

I actually just went back into previous threads because something about this seemed off to me and has since earlier in the week when I was commenting on it, and I think I figured out what it was. they wanted to do 6k units for the first year (internally), but the public quote from last year was...

yeah, you really can't compare A80 sales to the A90 (or rather shouldn't). the situation is completely different aside from having the same name and badge, and of course it would be 26 years later.

~4k units is supposedly the figure for this year for N.A.; they wanted to do 6k originally (not terribly far off) 12k was the goal for 2020+, but I doubt they're going to get anywhere near that. Either way, those are targets and they can easily change and possibly already have. As to where I...

12,000 per year for N.A. was the goal last I heard, but that may have been wishful thinking lol. IIRC, they wanted to do 6000 this year, but looking like it's only gonna be like 5k overall.

This is incorrect. Not only did Toyota independently tear down and test the B58 in Japan, they also submitted revision reports to BMW which are essentially proposals to re-engineer parts including the issue/remedy. To what degree these proposals were implemented is debatable, but either way the...

in one of the numerous delivery videos they do a walk around of the car from underneath and show the entire exhaust system of the car. It might be the Grannas Racing one iirc EDIT: (16:22)

If the car was developed in house sure, but it wasn't, and that complicates things exponentially. There are several factors here not present with the Tacoma and Corolla and for a 7-10% payoff on a 12k unit per year platform? Egh, tough sell right there. Speaking of which, Corolla manual will...

No idea, but I'm curious if it was a recall or TSB.

if you think Toyota sent out "ringer cars," you should definitely visit Area 51 in September. All the answers will become clear.

Toyota as a company is actually pretty close with Mazda. There is of course the corporate stuff, but a lot of our folks hang out with their people and vice versa. Akio has actually put Mazda stuff on Gazoo media channels previously as a result of this. I personally love Mazda as a company, so...

heard yesterday that the manual take rate forecast for the car was 7-10% lol

Other than the ones being tested in the GT4, no.

I feel that is what the aftermarket is eventually going to be honestly, and I don't think it's gonna be all that hard or expensive once it's more prolific. The issue for now is efficiency and weight, both of which are problems even for vehicles designed ground up as EV, which is why Toyota was...

I typo'd that and then corrected, but *2026+ is when larger changes might become more apparent. Either way, it's coming...

Still a little ways out, but there's a reason that the majority of our R&D budgets have been in electric, autonomous driving, and AI for the past several years.

just you wait! a little longer... we're getting ready to show something off :)

Tada wanted to do that with the 86 and wasn't really able to for several reasons, but he has previously stated intentions to do so with the A90 so we shall see.

I mean, this was pretty much the last hurrah anyways, at least for petrol tech.