FT86 Concept and the production 86.
Fwiw, a cabin with zippers on the dash and capacitive radio buttons through leather was never intended for production lol.
In the end, all I care about is easy-to-read instruments, low enough scuttle for good visibility and placement, low enough seat for...
While I def agree with your main point, luckily there are plenty of Toyota people on these forums and they live and breathe cars just like we do. They're def seeing the comments and complaints, so being vocal is good!
Try, the entire chassis, heads, trans, diff, interior/exterior styling, as well as nearly all of the suspension design. Subaru stamping their name on that car is a product of them manufacturing it, not that they designed it.
I know we're beating a dead horse here, but ten seconds at Spa... :cool:
Here are my (admittedly poor) color photoshops! Tried to just hit all the colors in the spectrum lol. Apologies for the slight yellow fringing, too lazy to clean up the edges :p.
And one with the pillar colored because I'm a freak like that :O
Interior looks to still be covered as well. I'm still hopeful that we'll get a more production-accurate version of the interior in the Japanese prototype.
Not a Toyota-employed engineer, just a regular one who's been in plenty of Toyota manufacturing facilities and had the pleasure of being around a lot of LCs. No way they could get that thing down to 3600 in a production car man. And again dude, you gotta drive one. It is not and could not be a...
I think you'll find that anyone who has at this point is not allowed to talk about it. I know of the few industry people on this forum and while I'm sure at least one or two of them have most likely been in one, none of them would utter a word about it! :dunno:
No way in hell you could make an LC mid-3000s. That car is freaking massive. I've spent some time checking out the unibody of the LC and it is not a chassis that was designed to be light by any means. I'm telling you guys, go drive an LC and you'll see that it's not like a Supra at all, it's a...
Well, spy photos aren't in Toyotas control. Photos are going to be taken regardless, and they can't just leak everything to get forum dwellers like us excited. This stuff is under wraps because it goes through dozens of iterative changes and the manufacturer doesn't need people to see all 10-15...
My running theory is that these interiors are BMW parts bin stuff and have been around since the early prototypes, but the actual Toyota-spec interiors are on the test cars in Japan, not Germany.
Might just be wishful thinking though. :dunno:
The mechanicals are mostly the same. I spoke to Aasbo and Papdakis a little while back and they didn't change much as far as big stuff goes, just revised a bunch of small stuff for this year. They're still using JZA80 diffs and axles too, much to the chagrin of Supra owners loll