You probably know by now that the Toyota FT-1 Concept – originally unveiled at the 2014 Detroit Motor Show – is making its UK debut at the Goodwood Moving Motor Show and Festival of Speed between Thursday June 25 and Sunday June 28.
What you won’t know however, is that we’ve commissioned...
Toyota’s Calty Design Research Celebrates Its 40th Year and a Rich Sports Car Design Heritage
From humble beginnings, Calty Design Research has become a pre-eminent automotive design center strongly influencing Toyota vehicle designs
Calty studios play a critical role in Toyota’s North American...
Toyota has a fascinating history when it comes to sports cars. The 2000GT of the 1960s was powered by a Yamaha-developed twin-cam straight-six and styled with enough sex appeal that a topless version -- one of two built -- earned a supporting role in the 007 classic "You Only Live Twice." The...
Interesting take by this author on the FR-S sales downward trend.
http://blog.caranddriver.com/why-scion-fr-s-sales-have-plunged-the-life-and-times-of-an-ultra-niche-product/
Why Scion FR-S Sales Have Plunged: The Life and Times of an Ultra-Niche Product
When Toyota announced it was going to...
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/03/24/toyota-bmw-sports-car-to-gain-all-wheel-drive-supercapacitors/
I had to post this if no other reason for a laugh :D
On my way to pick up more salt!
The question on a lot of people's minds when talking about a company as successful as Toyota is whether they need a car like the Supra. They have been doing just fine it for many years now.
I know Akio Toyoda is a serious gearhead and wants to see this car personally but how does the company...
I posted the pics from the Calty studio here:
http://www.supramkv.com/threads/inside-caltys-studio-and-the-ft1-design-process.9/
Birth of a FT-1 concept
March 2012: Calty makes pitch to Toyota top management
May 2012: Toyota gives formal go-ahead for Calty to begin work
June 2012: Calty team...
You think we'll see the roughly 2-3 years time span from concept to production that we saw with FT-86?
That would put it into the early 2016 calendar year...
Now don't get too excited... but an NSX was out testing at Nurburgring yesterday and it was kind of an odd sight. It was following a stock Mark IV Supra. Da heck?! (is what you should be thinking).
Was Toyota just running an old Supra for giggles at the Ring or was there more to it? Well the...
The only thing we really know about what the Supra and BMW sports car will be sharing is some kind of shared platform but what about everything else - engine, suspension, tranmission, driving aids, technology, styling?
Personally I just want BMW's carbon fiber chassis and maybe suspension since...