kamran
Well-Known Member
I went to the Seattle show today to see if I could find a higher up insider to have a private chat. Well I ended up talking with a couple of girls from the corporate who were much more than just pretty faces! They were very well knowlegable about FT1 to my surprise and they went on to say that they could assure me there won't be an FT1, anytime. There will be a sport car joint venture developed by BMW and Toyota, but it will look nothing like FT1. They noted several features on FT1 that would not pass DOT, as well as sheet metal parts that would not be feasible to fabricate.
They said the joint venture car will take three years to hit the market. But it'll be different.
I told them there are already several new designs that have thaken their queues from FT1, and they said they know, but that didn't mean FT1 will be introduced as presented in the concept. I asked why they went to the extent of doing two concept cars, they said they wanted to exercise the two variation, sport (red) with light weight Carbon interior and a luxury (silver) with the high end interior.
I told them point blank that I'm holding off buying a sport car if FT1 or similar is coming out, they said go ahead and buy whatever you want because anything coming will be at least three years away!
Talked to a Porsche rep and trying to see if there's a chance of a GT4, but I think it's unlikely one would be available at msrp. But I'm giving them a chance to see what they can do.
I guess no point ordering any sport cars with winter coming. I'll most likely wait until January Detroit show to see if any news of mid engine C8 Zora, and November here soon we will have the Tokyo show too and if I don't hear anything else about FT1 or C8, I'll pull the plug and start growing my porn-star mustache and buy the best performing car out there for the money which I reported in another post impressing the hell out of me with its track capabilities! I never thought I'd ever see that day, but it's closer that I thought! Mustache and gold chains, here I come....! Just need to gain weight and grew bald!
They said the joint venture car will take three years to hit the market. But it'll be different.
I told them there are already several new designs that have thaken their queues from FT1, and they said they know, but that didn't mean FT1 will be introduced as presented in the concept. I asked why they went to the extent of doing two concept cars, they said they wanted to exercise the two variation, sport (red) with light weight Carbon interior and a luxury (silver) with the high end interior.
I told them point blank that I'm holding off buying a sport car if FT1 or similar is coming out, they said go ahead and buy whatever you want because anything coming will be at least three years away!
Talked to a Porsche rep and trying to see if there's a chance of a GT4, but I think it's unlikely one would be available at msrp. But I'm giving them a chance to see what they can do.
I guess no point ordering any sport cars with winter coming. I'll most likely wait until January Detroit show to see if any news of mid engine C8 Zora, and November here soon we will have the Tokyo show too and if I don't hear anything else about FT1 or C8, I'll pull the plug and start growing my porn-star mustache and buy the best performing car out there for the money which I reported in another post impressing the hell out of me with its track capabilities! I never thought I'd ever see that day, but it's closer that I thought! Mustache and gold chains, here I come....! Just need to gain weight and grew bald!
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