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Old 12-15-07, 12:14 AM
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Funny but I never owned a Toyota and to be honest, not a huge Toyota fan. I do love their methods of business and their execution and how they just dominate in most categories.

When I was younger, those cars were something to think about. Today, the poor Toyota fan has nothing to get a hard on about, unless you find a Camry SE stimulating......You have to jump to Scion....even Lexus offers no coupe outside the SC 430, which is simply not what most young kids want.


Sad really....
 
Old 12-15-07, 12:22 AM
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That pic is just depressing..........................
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Old 12-15-07, 12:41 AM
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Old 12-15-07, 01:18 AM
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They had huevos when they had RWD offerings across the line-up even if they didn't have much performance. FWD was the beginning of the downhill slide. But then they kept the nicer sedans domestically.

Bring back a RWD Celica.
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Old 12-15-07, 01:37 AM
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The Celica All Trac and Toyota MR-2 were among my favorite cars at the time. I was dead set on getting an MR-2 right until the NSX came out. Sometimes I still think about picking up an MR-2.
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Old 12-15-07, 01:59 AM
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^I miss my MR2

For the price you couldn't get a nicer Mid engine car like that.
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The Celica GT4/All Trac is by far my favorite car ever, hands down.

I would love to see it brought back and compete with (and demolish ) the Evo and WRX.

It'll probably never happen though
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Old 12-15-07, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by JDM
^I miss my MR2

For the price you couldn't get a nicer Mid engine car like that.
The only Toyotas (not including Lexus) my family has ever owned were an MR2 and a Supra. It'll probably stay that way until something major changes over there. The only Toyota I'd look at buying would be a 4Runner. Their cars are nothing special, they're just bland.
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Old 12-15-07, 08:16 AM
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only toyotas i would by currently are the avalon, land cruiser, or for runner, but honeslt, my favorite toyota would be an all black 1997 supra, its such a nice car
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Old 12-15-07, 08:33 AM
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Good thread.

I think most of us respect Toyota's dominance in quality high volume manufacturing processes and a lot of the good ergonomics and function design in the line-up. To grow they decided to focus on the broadest segments of the market and not niches like sporty coupes which never sell in high numbers.

They're a very 'rational' company, but with little (almost NO) passion, emotion, art in anything really, except maybe the exotic but far off LF-A.

But hey, most people want bland and reliable.
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Old 12-15-07, 08:39 AM
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The supra and MR-2 Turbo were the only two toyotas I have ever been excited about.

Can't tell you how **** I was when toyota decided to replace the MR-2 with this (fill in the blank):

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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
Good thread.

I think most of us respect Toyota's dominance in quality high volume manufacturing processes and a lot of the good ergonomics and function design in the line-up. To grow they decided to focus on the broadest segments of the market and not niches like sporty coupes which never sell in high numbers.

They're a very 'rational' company, but with little (almost NO) passion, emotion, art in anything really, except maybe the exotic but far off LF-A.

But hey, most people want bland and reliable.
Yeah, I do have a great deal of respect for their logic and execution. I mean they are a GLOBAL powerhouse. However, its amazing the 180 that occurred as they HAD more sporty offerings than most companies.

Amazing. The teases and concepts are tiring. If you are young, you probably don't even know Toyota exists outside of getting your moms hand me down Camry.
 
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This article goes well with this thread

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/artic...&topart=sports
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Old 12-15-07, 08:50 AM
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I agree completely with this. It's sad just thinking about it.
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Old 12-15-07, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ksxxsk
Wow. What is that?
Toyota Sera
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