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Toyota Deciding Name for Production FT-86

Monday, October 26, 2009

Not much time has passed since the introductions at the Tokyo Motor Show. Toyota was no doubt the winner of the show, debuting two performance models, the Toyota FT-86 Concept and the Lexus LFA. The former probably of the most interest to performance enthusiasts (unless you have $375,000…..and even then). So we know the FT-86 [...]

My Realistic Fantasy Garage

Monday, October 19, 2009

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I am entirely aware of the fact that “realistic” and “fantasy” are antonyms. A “Fantasy” garage is packed with the best of the best, picked for possessing an all-star list of attributes. Like a Fantasy Football team, I suppose. A realistic fantasy garage can’t exist, because in the real world circumstances are never ideal for [...]

Retrospective: When Toyota Made Interesting Cars, Part II

Friday, March 13, 2009

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Retrospective: When Toyota Made Interesting Cars, Part II

In a continuation of my previous post on the cool cars Toyota’s forgotten how to build, today we’ll be discussing some larger concepts – as well as some larger cars. First, we’ll talk about a broad overall concept Toyota’s forgotten. Well, it’s not really a concept so much as a specific device. It’s the… Turbocharger! [...]

Retrospective: When Toyota Made Interesting Cars, Part I

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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Retrospective: When Toyota Made Interesting Cars, Part I

Hard to fathom now, but there was a time when Toyota bothered to cater to the enthusiast. They’ve all but forgotten how to do this these days, what with being way too damn busy making boring hybrids and Camrys for Joe Dullard, but Toyota really used to know how to make dependable, exciting, unique vehicles. [...]