When Toyota had balls.......
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When Toyota had *****.......
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....
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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....
And Lexus' target demo is not young kids. I think I read that their demo is like males over 50 y/o. For a geriatric, the SC430 is plenty exciting.
But rest assured, they are about to make a big comeback in the sports segment with the LFA.
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.
But then they kept the nicer sedans domestically. Bring back a RWD Celica.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
