Soaring High: The Lexus SC and Toyota Soarer Coupes
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I've read the article before. It gives a very good idea of just how different the Soarer VVT-i's are from the twin turbos. Lexus USA made such a blundering mistake not to certify the Soarer drivetrain options just as they were for the USA SC's. Doing just enough for the time really wasn't enough. In the end, only enthusiasts now recognize these cars as performance luxury cars. The R&D was already completed....
Edit: My mistake, wrong article. I have read the one the OP posted and it is a very good primer on the history of the car. I was thinking of this one (linked) because I mixed up the titles in my head: http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=109457
Edit: My mistake, wrong article. I have read the one the OP posted and it is a very good primer on the history of the car. I was thinking of this one (linked) because I mixed up the titles in my head: http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=109457
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I've read the article before. It gives a very good idea of just how different the Soarer VVT-i's are from the twin turbos. Lexus USA made such a blundering mistake not to certify the Soarer drivetrain options just as they were for the USA SC's. Doing just enough for the time really wasn't enough. In the end, only enthusiasts now recognize these cars as performance luxury cars. The R&D was already completed....
Edit: My mistake, wrong article. I have read the one the OP posted and it is a very good primer on the history of the car. I was thinking of this one (linked) because I mixed up the titles in my head: http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=109457
Edit: My mistake, wrong article. I have read the one the OP posted and it is a very good primer on the history of the car. I was thinking of this one (linked) because I mixed up the titles in my head: http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=109457
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Found this article on the SC today, thought some of you may enjoy it.
http://ateupwithmotor.com/component/...ticle/181.html
http://ateupwithmotor.com/component/...ticle/181.html
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Good article...my uncle and I always had similar tastes and were actually restoring our cars togethr(he left me his 89 sec560 r.i.p) its awesome to know my car was initially intended to compete in the same market.
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I love the line , "Rather than beginning with sketches and translating them into clay models, as is customary in automotive styling, they developed early design concepts using plaster-filled balloons."
This is a very common practice (an ages old technique!) in entry level art/sculpture classes to use
"plaster-filled balloons" to create very organic sorts of 3D shapes. Mix up the plaster, pour into a balloon, form said balloon into any number of shapes (many ways to do this) as the plaster begins to harden. (You can also introduce "air pockets' into the balloon if need be). Once plaster has hardened, remove balloon skin, and cut,sand, chisel, etc and fine tune to final shape. If you have ever done this sort of thing, you'd know how VERY easy it is to do. That said, it is easy to see how the SC's basic shape was formed using this plaster filled balloon technique. The Calty design team was certainly using the old "KISS " principle when using this technique to design the SC's basic shape. I say a job extremely well done!
This is a very common practice (an ages old technique!) in entry level art/sculpture classes to use
"plaster-filled balloons" to create very organic sorts of 3D shapes. Mix up the plaster, pour into a balloon, form said balloon into any number of shapes (many ways to do this) as the plaster begins to harden. (You can also introduce "air pockets' into the balloon if need be). Once plaster has hardened, remove balloon skin, and cut,sand, chisel, etc and fine tune to final shape. If you have ever done this sort of thing, you'd know how VERY easy it is to do. That said, it is easy to see how the SC's basic shape was formed using this plaster filled balloon technique. The Calty design team was certainly using the old "KISS " principle when using this technique to design the SC's basic shape. I say a job extremely well done!
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