Toyota and Subaru have restarted development of Their compact-sport-coupe project. Subaru has just Announced its version of the car Will be Called BRZ. Mighty Toyota's once-popular sporty coupe is set to be reborn as a low-dollar, high-mpg-MX5 Mazda and Hyundai Genesis Coupe-fighter with rear-wheel drive powertrain and a Subaru. Journalists all over are buzzing about the Announced "low-cost sports car" being hatched by Subaru and Toyota. Will sell each brand its own version with specific styling on a shared rear-wheel-drive platform with a Subaru-sourced four-cylinder horizontally opposed engine. In an interview with Digg.com conducted in February 2010, Toyota USA President and CEO Jim Lentz confirmed the company's plans to Produce an "affordable" sports car for the U.S. market. Lentz cited the Toyota FT-86 Concept shown at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show as "a joint-venture product the between Subaru and Toyota ... (that) will be coming to market." A second motivation for Toyota is furthering ties with Subaru parent Fuji Heavy Industries. Itself As for the car, the 2012 Toyota Celica - and its sister Subaru - is rumored to be a sloped-roof hatchback with a slightly larger footprint than the late front-drive Acura RSX coupe (known elsewhere as the Honda Integra). Dimensions Reflect Our numbers are reported on Toyota's Japan media site.
The new sports car Will be based on a unique platform front-engine/rear-wheel drive Toyota Says That Will Ensure "the best possible power-to-weight ratio". On display for the first time in Australia, the FT-86 II Concept is one of Toyota's most aggressive designs to date, and although the production version is Likely to be less dramatic in appearance, Toyota says the concept provides "vital clues" to the production car's design. Spy photos of the born again snapped Toyota Celica That Earlier this year confirmed the vehicle's sporty silhouette Will Remain intact.
Toyota Celica"The 2.0-liter naturally-aspirated engines Brings together the technical know-how and Enthusiasm for sports cars of Both the Subaru and Toyota," reads the official press statement. The concept's rear-wheel drive layout also harks back to Toyota's sports car super giddy period of the 1990s Pls vehicles like the twin turbo Supra rear-wheel ruled the Roost. Toyota Appears to be very serious about its return to the sports car market, also stating that, "The show car was created as part of Toyota's reborn passion for sports-car driving and the intrinsic fun of motoring". A true driver's car from Toyota?
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