President/COO Toyota Motor Sales USA confirms FT-86 coming to North America market!
 

As featured on FT86club BLOG

Digg recently interiewed Jim Lentz, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Toyota Motor Sales USA. In the interview, Mr. Lentz is asked "It has been years since Toyota had a sports car (Supra) available for sale in North America. Are there any plans to bring back the Supra or come out with a new affordable sports car?"

The answer Mr. Lentz provides is that the Supra will not be coming back (so we now know the FT-86 won't be called the "Supra"), but the FT-86 will be coming to market sometime in the near future (including in North America since the question was asked regarding the N. American market)! :happyanim:

You can see the clip here: http://www.ft86club.com/?p=112

Nice to have confirmation. Wish we had more details..

great find! Maybe someone can take this guy out to lunch and ask him more questions....like what engine options we'll have and when the final version will be shown.....:thumbsup:

Interesting but fast forward to around 14:40 unless you want to sit through 15 minutes of throttlegate apologies.

Awesome news thanks for sharing!

Soon hopefully. The buzz over this car is too huge. :thumbsup:

Cool.

i just double failed:thumbdown:, work has too much security and my iphone cant play the video

:mad0259: same here lol

He said eighty-six.....


How.....how dare he!

Even more outrageous, his lips said "eighty-six", but his eyes said "8th gen Celica" :bellyroll:

everytime i have an itch for new information, something comes out on this forum.. i love it.. its like my mind is being read

ok.. so he told us NOTHING we don't already know. thanks.

zzzz

You just getting mad he didn't call it a hachi-roku?
:laughabove:

Edit: Oh yeah. Almost forgot to mention...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LbvFckptY

Or just say 8-6....some representative of Toyota he is!

It was a joke anyways, but it does bring up some pretty funny moments in the past.

Because people call it an eighty-six, I've had more than 1 conversation go this way:

Dude: You own a Corolla GT-S
Me: Yeah, (insert some other ramblings here)
Dude: What year is it?
Me: '85
Dude: Oh, so its not the AE eighty-six?
Me: /facepalm

Americans almost never know the chassis codes for their cars... we like nameplates over here.

And, just in case people are unsure about what car you drive, giant stickers are good too... :bellyroll:

:laughabove:

I was unsure if that was a Camaro or not before, but after seeing that, I KNOW its a Camaro!


Yes, I like this idea!!

:bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll: Lots of LULZ 2day!

well he said it coming, now the question is, WHEN?

^^ and WHAT will be coming? hopefully something closer to the Tokyo concept.

When you say "Tokyo concept"... you mean the ED2 design shown at Tokyo? or the G's design from japan? (the design studio's in Tokyo, right? I could be completely mistaken on this..)