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Originally Posted by zdr93523
If you look again at all of those pics you posted, the only two center stack/knee pads that are IDENTICAL are the Cayman and the 86.
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Except that they're not. They're not the same shape, they're not the same height and they're not laid out the same way. I can't see how anybody can look at those two center consoles and say that Toyota "copied" Porsche.
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Originally Posted by zdr93523
But they certainly copied that center stack/knee pad area and the shape of the steering wheel center section/spokes.
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Except that the shape of the steering spokes is not unique to either car. The bottom split spoke is right out of the Triumph I posted, and the shape of the distribution of the spokes is the same as the MGB. The MR2 also had that same shape.
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Originally Posted by zdr93523
They also have the same windshield rake, same roof line, same window line, are the same size overall, etc...
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Except that the roof is flatter because of the roof ridges (thank the gods), which were taken directly from the 2000GT, and the windshield rake hasn't been unique since the 60s. If you look at the profile view of this car, it's closer to a 350Z than to a Cayman (which, by the way, also predates the Cayman, so if similarity=copying, Porsche seems to be copying anybody that comes along). I always thought this car looked like Toyota took a 350Z and removed all the ugly.
These are all details where form follows function. You're going to end up with a similar profile for a lot of sports cars because of wind tunnels. The steering wheel has the downward swept spokes specifically to facilitate shuffle steering (as opposed to hand-over-hand), which is why the MGB was laid out that way. They're going to have center consoles because that's just convenient. There's just no evidence here that Toyota "copied" Porsche, when the details you pointed out are not really unique to either car.
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Originally Posted by zdr93523
It is funny that you think I hate my BRZ, because I'm going to a PCA HPDE event next month and which car am I taking??? I'm driving the BRZ at a Porsche event.
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I commend you on your willingness to challenge your biases. If Donald Sterling can say he's not racist because he was trying to date a half-black girl, you can certainly say that you're not Porschist since you're driving a BRZ to a Porsche event.