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Originally Posted by strat61caster
That guy is also a salesman, not a decision maker for Toyota corporate and he was not definitive either (and if it's the one I remember his knowledge is laughable, check out the FRS on Leno's car show on youtube, I hate the phrase but I cringed hard watching him flounder to promote his own product effectively). I spend an unhealthy amount on here too and I have yet to see confirmation, feel free to link all 3+ of your sources, I bet I read them too. I'm not saying it will be dead next year, to the contrary I think they'll be shipping them over for at least 2 more years and wouldn't be surprised if we're seeing FR-S arriving on our shores through 2018, a true second generation however is rumors at best.
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The guy doing the FR-S interview on Leno's Garage was Jack Hollis, VP and General Manager of Scion.
Now, you'd think someone with that title would know what they're talking about but like you, I was shocked at how ignorant Hollis was about his halo car. All I could imagine is that Hollis is hoping to be promoted out of Scion back to the fast-track Toyota side since that's the way Lentz made it to CEO after all.
In my ongoing experience talking with other senior Toyota and Scion execs on the marketing, sales, service, parts and dealer relations side, and I don't mean this necessarily disparagingly since they're almost all bean counters, future product knowledge doesn't seem to be as big an interest as current sales, profits and market share.