Oneday and Ryun84:
Because I hate the brand and think it is a fucking retarded waste of Toyota's resources I will ridicule people who bought the fucking cars and gave Toyota the meagre financial justification to continue with this failed experiment. This is the internet, grow some thicker skin you pansies...
As for informing me of Toyota and FHI's joint business relations to shock and amaze me? Fuck off and read some of my earlier posts. I know what I'm talking about, this isn't news, or even correct (20ish% does not make a majority...).
Here's what Scion's innocent little marketing-driven brand will do to the FT/R-86/S if it gets a hold of it. It will turn it into a terrible handling car.
Why? You see Scion has been selling slow, front-wheel drive cars aimed at impressionable youth. Not news. It also has a ridiculous 'racing' program in which Scion-looking cars compete in drift, drag and time-attack events and now videos such as Tanner Foust's street drift. Also not news. It has a huge percentage of douchey fanboys that rivals the post-Fast and Furious Honda scene.
The FT/R-86/S will have an incredibly able chassis if tuned to take advantage of it. This comes from moving the short boxer engine behind the front axle and as rear-ward as possible, centralizing mass. This creates what is known as a low polar moment of inertia. What this does for us is allow the car to be potentially very responsive to steering input and turn in very quickly. And in case anyone forgot it is RWD.
By now maybe some of the more insightful readers (and maybe SW20 drivers) will see where I'm going with this...
Toyota has also had a lot of bad press recently regarding the throttle situation, which is being shown recently to have a lot more to do with driver error than previous media has reported.
Now let's put this all together...
Toyota's worst-case scenario with a Scion FR-S:
Young douchey Scion fanboys wanting to imitate Tanner Foust's driving, trade in their heavier, doughy, less powerful, FWD tCs. They now have a RWD, lighter, more powerful, drift-capable machine. Scenes of carnage follow. So to prevent this Toyota will have lawyers and PR people telling them to dial in a fuck-ton of understeer if it comes out as a Scion. (Memories of the MR2?)
I can go on for pages hating on Scion...
And believe it or not the only time I am usually this blatantly uncivil is when the lovely topic of Scion pops up.
Peace!
