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Originally Posted by oneday
Doesn't get any realer than RWD V8 Camry. Does it?
For that matter you can't buy a STI like Pastrana drives or a Fiesta like Block or a Ferrari like Alonso, a Mazda like Dempsy, a Hyundai like Rhys, a Chevy like O'Connell or an Audi like Ekström.
Looks like you will be walking (or driving a Porsche). |
NASCAR... A spec series, they're not allowed to have anything different. Not something that I'm happy about either but I'll spare more unpleasantries...
The STI, Ferrari and Hyundai at least have the freakin' powertrain layout that you can buy off the showroom. Dempsy, O'Connell or Ekstrom I don't know who they are or what they drive off the top of my head, but I'll take a gamble and say that they too also share the fundamentals of the stock versions of their cars. The Scion drift car doesn't.
As for everything else I skimmed through, I'm not going to point-by-point it. I'll give you a more polite version.
Scion has clung to the Fast and Furious left-over scene. A lot of these buyers are image above substance. All talk no walk.
They're promoting 2JZ powered Scion drag cars and NASCAR V8 drift cars. This is marketing. Yet the 'performance-oriented' Scion buyer can only purchase 4 cylinder FWD 'cool' econo-boxes.
The Scion buyers that are influenced by this marketing strategy don't have the common sense to see through this and by a used Supra (or SC400 if they want the V8). They are sheep.
It is a waste of money that Toyota can be putting into solid, engineering development.
Toyota has more reason than most to be gun-shy about lawsuits.
They will dumb-down a car based on their perceived market and response to accidents, etc... (See bolded section.)
This already happened once with the SW20 MR-2.
This means I will have to spend more money and time screwing around with custom control arms, alignment, anti-roll bars, spring and shock settings, right out of the box. Instead of having a sharp car that I can enjoy a while before slowly going with the preceding mods.
Toyota needs to shake up its North American management bad.