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Originally Posted by Dragonitti
The PTuning tC has never seen $1 from Scion Corporate. Rado's World Racing tC is factory back, but that does not negate the potential of the car itself. I don't believe you can toss money at anything and make it into a Championship winning vehicle...sorry that's not the real world. They are Time Attack cars, not drift.
When the FT-86 gets badged as a Scion you can drift all day then.....LOL.
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So being the only factory-backed Open FWD class car should be a challenge? Give me a break. The reason they are doing so well is that only Toyota and Chevy seemed to care enough about
FWD time-attack to spend stupid amounts of factory-sponsorship money on it.
Name a 'factory-backed' AWD or RWD team that is getting even 10% of the money that Scion is throwing around.
As for the pics of the other car and the grandiose statement that, no it doesn't have a motor swap, well you should read a bit more of your own pic's specs... Very good, its using a fully-built 2AZFE. Fully built stock-based motors making ridiculous hp is nothing new (BMW F1 engines in the 80s made over 1000hp/L that's
1500 hp using blocks that came from road cars, used ones for the seasoning of the metal but they had some money spent on them too).
But did you miss the fact that it's a completely custom chassis and carbon-fiber body? Oops.
There is nothing off the showroom floor of a tC that says 'this will make a great race car'. You need to throw ass-loads of dollars at them.
The point that I've been repeatedly trying to make is that Toyota North America/Scion doesn't give two shits about producing a real performance car. They rely on these fantasy Scions, NASCAR Camrys and marketing campaigns.
This wasn't the case in the olden days of Toyota sports cars like the MR2, All-Trac/GT4 Celica, and Supra Turbos.
Scion and Toyota North America's marketing departments can lick my balls. Then they can step aside and let the engineers back in charge of performance.