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Old 07-25-2015, 12:51 PM   #934
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Eloquent. Maybe you could say what other cars wearing a Toyota badge and designed by Calty float your boat?

Besides FR-S, the only previous Toyota or Scion that I'd call beautiful and timeless was this:



Nope, as I said, FT-1 has already aged. Look at the new designs from Ferrari and McLaren to see progress. Neither of them had to resort to silly tricks like hydraulic spoilers to generate massive downforce plus they had to package larger power trains behind the seats.

Calty seems have copied the ugliest aspects of a Porsche GT3 and then designed something out of the last decade when passenger car aero was thought to be a result of wings, less so from more effective splitters, trays and diffusers.

They already showed FT-1 v. 2.0 and changed the theme from sport to luxury with paint and interior changes. They didn't do that on a whim, it's a result of focus group polling.

Each to their own, but I see FT-1 about as long lasting but not as interesting as this look:

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