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Originally Posted by Dark
I think it's not because of Scion( doesn't make any sense at all). IIRC, admin of 4age forums went to Japan for a Toyota meeting. He asked all members in the forums and they liked to idea of using boxer to revise a long gone AE86( well what are you waiting for when Subaru has become a pet of Toyota?).
Another reason is, Mr Toyoda is an enthusiast. LF-A project was put to a stop, but was given a green light again just after Mr. Toyoda became a CEO. FT-86 was debuted just at the same time. right?
Last reason is, Scion is exclusively sold in NA, but FT-86 was debuted in Tokyo and designed by ED2 in Europe. There is no reason a car was made for Scion.
I'm not trying to be rude here, but you should use  . It's not that hard, right? |
No offense taken. I'm partially playing Devil's advocate to try and fathom reasons for Toyota to possibly put the 86 as a Scion in NA. Assuming that they aren't purposefully trying to piss off the enthusiast crowd.
My. Toyoda had to have persuaded a board of money crunchers and market analyst to why the FT-86 would work.The LF-A obviously wasn't going to make a profit--it's a super-car pet project. I don't think they would have allowed TWO pet-projects just because it isn't wise financially. In today's business, "because we like it" is rarely good enough for those business ppl.
I didn't mean that they wanted it to be a Scion from the start, but that the marketing Toyota did for Scion showed that ppl do want a RWD car (the 86). Here in NA anyway, there was the possibility for NA not to get the 86 at all. Thankfully they decided otherwise.