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Originally Posted by matadormi5
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.
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I know what you mean man, but there are demands. For a sport car priced under 30K, today market will accept it. I'm not just saying because I like the car, but from my understanding, sportcar will bring people to the showroom.