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Old 03-01-2011, 06:57 PM   #329
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Originally Posted by r4m3n View Post
For those of you who are going OMG WTF is this overstyled crap....dude, CALM THE F DOWN. It's a CONCEPT. Chances are the final production version will be watered way the hell down...
I made one of those "unhappy" comments. You see, it is that they had nailed it the first time, and then they made it look gaudy. It is just the opinion of me and some others to go back to the original design. It would be like if you were dating a beautiful woman, say Eva Longoria and then fake-baked, fake-nailed, and tramp'd her up in clothes until you had Snooki... We'd tell you to go back to the original one.

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The FT has really proven that Toyota can actually design a good looking car. The last 10 years have been disastrous so to see something this radical out of the FT-86 II is a real surprise for me.
Toyota hasn't proven they can sell anything desireable since the late 90's. As you said, it is a concept. Ninety-nine percent of the time what you see in concept form is NOT what you get in production form. However, the purpose of a concept is to test the waters and see the response to different directions. My guess is this is likely going to be the shape of the car they'll produce, minus the carbon crap, under tray and aero...
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