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Originally Posted by Dragonitti
Man if I had a dollar for every time someone said something about the engine being shared with the Camry. Guess that makes it a Camry, Rav4, and Corolla XRS all at the same time because they share a 2az-FE. Oh but wait, it has the same braking system as the Celica GTS....guess that makes it a Celica too.
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lol good point on the brakes (although I'm not sure on their accuracy).
I only bring up the Camry thing because I'm upset that Toyota no longer develops an engine for straight performance to be used in a performance car (exclude Lexus). Yes the tC isn't advertised as a race car but it is advertised as a performance sports car.
What I'd like to see is an engine designed for straight up performance and put directly in a performance vehicle FIRST. After that I'm fine with it being used in other vehicles like the Camry.
My reasoning is that I get the impression from Toyota that performance is always a side effect of any engine they make. After they are like "oh hey we could probably come up with a sports car to put this same engine in!"
The FT-86 is no exception since the engine isn't even designed by Toyota...
But I regress, my point was that Toyota's effort into Scion is half assed. I'm fine with Scion pumping money into motorsports and whatnot, I'm just saying the initial effort of making the cars comes off to me as being "Frankenstein" cars with parts taken from their family cars.
To me, performance should be their flagship (whether Scion or not) and then parts taken from their performance vehicles into others.
But hey, I could just have no idea what I'm talking about. If that's the case though, then what I'm saying is based on the image I am getting from what it appears Toyota is portraying.