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Well, even if the guy is wrong the writing is o the wall. As good as the car is it failed to gather any attention outside of a handful of fans. Its not quite a Subaru, because its their only RWD and it is surpassed by the heavy, but perhaps more practical for the masses WRX, and it's not really a Toyota because it was a SCION first.
There is a massive amount of support that comes along with offering a car in the US market. It might be different if they could just put them on a boat and ship them over here and sell a few to the cool people in-the-know, but that does not work. We even go as far as bemoaning the dealers who do not know anything about the car.
Toyota dealers knowing little about this car are the ones hurting the sales volume? I would guess that a big Toyota dealer sells more Corollas in a week than they do a 86 in a year. Has nothing to do with the quality of the car, it was designed to be an affordable, lightweight RWD coupe. It was actually right on target, but it is priced a little too steep. I bet we'd see less Corolla S on the road if the 86 was 15-20% lower priced.
They killed the FJ Cruiser while it was wildly more popular than the FRS/86. I would be shocked if there is an updated one or if this one makes it past model year 2019.
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