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Originally Posted by tranzformer
This makes no sense at all. The new FT-86 is suppose to be the new Hachi-Roku. The new incarnation if you so will for the 21st century. If you wanted Toyota purity in the equipment sense you would expect a car based on 80s technology, same as the original. This new incarnation is still true to the Toyota purity. That purity is not in the physical sense per-say. But in the thought process behind the design and creation of the car. Toyota is building this car to be reasonable priced, nimble, well handling, balanced, fun to drive...etc. However they are not putting themselves in a box inregards to how they can or can not accomplish that. Luckily Toyota saw that FHI had something that could very well make the new FT-86 that much better. I'm not sure why you write off the boxer engine. It has many benefits over any of the 4 cylinder engines Toyota would have put in themselves. The combination of Toyota, FHI and Yamaha is a great combination of great minds combining their strengths to create something different.
Toyota's purity is in the design and thought process behind the car. Not what engine it came with. Luckily they are willing to think outside the box to create something great.
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Sorry, I don't buy that. Half Purity? Really?
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Originally Posted by tranzformer
If it is NA (as it probably will be) I want it to be high compression. Give me that 14:1 please.
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I'll pass. I don't like Honda's for that reason (all high rev no torque). I'll take a bump down on the rev band in exchange for a larger bump in torque. But this isn't the engine thread and there is one for that, so I'll digress from the subject.
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Originally Posted by cyde01
manufacturers paying shops lots of money to make a rwd version of an FF for drift competition is faking the funk.  |
I only crack up laughing when people use two out of the 10 or so examples of Scion motorsports, to formulate their opinion. tC is an AWD chassis chief, thus legal for FD. That is a fact. People don't seem to like to many facts around here, rather just a collective pool of opinions that are largely unfounded.