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Originally Posted by AIRMAX

hmmm

Look, if the email from this Product Engineer from Toyota Japan is legit..

He's pretty much RISKED his job.




And its very un-japanese like for him to talk about a car that is not yet in production stages. Again this is confidential matters.

Knowing a bit about Automotive engineering...
- Design Engineers work on the car's parts design
- Design Chassis Engineers would be more involved with the suspension tuning during tests runs.
- Evaluation Engineers would be the ones collecting tests data and run data from the Nurbugring runs.
- A representative from the Product Development Department, the people who researched the market and proposed the vehicle to start with, would be present.
- Chief Engineer, person who commands/captains all aspects of the vehicle design/development would want to make an appearance also as its "his" legacy vehicle, to put it shortly.


And unless the email came out from a private email address, any information would be filtered by the email security system, and hearing a bit on Toyota, it would be almost suicidal to email a "consumer" about products in development through the work email system... knowing the risks of the NET.

Again, it could be "him" feeding the HYPE on the net to assists Marketing's job... but I have doubts.

It's marketing buzz. Isn't it weird to test the car on a stuck freeway in SoCal? They just need to gain more attention after many year absent in making real affordable sport car.