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Originally Posted by OldSkoolToys
Hahaha, that's Moto, creator/webmaster of club4ag! The same person the thread creator was quoting.
If that bit of info came from Moto then its no lie. He's basically the only person around the interwebs I would consider to actually have feasible contact with Toyota engineers on this project without actually working for Toyota or Subaru.
His bit of information is very good to hear!
"Nevertheless, he says, that he is trying his best to develop a car that we 'enthusiasts' will not be disappointed. And went as far as telling me that he shrugged off, pissed off, and told off, all of the marketing and sales people that pushed to have more things added to the car, or tried to include things unnecessary to the performance as his team saw fit for this car."
I liked that part the best, especially the bolded.  F off bean counters, we're trying to make an AUTO-MO-BILE here, not a kitchen appliance! |
actually the things that the car doesn't need (e.g. nav or leather, park assist etc...) is not being added by t.m.m. but t.m.s. which is a distributor not manufacturing. when a land cruiser goes to south africa they could care less about park assist. t.m.m. will ask the distributor what they want and build a vehicle specific for their region based on what the distributor thinks would sell.
don't place too much blame with manufacturing its the distributors that you need to get angry with. fyi: pwr seats and moonroofs won't make it into the fr-s. they were also tinkering not having any pwr win/lks at all and making everything manual but that was quickly shot down.