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Originally Posted by switchlanez
The MkII was officially announced to be 95% of what the production model will look like. At that point, Toyota likely R&D'd the aerodynamics out of the MkI and started to engineer the tooling to manufacture the sheetmetal. The 2000GT-esque C-pillar (probably the most challenging part to design for manufacturability due to size and complexity of bends) is a prime example of what will be retained because of that.
MkI and MkIII are one-off molds that likely never received aerodynamic analysis and, hence, will not see tooling for manufacturing. The remaining 5% is left for any design changes that wouldn't significantly impact the already established design for manufacturability.
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Partially true in theory but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some exterior refinements come the debut at the TAS. Case in point, that hoodline!
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Originally Posted by Sea1monkey2
I also think it looks better without the wing, and that red color, though gorgeous, is growing stale on me, time for a changeup (got bored... again)
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Dude, that pearl white looks sick!!
btw, that red was inspired from Japanese Macaque's ass!
“Sports
cars have to be red, but we wanted a new red,”¯ said Tetsuya Tada, the chief engineer. “So we came up with shoujyouhi red, the traditional red color of a Japanese monkey”s backside.”
We’re just left wondering what the color would be called when the FT-86 makes it into production? Have any suggestions? Let us know in the comments section. We’re going to start off with “Japanese monkey backside red.”