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Furthermore any basis on what weight this car is going to be is purely educated guessing, opinion, or a mixture of both. To use the yaris is a terrible example. The car has absolutely nothing in common with the FT. If you were to use a recent Toyota car to compare, it would have to be the last gen Celica, whose chassis was at least built for spirited driving.
The Celica weighed in at ~2500lbs with an overall length of 170.5 inches. Thats almost 7 inches longer than the FT-86 concept. Alright, so we're saving weight. Wrong, the FT-86 is RWD, which adds in extra weight for the drivetrain. The chassis also has to be a bit beefier because of the RWD setup. If accident regulations have changed in 4 years (to any amount significant to weight) then we have to factor that in as well.
Again its all just educated guessing. I'm throwing my last 2 cents in though on this topic. ~2600lbs (roughly 1160kg) Higher than 2750 and Toyota completely failed with this car.
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