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Originally Posted by Justin.b
The MRS was a single generation run lasting only a few years, same for the last Celica.
I'm not talking about performance necessarily - mainly sales.
And on the sales and performance front, the LFA is fail. Toyota takes so damn long to make a new car that the supercar bar moved twice while they were weaving their carbon fiber. They built the LFA to kick the F430s ass. Unfortunately by the time it came out it was sniffing the tailpipes of the 458 for almost double the price.
I'm not denying that Toyota HAS made some sports cars through the years, I'm just saying that their last successful sport cars were designed over 20 years ago.
-Justin
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I'm gunna disagree on performance, the LFA with nurburgring package (a rollcage and stiffer dampers, slight aero enhancements + RE070 street tires) happens to be faster on the the 'Ring than the 458 by about 16 seconds. the base car on S001 UHP tires is 5 seconds slower. considering the Italia was tested with optional P-zero corsa (Basically a street legal R-compound) tires i think on normal tires it would be way closer. it also with the "nur package" it passed the Z06 vette and ACR viper ('09) (not ACR '10 or ZR1 mind you) you can't really say its a fail performance wise. it is mighty expensive though
and the Italia is gorgeous not gunna lie.
however historically the 86/FRS/BRZ equivalent would be the 85-87 corolla GTS