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Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1
1000 units / year would significantly compromise the aftermarket for these cars. With such an emphasis of this car being a blank canvas, I really don't think they will limit it that much.
From one side, it's cool.. it will never be a civic for example... but at the same time, it would kill everything that the car is made for, and limit the audience that it was made for as well. It will also never pay for itself.
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I completly agree with that and hope they are going to make them to demand, but I'm not Toyota(Toyoda) so its not up to me. In my view it looks to me that Toyota view this car as a marketing/publicity project in order to show that Toyota's DO have some emotion and soul.
As much as I would love them to start building cars like the SW20 Turbo, ST165/185/205's and JZA80 twin turbo. Unfortunatly I can't see them doing it. They are there for the mass market and to make profit, and with current legislation all over the world really pushing economy over everything else there's (relatively) just not much of a market for sports cars.
If they are only selling at break even point, then WHY make more than 1000? They are a car company there to make a profit, this improves their image and will get people through the doors of their salesrooms and sell some of their other cars.
To those tho think they'll get a discount by playing dealers off against each other, or by haggling, GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ARSE! It will not happen on a limited production car that is being sold a break even point.
The really laughable thing is, most the people on the internet talking about this car, either bigging it up, or slating it will never buy on, and most certainly will not have the driving ability to be able to drive it properly!