Hello people. The Trip was AWESOME, and so here are some pics, everyone I met was great, a lot of cool, car loving people.
Here is the schedule.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
6pm - 10pm: Scion Welcome Reception (Located Poolside, Hyatt Long Beach)
(Free alcohol, time to meet all the other 86ers! around 60 came)
Friday, April 6, 2012
9am - 3pm: Scion HQ Activities, please meet in lobby promptly at 9am.
(Met Jack, tour Scion and Toyota HQ, then headed over to Museum to drive FR-S)
3pm - 6pm: Free time
6pm - 7pm: Scion ****tail Hour (Beacon Rotunda, Hyatt Long Beach)
7pm - 10pm: Scion FR-S First 86 Dinner with Special Guests (Beacon Ballroom, Hyatt Long Beach)
Saturday, April 7, 2012
11am - 5pm: Formula Drift VIP Event, please meet in lobby promptly at 11am.
The Hyatt, nice hotel.
Welcome reception, they had cool light projectors
our wristbands and VIP lounge pass for Formula Drift
Friday morning, getting on the buses
Arrival at Scion HQ
They pulled a LFA around quick and revved it. awesome.
Me and Jack!
At the museum, 4 FR-S's to drive, two autos and two manuals, everyone got to drive. A short course around the block, we had some fun, also there were some iQ's we drove, some iQ drag racing ensued
from what i saw, everyone had smiles on their faces after driving the FR-S.
inside the museum
Headed over to the FormulaD qualifiers at about 4 pm
Maclaren just hanging out
Martin with the ladies
Scion FR-S booth
I found a lady too :happy0180:
Fredric Aasbos tC
Scion FR-S Roadster. Looks like Speed Racer, we liked the black Scion badges
Russ found some ladies :respect:
Gran Turismo 5, contest to see who could get best lap time, top 3 times got free copy of the game. Steering was super difficult
Friday night dinner with Jack and various important people
Me with Scion drivers Ken Gushi, Fredric Aasbo, and Tony Angelo, some cool dudes.
LOTS of SWAG.
Scion VIP lounge at FormulaD
Roadster lined up with other Scions
The Gush!
Working on the car during the break.
double calipers on the rear rotors
Me and Gushi
hes a cool guy
Fredrick Aasbo
86ers swapping pics/videos Saturday night
AWESOME event, Scion was great, and talking with Jack Hollis and the other 86ers was fantastic.
Everyone loved driving the FR-S, everyone who drove it was impressed with the smooth automatic, the interior is nice, steering wheel is comfortable, quick acceleration, had a few people try drifts, but they forgot to turn of traction control :broken heart: i have yet to talk to someone who didn't love driving the car, we all want to drive it more. thats what the FR-S does..leaves you wanting more.