Report: Official confirms second gen FR-S

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by Shutter

There are things that this article point out that really help to verify that they are true because you can see that they say things that are said. I mean, its great to have "random quote" or citing a source that "said some other stuff too". It really is quite political of them to say so much and say nothing at all. Isn't it amazing?

Thats what that article was. Saying a bunch of stuff and saying nothing at all.


You walk away thinking, "WTF. This article LITERALLY said nothing."

If you work in the corporate world at a public company, you have to "say nothing".

If you don't, you risk endangering company stock pricing, corporate relationships, etc.

-alex

[fatalelement]

Originally Posted by mav1178

If you work in the corporate world at a public company, you have to "say nothing".

If you don't, you risk endangering company stock pricing, corporate relationships, etc.

-alex

That's what anonymous sources always are. People who work there but don't want to get in trouble. If news of a product would damage my company's stock, I'd probably look at a new employer.

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[mav1178]

Originally Posted by fatalelement

That's what anonymous sources always are. People who work there but don't want to get in trouble. If news of a product would damage my company's stock, I'd probably look at a new employer.

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You obviously didn't read the article in great detail:

"We are pretty serious about keeping the GT 86 pure and keeping a car like that in our line-up. Because in the past we dropped cars like the Celicas and fun cars, and we don’t want to lose that again," Toyota of Europe executive vice president Karl Schlicht told Motoring. "We want to keep some fun cars in our lineup."

The news comes just months after Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, president of Subaru parent Fuji Heavy Industries, told Automotive News he would "pass out" if the FR-S and BRZ twins were discontinued. "It's not going to be just one generation," he said of the Subaru BRZ in July. With both Toyota and Subaru on board with launching a second version of the sports coupe, it sounds like a continuation of the car is a done deal.

The point here is, both these executives are putting out vague, forward-looking optimistic statements that are just fodder for media to speculate on.

-alex

[CBR600RR]

interesting

[fatalelement]

Originally Posted by mav1178

You obviously didn't read the article in great detail:



The point here is, both these executives are putting out vague, forward-looking optimistic statements that are just fodder for media to speculate on.

-alex

To clarify, if there was concrete news, someone would have spilled the beans. They are saying nice things that they think but honestly don't have a lot of control over and aren't binding. It's important to remember that this forum is a hugely small and useless market share for Toyota. If they said "this platform wasn't profitable, we're going to drive them all off a bridge", their stock price would go up.

Shit, their stock price went up today when they recalled faulty brake cylinders, which is a potentially fatal safety issue. I highly doubt this is calculated fodder, I think it's just the executives saying things that they feel like saying.

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[murdoc]

I heard from a friend of a friend (who is a service manager at a lexus dealership so this is legit) that they had found a way to reproduce the rotary carbon fiber loom used to build the LF-A for way cheaper, and that the next gen FR-S would be made entirely from carbon fiber.

Also it would be powered by a NA 2.5l Valvematic I6 with a 9k RPM redline.

[Shark_Bait88]

Originally Posted by fatalelement

Just spoke to enzo ferarri, it'll be a Toyota Subaru Ferrari collaboration.

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Only available in Firestorm... not the color, but a literal firestorm.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Shutter

You walk away thinking, "WTF. This article LITERALLY said nothing."

Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait"]Clickbait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by mav1178

You obviously didn't read the article in great detail:



The point here is, both these executives are putting out vague, forward-looking optimistic statements that are just fodder for media to speculate on.

-alex

If they said these quotes AT ALL! Not that the media ever paraphrases, quotes out of context or just plain makes shit up!
I have a hard time believing that the European EVP gave ANY interview to Motoring magazine for them to quote! If he did they would have a lot more than one sentence to write about!

[djmm]

I don't care about second gen. Not that I'm gonna buy it anyway. Pretty happy with my trusty 86 at the moment.

[continuecrushing]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

Clickbait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

no kidding. When these "threads" pop up I don't even bother clicking...knowing there will be zero relevant info.

The first 2 months or 50 posts that new forum members make should only be allowed in a "Spam/Stupid Questions/Do you have a link to stupid information that you think is true and needs to be posted?. part of the forum.

Although, if we did that the only remaining/existing part of the forum would be people bitching about crickets.

Can't win.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Shutter

no kidding. When these "threads" pop up I don't even bother clicking...knowing there will be zero relevant info.

The first 2 months or 50 posts that new forum members make should only be allowed in a "Spam/Stupid Questions/Do you have a link to stupid information that you think is true and needs to be posted?. part of the forum.

Although, if we did that the only remaining/existing part of the forum would be people bitching about crickets.

Can't win.

Who would we have to make fun of then?????
We would soon turn on each other and as interesting as that may end up being the bloodshed would be horrid!

[continuecrushing]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Who would we have to make fun of then?????
We would soon turn on each other and as interesting as that may end up being the bloodshed would be horrid!

haha, true. Better to focus our anger toward them instead.


Anyone else have "news" to share?

[fatalelement]

Originally Posted by Shutter

haha, true. Better to focus our anger toward them instead.


Anyone else have "news" to share?

The second gen is just refurbished AE86s

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