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10 pages about an Official badge swap... A couple comments caught my eye.
The $20k goal was in a magazine from 2007. Even 8 or 10 years ago doesn't inflate the value enough to cover the difference. Toyota/Subaru never hit the price or weight targets from the rumormill. I don't remember what their internal targets were but they were close if I remember right. There are several decent cars from hothatches to american muscle in the sub $30k market today. Only one is a "traditional sports car" and that is the MX-5. The designations are just marketing terms that were made up to sell cars. I never placed any more or less value between Scion and Toyota badges. Even the Subaru badge doesn't mean much to me. I don't place a lot of emotional value on corporate badges.
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02-04-2016, 07:19 AM
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02-04-2016, 08:02 AM
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As an outsider who doesn't live in the Americas I never quite understood why on earth Toyota re-branded some of their own cars which to many in the world are perceived as class leading, highly reliable & bombproof. Almost everyone on this forum knows that the FRS is really an 86/BRZ designed, engineered & built by Toyota/Subaru !
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02-04-2016, 08:18 AM
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Apparently they choose to name the Scion FR-S: The Toyota FR-S. Missed opportunity if you asked me:
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/2016...e-toyota-fr-s/
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 There are so many 'panic' threads here that I didn't get the chance to read them all. Thanks!
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If anyone payed attention, they were going to test the GT86 moniker here and see how it worked. No guarantee, but they are looking into this.
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So when they are released from Toyota will people be switching the Toyota badges for Scion badges lol
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If they follow through with naming it the Toyota FRS, we are still going to have people switching emblems. Now it'll just be swapping the FRS for a GT86 badge!
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WE HAVE AN ANTIQUE CAR NOW
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