coupé "Toybaru" reporté à une date ultérieure

[Stéphane Dumas]

le projet de coupé RWD de Toyota et Subaru prévu pour 2011 a été reporté à une date ultérieure en raison du contexte économique actuel
http://www.leblogauto.com/2008/12/et-une-de-chute-le-coupe-toyobaru-reporte-sine-die.html

[Mitch]

Toyota/Subaru FR sports car code-named 086A, will include direct injection (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/18/toyota-subaru-fr-sports-car-code-named-086a-will-include-direct/)

by Damon Lavrinc (http://www.autoblog.com/bloggers/damon-lavrinc/) on Feb 18th, 2009 at 2:27PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/086a_toyota_subaru_580op.jpg (http://www.7tune.com/toyotasubaru-compact-sports-car-code-086a/)

Over the past few months, rumors have circulated that the joint venture between Toyota and Subaru to develop an affordable, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive coupe has been delayed. ToMoCo president, Akio Toyoda, sought to address those concerns at last month's Tokyo Auto Salon (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/TokyoAutoSalon/), and according to Toyota's new overlord, development is still underway.

Toyoda told the assembled masses that the new FR sports car is an essential part of the automaker's "rejuvenation" efforts to bring younger people into the fold, and a large part of that is price. The coupe is still expected to cost around 2,000,000 yen (a little over $21,000 US) and is set to go on sale in 2012. According to Toyoda, the production postponement has nothing to do with the delay in construction of the Toyota/Subaru factory, where the two-door was due to be built next year. Instead, Toyoda claims that the hold up is due to the adaption of Toyota's new D-4S direct injection system (http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/tech/environment/powertrain/engine/index.html) for the flat-four engine. Currently, the FR sports car is codenamed "086A," and for those of you schooled in the world of Hachirokus, that spells good things to come.

http://www.7tune.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/086a_toyota_compact_sports_car.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/086a_toyota_subaru_580op.jpg

[Stéphane Dumas]

le temps de dépoussiérer le sujet pour mentionner que le projet est remis au congélateur
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/26/dead-again-toyota-subaru-rwd-cars-reportedly-put-on-indefinite/ (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/26/dead-again-toyota-subaru-rwd-cars-reportedly-put-on-indefinite/)

[Dave]

Le contexte est vraiment fuck all en ce moment... C'est le temps de consolider ce qui marche et de pas niaiser avec les risques...

Et tant qu'à moi, qu'ils se concentrent sur la nouvelle Legacy et la prochaine Camry et qu'ils réinventent une meilleure corolla aussi... ça sera ça de gagner...

Toyota a pas mal de modèle à renouveller là... Sienna et Rav4 en tête... qu'ils niaisent pas et qu'ils apportent des améliorations...