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Toyota goes sporty at Tokyo show
Toyota goes sporty at Tokyo show
Posted Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009, 11:45 am in Employee News
Toyota will unveil vision for a sport coupe being jointly developed with Subaru at the Tokyo Motor Show this month, the Automotive News reported.
The Toyota-badged car, dubbed the FT-86 Concept, is the spiritual successor to the AE86 sport coupe of the 1980s, which was based on the Corolla, the trade paper said. Like its boxy predecessor, the FT-86 Concept is compact and lightweight and has a low center of gravity, the Automotive News said.
But the styling is modernized with a rounded, sleek silhouette, the paper said. While it is fitted with a 2.0-liter boxer engine from Subaru, the overall design was created by Toyota’s ED2 styling studio in France, the story said.
Toyota and Fuji Heavy plan to start producing a sporty car in late 2011, according to the paper. Toyota will be responsible for most of the engineering while Fuji Heavy Industries will supply the horizontally opposed engine and manufacture the car at a Subaru plant, the story said. (Automotive News)
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