Official Thread [Official] Toyota FT-1 Concept

[JHF]

2019 Toyota Supra @ Top Speed

 

[Human]

Beautiful! Toyota use to make such iconic sports cars, Lexus brand got the LFA, now it's the Toyota 1/2's turn. Bring it on!!!

 

[Giannis]

If it looks anywhere near this, it will be brilliant!

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

I am of the opinion that they should make this.

 

[Soup]

 

[Soup]

 

[Soup]

 

[Bucketslash11]

nearly finished sketch/late concept design

final sketch

love the wing, judging from angle and shape it produces downforce

 

[Rainer271]

Toyota FT-1 Concept Shows Up at Cars and Coffee Irvine

Petrolhead or 'greenhead', living in California is part of every car enthusiasts dream, as the state is home to a vast car culture, both modern and old school. And as a bonus, you can spend each Saturday morning at the Cars and Coffee meeting in Irvine, an event that reunites awesome rides, their owners and everyone else interested in congregating to kick tires and have a cup of joe.

From time to time, you might also get to see something special pulling in the parking lot on Gateway Boulevard. For example, if you didn’t had time to join last week’s meeting, you missed Toyota showing off its FT-1 conceptcar there.

Pretty unusual for an automaker to take its one-off concept and randomly appear at a cars and coffee meeting, but Toyota did it. The FT-1 arrived in a truck, from which it gently got unloaded on the pavement.

The concept car then rolled a bit through the parking lot, dropping jaws and being followed by a small legion of photographers. Funny enough, a guy came near it at one point and told the driver he’ll trade his car for it.

Well, good luck with that sir, because even if a miracle happens and you get it, it’s pretty much a useless shellmade just to preview a future car. The windows appear not to be working, the door shuts with a very unpleasant sound and we also believe the car has no engine.

There’s a lot of background noise from the other cars in the video, but even so, if you put on a set of good headphones, you’ll find the FT-1 is silent as a fish. With those looks, we imagined Toyota placed at least a crappy 2.5-liter four-pot with no mufflers just to impress people.

Well, no. Although the FT-1 has that see-through hood, what you see there is just a plastic molding. The car seems to be motivated by an electric motor if you ask us.

Anyway, what really matters is how the production version will be like, as the FT-1 is believed to inspire the next generation Toyota Supra.

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[ThroughandThrough]

Upcoming Toyota sports car could cost more than the Corvette

On the heels of confirmation that the long-gestating BMW/Toyota joint sports-car project is still, well, gestating, we now have an idea of where the Toyota version will play in the sports-car segment.

According to information we’ve received from an inside source, the mid-size sports car—which Toyota is said to be discussing in terms of the FT-1 concept pictured above—is likely to cost more than a base Chevrolet Corvette, which currently starts at $54,995. If Toyota plans to play in the Corvette’s league, one should expect output in excess of 400 horsepower, likely from a turbocharged and/or possibly hybridized V-6. Rear-wheel drive is a given, but the car’s name—FT-1 or Supra or something else—remains to be seen.

And then there’s this interesting question: if the Toyota ends up costing more than a Vette, how much might the BMW version cost? If the Bimmer commands a premium, it may be too pricey to be a direct replacement for the Z4, as has been rumored. If the two cars are priced commensurately, they’ll need to be suitably differentiated for the existence of both to make sense, such as offering the Toyota only as a coupe and the BMW only as a convertible. And then there’s the tantalizing possibility that the BMW may wind up being both more expensive and more powerful—and maybe lean heavily on that brand’s newfound carbon-fiber expertise—which means we’d have a Jaguar F-Type and Porsche 911 fighter on our hands.