I want to like this but the styling is just too busy for my taste.
HELL YES! Finally manual gearboxes and correct wheel drive have started to come back. It's only taken 35 or 40 years!There's very little information in the way of hard specs, but we'll get more of those soon enough when Subaru shows off its own version of this rear-wheel-drive sports car, which was jointly developed by the two automakers. What we do know is that the concept and future production cars will use a 2.0-liter four cylinder boxer engine mounted up front and driving the rear wheels through a manual gearbox.
HELL YES! Finally manual gearboxes and correct wheel drive have started to come back. It's only taken 35 or 40 years!
Please please please leave the alphabet soup of electronics on the other side of an 'on/off' switch I can superglue in the 'off' position. Pllleeeaasseeee!
In the US, it has to. Many drivers have never even seen let alone can drive a manual.But it will come with an automatic option right?
But it will come with an automatic option right?
I don't think Toyota has ever made a sports car for the public that didn't come with an automatic option. Whether its inferior to the manuals is another story, the last Celica GT-S for instance had an automatic but because it was a 4-speed for the high revving 2ZZ-GE engine it was actually slower than an automatic GT making the auto GT-S a bit of a laughing stock. To be honest there has been absolutely no word on the automatic, it seems all the questions asked about the car have ignored the idea of the automatic version.
the red line for the 2ZZ with the auto was just below 7000 rpm. and with only 4 gears, the gas mileage would of really sucked. it must of cruised well above 4000 rpm just doing the speed limit on a highway.I don't think Toyota has ever made a sports car for the public that didn't come with an automatic option. Whether its inferior to the manuals is another story, the last Celica GT-S for instance had an automatic but because it was a 4-speed for the high revving 2ZZ-GE engine it was actually slower than an automatic GT making the auto GT-S a bit of a laughing stock. To be honest there has been absolutely no word on the automatic, it seems all the questions asked about the car have ignored the idea of the automatic version.
Ah thanks for reminding me. Not having the 3rd gen MR2 available here I sometimes forget.The MR2 Spyder never had a proper slushbox manual; it had a clutchless manual in later years but even that didn't have an auto mode. Granted, it is now discontinued, so Toyota may be leery of offering a manual-only vehicle again.
The gas mileage...wasn't that awful but the consequence of using this engine with so few gears was it was really slow. The tip tronic was useless, yes you selected the gears but it took forever to require a change, so essentially buying an auto GT-S was stupid, if you wanted an automatic Celica the GT was frankly superior in speed, purchasing cost and running cost.the red line for the 2ZZ with the auto was just below 7000 rpm. and with only 4 gears, the gas mileage would of really sucked. it must of cruised well above 4000 rpm just doing the speed limit on a highway.
what i find funny is that the Corolla Xrs was never offer with an automatic. you would think Toyota would offer Corolla's performance model with an auto. it's a Corolla for God's sake.