Carmax is a surprisingly good place to find one, although they are normally priced through the roof.
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Highly Modded + For Sale on Craigslist = I've ruined my car so bad even Carmax won't touch it.
I thought the FJ concept and production version both looked more silly than wild or unreproducible, part of the wave of Fake Retro of that era. Especially when like you mention the fantastic Lancruiser and the beloved 4Runner 3rd gen (bias note- I love these so much I have bought a 5 speed version and am slowly…
I hope its awesome.
You could argue that 77% taking the slush box makes the manual version even more bonkers to produce. CTS-V Wagon with the manual, makes little business sense but total Jalop sense. I have the wants.
One additional point, this equally could be titled "FT-1 Concept makes us want an original unmolested low miles last-gen Supra, rather than whatever the actual product version of this will actually be in three years."
View Lexus' line-up. Yeah, they're insistent (and this will cost too much to be a Toyota most likely).
Cadillac CTS-V Wagon with the manual transmission. The business case for this is terrible (as was its take rate). A very expensive, gas guzzling, wagon with not that great storage or hauling, from a brand primarily known (at the time) for selling pimped out full size SUVs.
FJ Cruiser was just a box, and as a concept was pretty mild. The wild stuff like the FT-1 (and the WRX Concept) are just expensive marketing pieces. Its very rare, that the wilder concepts are taken to production. In fact, the best argument is the BMW i8 which went from wild concept to equally wild production car. …
The FR-S is a bog-standard coupe, with a rather mild "concept" version. The LFA is/was a one-off passion project that lost tons of cash as a Lexus re-brand, not a viable product. Additionally, Toyota took so long to make it that it had been basically overtaken by tech developments, especially from Porsche, Ferrari…
China just fined Audi $40 million for breaking anti-monopoly laws, and they're cracking down on pricing of General Motors vehicles. Tensions are now running extremely high between the Chinese government and foreign automakers. From Bloomberg:
Yay, everything is awesome!
Don't be gullible, Toyota isn't going to make a car that looks ANYTHING like this. And even if they wanted to it (a) probably won't meet any current crash standards (especially the Euro pedestrian stuff) (b) doesn't match the new Lexus design language that Lexus is VERY insistent upon (c) that interior is never, ever…
Uber has been accused of this before with another taxi-based app in New York. But the company responded by implying "the people identified by Lyft could have been average passengers looking to make money, as opposed to professional Uber recruiters."
Mmm, astroturf
Grumpy and under-caffeinated on Detroit Auto Show coffee, I once said the Acura TLX was evidence the brand was slowly committing suicide. I stand by the fact that it's a lazy design and not the bold product statement they desperately need, but Acura sees the car as the key to their revival.
Part of the problem is Koenigsegg is the Saab of supercar makers. For all Saab's brilliance the business fundamentals and poor market demand among the sort of people who had the money for new Saabs (which were always pricey) eventually doomed them.
1. I would add- its a very fancy VW. So you are buying the Passat of Supercars.
Right now, it's not clear if the probes are part of the same anti-trust investigations that have resulted in sanctions for Audi and Chrysler. If they are, expect big problems for Toyota as well.