Subaru/Toyota sports car delayed until 2012

According to Japan’s Nikkei newspaper, the upcoming Subaru/Toyota rear-wheel-drive sports car has been delayed to 2012. Nikkei did not say where it got the information but said that production was to start at the end of 2011 and that Toyota has decided to postpone it until 2012.

“We’re discussing with Fuji Heavy the timing for the start of production and other details,” Hideaki Homma, a Toyota spokesman, said when contacted by Bloomberg. He declined to give further details on the talks.

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B7FAN - 12/22/2008 4:51:26 PM

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thats going to be a killer thats the new SUB-PRA

ChuckG20 - 12/22/2008 5:06:47 PM

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Wow, that is pretty good looking. It's almost remarkable as the 1990 Q45 saloon.

Hubert_Wang - 12/22/2008 8:31:48 PM

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haha chuck are you a joke ? tryin to make fun of g37.

i was thinking the vq engine must be in this car cause the vq has the proper torque and acceleration speed that only a vq powered car can achieve. vq all the way yadadadad. chuck37 where you at?

TehShibbs - 12/23/2008 6:14:33 PM

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Greatest troll evar.

theoptimisticpessimist - 12/22/2008 5:42:37 PM

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Jan 2009 Toyota kills LF-A
Mar 2009 Toyota kills Suboyota "sports car"
Oct 2009 Toyota bails on "F" car line

F1_Driver - 12/22/2008 7:40:24 PM

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Does anyone care about Toyota's "sports car" anymore?

Hubert_Wang - 12/22/2008 8:33:09 PM

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hope their not gettin too ahead of themselves here. toyota cant even finish working on an lf-a for lexus and they want to think about a sub-toyo sports car.

itd be cool to see a new supra out but is it realistic? no.

kpaxx - 12/23/2008 10:12:31 AM

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Looks like someone photoshoped a Alfa Competizione 8C

TehShibbs - 12/23/2008 6:19:33 PM

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...And Chrysler had their shot with the Shelby Charger back in 1986. Did that stop them from building the Viper?

polyester1970 - 12/25/2008 1:50:16 AM

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I thought Toyota is focusing on the Lexus IS as their sports car.

200hp doesn't seem like a sports car to me.

XYZZ - 12/26/2008 5:46:36 AM

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a COROLLA ENGINED lotus elise whupped nearly all competing supercars on the short track in an R&T comparo.

it only had 190 hp.

XYZZ - 12/26/2008 5:53:26 AM

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toyota ought to dust off the old plans for the AE-86, FORGET awd for now, and just pump out a simple, lightweight, stylish coupe.

they had offered a 180 hp engine in corollas and matrixes for years. but without a coupe body, most people prob'ly just weren't paying attention. slow sales led to it beibng dropped.

a flashy looking 2-dr is almost as important as hp.
(that's how the miata succeeded.)