Rumorpile: Toyota's CEO Wants Two To Tango With The Scion FR-S

The Supra was a no brainer.

Cool I hope for the appearance of copycats, even though I believe everyone is working on something similar.

While this is cool news, my gut tells me we will see a glut of small 2 door sports cars in the near future 12-18 months.

Seems to be a cycle of multiple auto companies identifying the same niche for small 2 seater sports cars and then an over building happens since there is limited appeal for them and then they all die off and we go through the vacuum again.

Will be interesting non the less.

What will be really interesting might be a Toyota Vitz (Yaris) hatchback in GT-S trim. Power can come from a 2ZR-FZE engine. Basically the Corolla's 1.8L Inline-4 but fortified with an Eaton TVS R900 supercharger. Should be good for about 180~220 hp depending on how much boost they want to run. But more importantly it'll continue the same philosophy as the FT86. A light, agile car with adequate power and zero turbolag. Sorta like a rehash of the "original" VW Rabbit/Golf GTi.

Probably won't work too well in the USA, but it should be well received in Japan and in Europe -- where people actually like hatches

While this is cool news, my gut tells me we will see a glut of small 2 door sports cars in the near future 12-18 months.

Seems to be a cycle of multiple auto companies identifying the same niche for small 2 seater sports cars and then an over building happens since there is limited appeal for them and then they all die off and we go through the vacuum again.

Will be interesting non the less.

Nothing wrong w/ a glut of sports cars...better than more CUVs and boring 4cyl FWD sedans. It would be interesting if the smaller model were an MR-2 revival..

I don't think they could do rear engine again though