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We feel like we’ve been talking about the imminent return of the
for a million years. Longer. The long trickle of information, including a drive of
the prototype in Spain back in September
, has not gone over very well according to you – enthusiast readers who’ve left us a bunch of feedback on the long wait and the dearth of specs. And it hasn’t been positive.
It doesn’t help things any that the car was co-developed with
, using a BMW engine, transmission, and a myriad of other bits. Even so,
swears they’re developing the car using this hardware without talking to BMW engineers during development. While it’s the spiritual successor to the last
sold here, it doesn’t descend from it in any respect.
Even so, it looks sharp, aggressive, and modern – despite the crazy camouflage. At the 2019
in January, we’ll finally see it without the camo. And we’ll get real specs and details, not simply a bunch of educated conjecture. And hopefully Toyota will have finalized some of the tuning and chassis calibration, since on our prototype drive we weren’t convinced it had the gumption to take on top competition from
– and it was far too quiet for our taste. We also had reservations about the steering and brakes.
It’s not all bad news. Our early prototype drive was of an unfinished car, it had plenty of torque, and it loves being fed throttle in a turn. Most of the other issues might be fixed in calibration. We’ll know more about that when we drive a production model. Until then, we’ll be eagerly awaiting its production debut in Detroit.
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