This will be one sweet car if it's true! A 2.5 liter turbo boxer engine in a Toyota would be crazy...

http://jalopnik.com/377713/first-sketch-...reza-coupe

Carrier pidgeon huh? Well I can only hope. I've owned a celica and a Subaru STI. That STI's kind of power on a toyota platform would rock! I like the handling and feel of toyotas better, but the toyota version better have AWD! I'll be the first on the lot to get it

If it's Subaru guts, then it would HAVE to have AWD. But, if Toyota is making it, then I wonder if Subaru would allow them to make it AWD.

Clearly both automakers want a RWD car to jump into the drift craze and next phase of sport cars. Both automakers are working together for you that do not know are both partially owned by Toyota. With this being known, Toyota may and maynot add an AWD to its stable...

That's true, forgot about the drift craze. It's tough to own a RWD car anyplace where it snows though unless you have lots of $$$ for an extra. I guess we'll see what happens. Maybe they'll realize that the drift fans are mostly younger people and they'll introduce it in a lower price margin kind of like they did with scion.

If you read most car forums you will see that almost every car maker has or will have a RWD car in their line ups soon. It's a phase that will go away when the government forces their hands with the new CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) regulations by 2020 to 35 MPG. Enjoy these cars before they go away...

Most people now-a-days don't care what drive a car is. So advertising a RWD car is nearly pointless, unless your targeting the F-body crowds that would never buy an import anyway.

Or wear anything but a mullet...

It has been confirmed to hit a showroom near you in 2010/2011 in both Toyota and Subaru! Toyota is doubling it's ownership in Subaru to share designs including hybrid technology. My fat azz will try to stuff myself in a Toyota brand model...

http://www.motorauthority.com/cars/subar...ports-car/

man this is the only thing I'm waiting for from Toyota..the New Matrix rally
hehehe it's a mix of the new ST-I and a Celica..lol..oh yes it is AWD

closest ones that are out right now is the XRS model.


yes that is a turbo

This post was last modified: 04-10-2008 10:49 AM by PONGSxB.

man this is the only thing I'm waiting for from Toyota..the New Matrix rally
hehehe it's a mix of the new ST-I and a Celica..lol..oh yes it is AWD

closest ones that are out right now is the XRS model.


yes that is a turbo

Scion is rolling out a TRD turbo for the xB2 in the next couple weeks which is just the tC turbo. The Matrix you posted has a 2.4 as well and should have a TRD turbo available already if not soon...

that matrix is sik lookin

I found more info on this...


Toyota's full press release is below:



Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC), DAIHATSU MOTOR CO., LTD. (Daihatsu) and FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (FHI) announced today that they have agreed to expand their cooperative ties with new arrangements related to research and development and product supply.

Specifically, the three companies—aiming to strengthen their competitiveness by achieving mutual synergies through the apt application of each company's technological know-how—decided that:

1) TMC and FHI are to jointly develop a compact rear-wheel-drive sports car that will be marketed by both TMC and FHI.
2) TMC is to provide FHI with a compact car on an original-equipment-manufacturing (OEM) basis.
3) Daihatsu is to supply FHI with minivehicles and an FHI version of the Daihatsu "Coo" compact car on an OEM basis.

The compact rear-wheel sports car to be jointly developed by TMC and FHI is envisioned to offer a new "fun to drive" experience based on an all-new vehicle platform powered by an FHI core-technology horizontally-opposed engine. Market introduction is targeted for the end of 2011. Production is to take place at a new plant to be built at FHI's Gunma Manufacturing Division in Japan's Gunma Prefecture. TMC will consign production to FHI.

The compact car that TMC is to provide FHI on an OEM basis is aimed at letting FHI supplement its product lineup, with supply expected to start around the end of 2010.

The OEM supply of minivehicles for the Japanese market to FHI by Daihatsu is expected to allow FHI to focus its R&D and production resources on its main products. Such supply is planned to start in the second half of 2009. This arrangement is also expected to enable Daihatsu to improve its business efficiency, such as through increasing its cost competitiveness due to increased production volume.

Also, so that FHI can further enhance its product lineup, from this October, Daihatsu is to supply FHI on an OEM basis 6,000 units annually of its "Coo" compact vehicle produced at Daihatsu's Head (Ikeda) Plant in Osaka Prefecture.

Today's announcement is the latest development in a business relationship that was established in October 2005 and in which TMC and FHI have applied their mutual management resources in R&D and production. This relationship has also already resulted in, among others, consigned production at Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc.—FHI's North American production base in the United States—and OEM production by Daihatsu of an FHI compact car for the European market.

To further promote smooth business relations, TMC and FHI—while maintaining the management style and corporate identity of FHI—have reached a basic agreement on the transfer to TMC of 61 million FHI shares owned by FHI, pending approval by Japan's Fair Trade Commission. Following this transfer, TMC would own 16.5% of FHI issued shares.

TMC, Daihatsu and FHI intend to continue conducting wide-ranging discussions toward strengthening one another's long-term competitiveness and carrying out comprehensive cooperation for their growth worldwide.


[Source: Toyota]
[Image courtesy of Autocar]

that looks like a RSX

It does kind of...