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Toyota on the mend?

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#15617 of 16274 Siri button on Toyotas by ateixeira

Jun 13, 2012 (1:48 pm)

http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120613/OEM06/120619952/1491-
 
Toyota's been taking the right approach - Entune uses your existing smart phone.
 
Now they'll have a Siri button the steering wheel, too.
 
It's much easier to say "Navigate Home" vs. having to press a bunch of buttons. Siri's natural speech will make this work much better than existing (limited) voice commands.

#15618 of 16274 BRZ and FR-S #1 and #2 on Quick Sell List by ateixeira

Jun 20, 2012 (10:19 am)

http://blogs.insideline.com/straightline/2012/06/subaru-br-z-scion-fr-s-top-edmu- nds-list-of-quickest-selling-vehicles.html

#15619 of 16274 Lexus tops J.D. Power's 2012 U.S. Initial Quality Study by ateixeira

Jun 20, 2012 (10:53 am)

Lexus topped J.D. Power's 2012 U.S. Initial Quality Study for the second year in a row with 73 problems reported per 100 models tracked, the same as in 2011.
 
Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20120620/OEM/120629993#ixzz1yMDCSvtf

#15620 of 16274 LF-A nearly sold out by ateixeira

Jun 22, 2012 (9:14 am)

http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/06/better-hurry-lexus-lfa-supercar-sold-out- -almost/
 
Despite all the cries about it being overpriced...
 
I hope they build a coupe in the $70 to 90k range next.

#15621 of 16274 Re: LF-A nearly sold out [ateixeira] by fintail

Jun 22, 2012 (9:20 am)

Replying to: ateixeira (Jun 22, 2012 9:14 am)
Low supply combined with a new gilded age for the 1% combined with speculators makes it easy. It is an amazing car, but for pure performance it is far from a value proposition.
 
They had a 70K coupe just a few years ago - shaped like a football, driven by women with stretched back eyes and retired dentists living in Del Boca Vista - it was called the SC430.

#15622 of 16274 Re: LF-A nearly sold out [fintail] by ateixeira

Jun 22, 2012 (9:39 am)

Replying to: fintail (Jun 22, 2012 9:20 am)
Good for the soul to shoot the moon once in a while.
 
Let's see one priced down to earth next. Let the F sport division lead and not the marketing dept.

#15623 of 16274 Re: LF-A nearly sold out [ateixeira] by fintail

Jun 22, 2012 (11:15 am)

Replying to: ateixeira (Jun 22, 2012 9:39 am)
After what seemed like several millenia of bland, they need it. I kind of wish the LF-A was a Toyota model and not the isobeige, though.
 
90K isn't down to earth. At most, what is really needed is a new Supra, no more than 50K.

#15624 of 16274 Re: LF-A nearly sold out [fintail] by ateixeira

Jun 22, 2012 (12:41 pm)

Replying to: fintail (Jun 22, 2012 11:15 am)
FRS is a hit and credit them for pushing Subaru into DI. We probably will see a Supra...
 
Some one over there has a pulse...

#15625 of 16274 Re: LF-A nearly sold out [ateixeira] by fintail

Jun 22, 2012 (2:47 pm)

Replying to: ateixeira (Jun 22, 2012 12:41 pm)
Hopefully the Supra will be a Toyota and not a glammed up Lexus.
 
I wonder where those pulse people were for over a decade. Enthusiasts wanted to embrace Toyota, just had so little reason to for so long.

#15626 of 16274 Re: LF-A nearly sold out [fintail] by steve_ HOST

Jun 22, 2012 (3:36 pm)

Replying to: fintail (Jun 22, 2012 2:47 pm)
Probably didn't see much need while they were selling everything they could make and overtaking GM in the process. And maybe they thought the Scion experience would sway the new drivers more than speedboats.

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