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Motorsports Toyota joins NASCAR!
75 messages, Last post on Jun 09, 2009 at 6:47 AM
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Who could have predicted this? "In what has been common knowledge....Toyota announced on Monday that it would...compete in the 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series using the Camry..." A hot rod Camry (?!) runnin' shine on the back roads of North Carolina with the revenooers in hot pursuit. http://www.autoextremist.com/page3.shtml
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Replying to: scott1256 (Jan 25, 2006 7:41 am) Go to a race, look at what's in the parking lot. Of course there's tons of F-150's and Silverado's but more and more you are seeing, Tundra's, Camrys, Accords etc. This ain't your fathers NASCAR!!
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Replying to: au94 (Jan 25, 2006 7:46 am) F1 could learn a thing or two from NASCAR in that respect. |
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what brand of car competes. All of the cars that compete have to fit a basic body template. You can't buy an 8cyl Fusion, or a RWD Fusion or RWD Monte Carlo. A Camry shouldn't be so suprising. Regardless of what your opinion is about the quality of Nascar racing, it is big business. Driver's fans are also very loyal (sometimes to an almost scary extent). I guarantee you that there will be a lot of Camries purchased by people that would never before even have considered one, just because their favorite driver drives one. |
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...is the fact that GM/Ford/Dodge has had decades of experience building/tuning pushrod OHV V8's displacing roughly 350ci. And now Toyota has had to build from the ground up a new pushrod V8 to comply with Nascar's rules. And they've done quite well with their motors in the Nascar Truck series the last couple of years.
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Replying to: rorr (Jan 25, 2006 8:33 am) |
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Replying to: rorr (Jan 25, 2006 8:33 am)
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| NASCAR sucks. I'm disappointed with Toyota for going there, but I guess they can afford to throw their money away on a boondoggle. Baseball, apple pie, and Toyota! | |
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Replying to: 1racefan (Jan 25, 2006 8:47 am) And you would be correct. Good article from Car and Driver on Toyota's effort in the Nascar Truck Series. I would expect their effort in the Cup cars to be very very similar. http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=8125&page_number- =1
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Replying to: rorr (Jan 25, 2006 9:48 am)
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