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Motorsports Toyota joins NASCAR!
75 messages, Last post on Jun 09, 2009 at 6:47 AM
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 25, 2006 4:50 pm) This could be the only manufacturer for which the money pumped into NASCAR is worth it. Toyota will get a lot of use out of this PR. |
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Replying to: carlisimo (Jan 25, 2006 5:02 pm) if you are right about napa, i don't get that. are they international?
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So Toyota has joined the fools of the Big 2.5 that throw hundreds of millions at NASCAR, and get nothing out of it. Let's be serious - NASCAR has been a joke for about the last 20 years. It is popular because it gives people an excuse to get some sun, get drunk, and hopefully see an accident. Even the sunburned drunks know the cars have absolutely nothing in common with what is sold in the dealerships. Well, except for maybe the ones who also believe Pro Wrestling is real.
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Replying to: jsylvester (Jan 25, 2006 6:33 pm) are there any camry commercials during the games?  nascar is definitely sports-ertainment. does not make it bad, though. |
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| its a lost sport, the cars are extremly dated technologically, back in the 70's you could go and buy a ford tornio almost like the race car, heck it had a v8 and rwd, now the only nascar that you can get a v8 in is the charger. stupid, the cars are mostly based of off fwd v6 family cars. the speeds are not even a big deal, back in the 70's cars were also going the about the same speeds they still use carburation as well, which is dumb and yeah i understand it eliminates the need for computers, blah blah, but if you were to compare modern nascar to say, skiing, the skiiers would still be using hand carved wooden skis. but i can understand how watching cars that look exactly the same, save a few headlight decals, do 1000 left turns in a row. how intense!! | |
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 25, 2006 5:55 pm) |
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Replying to: jsylvester (Jan 25, 2006 6:33 pm) Bold statement. Do you have any way to back up your assertion regarding the money that Ford/GM/DCX dumps into NASCAR? What makes you think they getting nothing out of it? The domestic automakers have been involved for decades; one would think that if they got nothing out of it, they would have stopped long ago. I wonder how much benefit the manufacturers get from their participation in CART/IRL? Can you tell us what form of motorsport that the manufacturers get the most benefit from? |
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 25, 2006 5:55 pm) if you are right about napa, i don't get that. are they international?" RedBull has been involved in F1 racing for a while - not exactly a low budget sport. Just curious, what do you not get about Napa's involvement? They have sponsored the #15 Chevy for Michael Waltrip in the past, and will be sponsoring the #55 Dodge for Michael Waltrip this season. They will then go with Michael Waltrip in '07 when he races with Toyota. It makes pretty good sense that a supplier of automotive parts would sponsor a race car...regardless of the brand.
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...depends less on what car is driven and more on the driver. You put a good driver in a Kia Optima NASCAR race car and he could win. Toyota has only one V-8. Is the Bodine-block based off the same engine used in the Lexus LS430?
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of the new NASCAR recruits. It would not surprise me if Nissan, Honda and Hyundai follow within a few years. You heard it here first. |
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