What Toyota really needs is more mainstream excitement. Toyota needs BMW like a fish needs a bicycle. The company wants more exciting products and even considered a mash-up with BMW to create a sports car. Toyota has had big changes in attitude at the top lately. The FR-S is literally at the top of the list despite being third in sales for the brand. Check out the Scion website if you don’t believe me. In a twist of irony, one reason the tC might continue to be only a non-turbo car is that Toyota might like to keep the FR-S at the top of the list over at Scion. Were Scion to make the tC a little more visually interesting (like the Veloster), and add this new engine, it might sell more cars. In the Scion tC, which sells equally well compared to the FR-S, or just as terribly, depending upon your view point, the new Lexus 2.0 turbo would in fact slot right in. Perhaps Toyota will have a chat with Subaru and figure out how to add 50 ft-lbs of torque to the cars they designed to be sporty, but are in fact slower than Legacy and Camry sedans. As a former owner of a ’79 Supra, I know very well that Toyota as a brand has always bumped up the size of its cars and the power of its engines during model redesigns. That is why my story line mentions the next design iteration of the Scion. So I know it won’t drop right into the existing FS-S engine bay. Instead, it will most likely be an in-line 4 with counter-rotating balance shafts. All the other manufacturers are now gaming the system by using turbos to trick the EPA test cycle for an extra MPG or two, so why not join the party? I am no fan of turbos as readers of my work know, but I like them a lot more than underpowered engines.īefore any Scion FR-S fans blow a cerebral artery, yes, I know that the Lexus turbo four will very likely not be a boxer (horizontally opposed) style engine.
That move got me wondering if Toyota is waking up to the fact that it, like Honda, pretty much missed the boat. Now that Lexus has recently introduced a new 2.0 liter turbo engine to drive its new LF-NX crossover things might be changing at Toyota in general (parent of Scion and Lexus).
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