Toyota's Next MR2

[midship]

Toyota Motor Corp. is hinting that a new sports car might be in the works, meant to fill a gap left by the retirement of the MR2 two-seater.

“We used to have a lot of sports http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070910/FREE/70910019/1530/FREE#, but not anymore,” Kazuo Okamoto, executive vice president for R&D, told Automotive News. “So now we want to try it again.”

Okamoto made the comments after speaking last month about Toyota’s midterm business plan and said the company must launch more “appealing products” that are “fun to drive.” Okamoto added that the strategy will involve the “development of a new sports model.”

The presentation was accompanied by a slide show depicting a http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070910/FREE/70910019/1530/FREE# sports car along with two other sporty concept cars. One car bears the Toyota logo on the hood. After the presentation, Okamoto said there were no concrete plans.

Toyota’s midengined MR2 dates back to 1984. It was retired this year.

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[koolspyda]

FT-HS is battery on front & below; hardly a midship :)

Toyoda will introduce a sports car in their line up from 2008 onwards, thats a certainty.

 

[koolspyda]

if at all, some latest spy shots early this year.

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/09/mr-2.jpg

MR2 - Redux??
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/14/mr2-redux-snagged-on-transporter/

Nah. Highly unlikely. In your dreams. That's what the folks at Toyota said as I handed the keys to the MR-S V-Edition back to them earlier this year and asked if Toyota had another mid-engined sports car on the drawing board.

So what, pray tell, is this litle number spotted on the back of a Toyota transporter near Nagoya earlier this summer? Toyota is keeping mum, but could this be another prototype from the Committee to create Interesting Cars? Let's hope so.

 

[koolspyda]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y96/koolspyda/2007MR-Soncover.jpg

it will never go away, the stories i mean. we wish. we wish but only the big bosses in yota decides