Toyota FT-1 Makes it all Better at Cars and Coffee Irvine

A dose of compelling concept car into your bloodstream makes everything better just like two Advil during a hangover … or a bloody Mary … or the remainder of the beer you had left over from the night before. Pick your poison.

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The remedy to make everything better at this past weekend’s Cars and Coffee in Irvine was the Toyota FT-1. The concept’s recent appearance at C&C may have been its only outdoor appearance, either for a long time … or ever.

If this is the only time the FT-1 is going to be outdoors and gleaming before the public’s ravenous eyes, we have a tragedy on our hands.

Looking at the crowd around the car, the FT-1 may have been the most popular vehicle at the show, perhaps with the McLaren P1 coming in a close second place. More people need to be able to see this concept, and Toyota needs to see more instances of people’s positive reactions to it because I emphatically want a successor to the Supra. Also, I would like to see a “Lexus-ified” version. There is no doubt a successor to the Lexus LFA would be wonderful, but a Supra successor would be the greatest thing since the invention of wounds healing.

On the other side of the parking lot refracting higher-quality sunlight than the Sun itself could produce, sat a 1967 Toyota 2000GT. It was the perfect complement to the FT-1: on one end, Japan’s first serious sports car — on the other end, Japan’s next serious sports car. Together, they created a magical remedy to make everything better, just like your mom used to do after you got an “owie” on your Huffy.

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