Toyota reviving Celica name for joint Subaru RWD car
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Toyota reviving Celica name for joint Subaru RWD car
The last report about the on again/off again sports car being developed jointly by Toyota and Subaru was that it's on again. Today comes word from L'Automobile in France that not only is the rear-wheel-drive Toyubaru going to happen, but it will arrive bearing the Celica name sometime in 2010. If Wikipedia is to be believed, this would be the eighth generation of the Celica, which traces its roots all the way back to 1970 when it debuted in Japan as an inexpensive rear-wheel-drive sports car. Through the years it switched to front- and all-wheel drive, with the final seventh generation Celica sold from 2000 - 2005 being a strict cart puller. L'Automobile claims that Thierry Dombreval, Toyota's VP of sales and marketing in France, spilled the beans on reviving the Celica name, so we won't consider this news solid until a second source comes forward or Toyota officially confirms it, neither of which is likely to happen. So for now all you Celica fans should just sit tight and light a few candles for your cause.
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autoblog and recently edmunds...
rumor mills indeed..
those guys are getting desperate for site traffic it seems.. digging in cemeteries for information that should've stayed dead.
rumor mills indeed..
those guys are getting desperate for site traffic it seems.. digging in cemeteries for information that should've stayed dead.
^^^ha who knows. i read one article that says a subie version in US and toyota in japan and then another says its gonna be the new tc and this one says its gonna be the celica.... 
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They're both coupes. Other than that the details are all different.
The Genesis and the G37 are made to look inoffensive to everyone so as to appeal to everyone. What that does is make a ubiquitous RWD coupe that will look like everything and, by extension, everything will look like it.
The only way to be different from the Genesis is by making something radically different, like round head lights or fender lines that are higher than the hood lines or something or rather. And we know Toyota isn't going to have something "radical." Scion, perhaps, but not Toyota.
The Genesis and the G37 are made to look inoffensive to everyone so as to appeal to everyone. What that does is make a ubiquitous RWD coupe that will look like everything and, by extension, everything will look like it.
The only way to be different from the Genesis is by making something radically different, like round head lights or fender lines that are higher than the hood lines or something or rather. And we know Toyota isn't going to have something "radical." Scion, perhaps, but not Toyota.
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I didn't even click the link. Read the quote box, and felt the link wasn't clickworthy from autoblog regarding the Toyobaru. Until there's an actual running concept that's to be appearing at shows I'm just taking it as rumor.