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by **MasCam** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:52 pm

Saw this in one of the aussie car mags so looked it up on the net to share with all of you

Toyota blade master g

Now where is that TRD supercharger kit off the Aurion

by **FST4RD** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:57 pm

Golf R32 challenger

No where near as nice looking and it's auto, no mention of a manual....

by **Adamal** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:58 pm

Better be a 4WD with that little weight and that much torque

OMG so shiny! · by **Dell'Orto** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:01 pm

Awesome! Bet its filthy FWD and will fry tyres all day long

by **sigma** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:03 pm

Adamal wrote:Better be a 4WD with that little weight and that much torque

My moneys on FWD.

by **Adamal** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:11 pm

Yea, I'm placing money on that too, but I'm just in denial

by **Mr Revhead** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:30 pm

in a few years, maybe 5, maybe 10. toyota cars will all be autos or semi autos.

seeing as its using the RX engine and from the interior shots id say its FWD.
but so what?

by **FST4RD** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:00 am

Mr Revhead wrote:in a few years, maybe 5, maybe 10. toyota cars will all be autos or semi autos.

Would they do that?
i'm sure there's still a lot of people that would want to drive a real gearbox still, plus economically speaking it's cheaper to produce a manual box rather then a dirty old auto....

by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:05 am

manuals are incompatable with hybrid systems

plus if you look at sales of manuals vs autos....

by **MasCam** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:23 am

Yeah the ST246 caldina's are auto only :cry:

And it is FWD accoring to the magizine that I first saw it in

I'm betting on a hugely intrusive traction control system

PICS UPDATED DAILY · by **method** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:26 am

Some of toyotas new autos sound pretty good like the one on their lexsuses.

The torque converter will lock when its out of first gear and well its pretty much like a sequential box in a racecar.. but no quite.

by **barryogen** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:33 am

FST4RD wrote:Would they do that?

Why wouldn't they? most cars these days come in auto... maybe with a manual option. The new autos are bloody good, and getting better.

FST4RD wrote:i'm sure there's still a lot of people that would want to drive a real gearbox still, plus economically speaking it's cheaper to produce a manual box rather then a dirty old auto....

I would be willing to bet that it's not cheaper once you take the R&D for the manual GB out of it.

Take a drive in a new Smart four4(or 44, or 4four, or whatever it is called), it's an auto with a manual gear stick... best of both worlds, no clutch peddle so the mrs can drive it just fine, foot flat and change gears at will...

Although it's not quick by any means... but it's also not made for that market.

Oh yeah... and I like it.

by **FST4RD** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:56 pm

Yeah but when you go through the AA magazines and things like that the auto's are around 2-3g's more in a new car... meaning that it must be more expensive, and most new "smart" autos have computers and things attached to them. I would personally never own an auto unless I lost my left leg or something or they had a setup something like the F1, rally, indy cars where it changes gears only up and down when you tell it to and straight away. i've driven a few tiptronics, mitsi and toyota and think that they are slow and cumbersom.....

I mean that'll be the day that you go to bathhurst and watch the V8 supercars and they have auto's or watching the d1 where someone sticks a slush box in an AE86 and goes mad :lol:

by **barryogen** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:20 pm

FST4RD wrote:I would personally never own an auto unless I lost my left leg or something or they had a setup something like the F1, rally, indy cars where it changes gears only up and down when you tell it to and straight away.

Watch the F1 guys hands next time they show one going down the straights... quite a few of them have auto up-shift, they control only the down shift, it means that that they have one less thing to concentrate on, and the computer can shift gears at the most suitable RPM

by **FST4RD** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:40 pm

barryogen wrote:
FST4RD wrote:I would personally never own an auto unless I lost my left leg or something or they had a setup something like the F1, rally, indy cars where it changes gears only up and down when you tell it to and straight away.

Watch the F1 guys hands next time they show one going down the straights... quite a few of them have auto up-shift, they control only the down shift, it means that that they have one less thing to concentrate on, and the computer can shift gears at the most suitable RPM

Yeah pity road cars don't have autos like that :lol:

by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:56 pm

no they shift up too
auto boxs are banned

Profile · by **skoty** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:58 pm

Bloody slushmatics! I guess at the end of the day its about supply and demand. More car buyers prefer autos so more autos are going to be produced. I know my girlfriend wouldn't touch a manual unless I made her drive my car :lol:

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