Toyota has gone back to its performance automobile roots with an incredible new front engine, rear-wheel drive sports automobile concept at the Detroit show. Called the Toyota FT-1 (stands for ‘Future Toyota’) the concept will be available to download and drive on racing game Gran Turismo 6 from tomorrow.
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Whether it will make production, though, is less clear. At this stage Toyota is calling it a purely a styling exercise, and an excuse to let the design team express themselves.
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However, Kevin Hunter, president of Toyota’s CALTY design studio that is responsible for the FT-1, hasn’t ruled out making it a reality. “We always like to see our concepts as having a purpose,” hunter told us.
“The next step is to see what the publics thinks and take it from there.” another Toyota spokesman went one step further: “The plan is to gauge a reaction at take the plan from there. personally I think the show is enough time to get a good idea of the reaction.”
Design work on the concept started just under two years ago and draws on Toyota’s history of fast cars, including the 2000 GT, Celica and Supra.