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    At 537A, 351H

    It makes them among the rarest factory toyota's ever made. in fact the only others to my knowlege that were made in fewer numbers were:

    2000GT (1967)
    Corolla Sportivo Turbbo (2001)
    TA64 Group B Celica turbo (1983/4)

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    Money hungry marketing, they put little effort into the whole concept to try and get alot of money out of it.
    Once again Australian companies are still targeting people aged 45+, I look forward to the day that things are marketed for younger generations. Suprisingly even Hyundai are getting the idea with their new coupe being turbo and RWD and they are Korean and don't usually listen to anything but somebody finally did, not sure if it is any good though at least it is a start. There is plenty of great cars in Japan, but I think they look at Australia and go hmm retirement village, just dress up the cheap slow cars, that will keep the general population (over 45 ) happy.
    Maybe in 20 yrs time, hope the AE86 can last till then.......

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    LOL.

    Aus TRD is a failture. TRD hilux? WTF were they thinking.

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    Thy weren't actually!
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    they made trd hilux to make the lebos atleast have some street cred

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    At first glance, I totally thought that said "... to make the lesbos atleast have..."

    heh

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    they tried that back in 2001 with the "Corolla Sportivo" - from what i've ready they had problems selling them (low $30's i think). There were only 100 released here (110 or 115 including their "test" cars). Having said that, i got one that was a couple of years old with 15000 on the clock - cool little car, and got alot of "wtf" looks, BUT, at the end of the day its still a FWD, and had torque steer issues. These were selling for mid $20's after a while, which was around the same price as 200sx's and r33/34 skylines etc, so not much wonder why they werent that popular (took me quite a while to sell mine because of this!!!).

    Maybe toyota will realise Aus needs a small RWD car when this new hyundai starts to sell a bit cause it'll pretty much be the only thing in the market of its type (new).

    I agree with comments above though, TRD hilux = bad decision, plus i thought it looked pretty ugly, and you cant ever have lots of power through FWD (in the case of the aurions) cause of the torque steer (my sportivo was bad enough, let alone an aurion with double the power).
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    Ever heard of equal length driveshafts?

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    If the TRD Aurion was an AWD it would of been such a bigger hit.

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    agreed.. I think a RWD would hit the mark nicely.. but I have been very disappointed with toyota because they have forgotten what sells cars. if you look at the holden model for marketing, they make "shit hot" cars and plug them hard knowing that if they make a awesome performance car based on a shitty family sedan everyone will buy the shitty cheapo dodgy bogan commodore because they know that holden can make "performance cars".. thats why they are the top selling car company in OZ.. toyota do the opposite. they make great average boring standard cars and do it well.. but performance cars... they just keep threatening to bring them out like the rumored Subaru toyota coop and the supra they were "developing". they have gone soft and I really thought TRD was the answer. if they made shit hot cars people would buy their shitty standard cars.

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