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MY good lord what a weapon of a noise! After driving Scoota's SX6 today and doing blast by's on eh highway i can’t wait to get my hands on one of these! :P

Quite disappointing in these images compared to the concept2. Fronts not angrier enough and the back reminds me of the last gen MR2. Really needs the diffuser and "high mount" spoiler!

As paradigm highlighted your interim service is 7500kms or 6monthly which should be carried out under severe conditions i.e bumper to bumper traffic daily, many weekend thrashings or operating in extremely cold or hot climates. To answer your question it can really depend on your own particle circumstance. Usually it will be 6 months from the day you pick up your vehicle or from the day the balance of your new car warranty expires. BUT since Aurion usually gets serviced yearly under TSA you will never go over this time period. so say you got your car serviced today and your new car warranty expires in 3months and used car one kicks in on the same day your car will only at worse go 9 months between its service which of course is no longer that before under TSA guidelines.

Post a picture up of the exact head unit in your lux, (there is a couple of slightly different ones) i can give you a step by step guide on how to connect the phone. BUT nokia's do seem to give us the most grief of any phone. but yeah i think i know which ehad unit you have shuld be the oen in the attached picture below yes?

Right... you did have a look around the club didn’t you? Did you notice how the vast majority of owners on here have either previous or current generation Corolla's, Camry's and of course Aurion? Hardly old school cars..

i usually try and keep my pressures around 36psi in the front and 38psi in the rear :)

This description is spot on. I've seen the prototype in the flesh and it feral is exactly how I described it. I hope they can the prototype. lol yes i was told it wouldnt be for everybodis tastes, so we will wait and see. hopefully the accessory wheel will set things off a bit.

I'd love to see Phillips give you a "free upgrade" of the HID's on your Camry (what do you mean by upgrade anyway.. colour temp?) since the 40 series Camry DOESNT Have HID's nor does any Camry model for that matter. The fact you couldnt already tell this fact about your car doesnt do great things for your previous comment.. massive difference in light performance/colour Between HID's and Halogens. Anyway nextttt...

"Bumper creep" is a bit of problem with all modern cars with low slung spoilers from all brands and is usually caused by but not limited to bottoming out on driveways, speed humps parking bay stoppers. If you’re lucky sometimes you can adjust the bracket the bar sits on just enough to fix the gap. Sometimes even just taking the bar off and back on can help a little.

I’m told that Toyota really wanted to go for the Prestige end of the market with the Middle Eastern Camry which of course will be our new Aurion so there’s lots of bling and chrome to give the car the VIP look. However there still is a Sportivo model or whatever it will be called (possible just SX and ZR)and apparently its a feral in your face looking thing which looks like it has 400hp at the wheels BUT really needs the larger accessory wheel to finish off the tough look. So there is still hope for a pretty special machine :)

Yerpp that's her aright.

Here's some incar footage from last weekends Tassie Round. :) Incar Footage

That's carbies. Engines in these are out of large capacity motorbikes. FZR1000 engines are pretty common. I'm guessing this one is an XJ1300 or something, judging by the air cooling and 1.3L capacity. Very cool little car. A guy in my street used to test his out every now and again. Fast little bugger it was. Good to see one based on a Toyota. Yeah there out of big Yammie Cruiser bikes, a lot of the teams actually used to buy the bikes just for the engines so back when we ran the 1.2 they were rarely new engines but the 1.3 is off the shelf though brand spankers! Not sure which bike they are used in though. They spend a very long time designing the Aurion version they actually took photos of a real TRD from every single angle, put them in their CAD software and pulled and pushed, tweaked till it fitted over the rolling chassis.

Haha yes i laughed when i heard that bit too. There just a laughable car to be in just goes where you want it! & to watch there is just no other motorsport on the planet that is as enjoyable to watch. I believe Phil Ward the category founder is working on a 2 seater so people can go for rides like you can with the Supercars so that will be awesome once it happens.

Lol i actually have a few pictures of the race car next to mine and also next to an Aurion that is ran in the speedway series. Ill dig them out and post them up. For a race car there not massively expensive especially for the smile they put on your face. not sure if you can run them in any categories other than the national series though? but if you planned on just doing club days then you shouldn't have any dramas. The gearboxes are pretty tough units i cant recall us ever blowing one or a diff either but the engines do cop quite a canning they can last a season without any massive repairs but it depends on the track. Of course even though they are sourced from Yamaha they are essentially a motorbike engine and are designed to run with air flowing all around them which they dont get when stuck inside a body shell so engine trauma can happen in very hot climates and enclosed circuits. id expect a bit of engine damage to occur at the next round in Sydney at the closed in street circuit but as far as an engine in a race car goes they hold up pretty well. if you keep on an eye on both the Aussie Racing website and in several Motorsport magaziness the Cars and trailers pop up every couple of months.

haha yeah they race for sheep stations allright! but it really a catergory where driving skill shines

Absolutely there a proper purpose built race car made in a state of the art race factory. They seem to have the power to weight ratio down pretty sweet with these cars now and Supercar drivers love them. They all say the Aussie racer is far better balanced and turns in and stops much better. There closer to open wheeler formula cars in characteristics then a tin top. don’t quote me on this but i believe its around 40k to buy a car then of course you need spares although the engines are good for an entire season and of course a trailer to transport it in. costs around 7-8k per round to race also. Here is the promo video for the series. It’s quite old now though so you won’t see the Aurion in it only the TRD factory backed one used as promo. I’ll find some other good ones for you though.

haha yes they are quite a cute car however the drivers get very defensive about the cute comments and are very quick to tell you these things are serious RACE CARS lol True steven other than the badge and design they share nothing with our Aurion's but then to be fair a HRT, Team Vodafone Commodore shares nothing with the SS you buy from Holden either.

Hey Guys, Thought i would share this with you. Thought it might interest a couple of you. As a few of you may know the owners of Gowans Motor Group Bruce and Son and current Dealer Principal Adam have a rich motorsport history with Bruce winning multiple Tasmanian championships and Australian wide races and Adam competing in several endurance races including the Bathurst 12 hour race but his main claim to fame is as the 2009 champion in the ultra-competitive Aussie Racing Car series. Adam also almost clinched the 2010 series as well after many race and round wins all he needed to do was to win the last race of the last round... he was leading said race until half way through the last lap the engine gave up the ghost pushing him down the order too second overall in the championship for the year. 2011 saw Adam concentrate his efforts even more on the Dealerships with VW joining our Motor Group early on in the year. But the racing bug is back and in preparation for his home race at Symons plaines the Race Team hooked the trailer up to the new VW Twin-Turbo Amarok tow vehicle and headed to Phillip Island where Adam would drive the car properly in "anger" for the first time in 6 months!! He qualified the Blue and Silver Eagle1, NWC, Toyota & VW TRD Aurion on the first row of the grid but found some oil left by the V8 Supercars on the race line into turn one and had an off track excursion across the kitty litter and long infield before re-joining at the back of the pack (Over 45 cars in the field) he fought back and finished race 1 in 18th position. Over the next few races he fought back to claim second spot in the last race. Off to Symons plains! The Aurion's once again put on a dominant display! Adam had another fantastic home round. Finished 10th in race one due to drama's after Jack Perkins ran into the back of Gowans tearing the rear diffuser and bumper apart. If you’re familiar with how the F duct works on a F1 car then the remains of the diffusers was working in the entire opposite way making the No.11 Aurion a relative easy picking in a straight line. However Gowans fought back to claim the win in race 2 which of course seen him get the “success penalty” for the reverse grid race three but he managed an easy third place. After a quick points tally he started the final race from grid position 5 and after a super close race he took the lead in the hairpin on the final lap but after going veryyyy deep into the hairpin to secure pos 1 he crossed the Toyota up mid corner so he did not get a stellar run out of the corner leaving him very open to second placed car in this ultra competitive slip streaming series but somehow he held on for finger nail biting photo finish which was easily the best race of the day! Anyway here is a few up close pictures of the Aussie racing Aurion. Notice the attention to detail with the GSV40 Aurion in comparison to the AU Falcon and VY Commodore. Also notice the high down force splitter and rear wing Aero Package fitted to the car for the high speed tracks such the Phillip island circuit & Bathurst. My link Technical Specifications Engine Yamaha Sourced 1.3 litre twin-cam 4 Valves per cylinder HP??? The old 1.2 made 125hp so it's more than that, 11500rpm Gearbox Integral 5-speed dog engagement Sequential gear change Chassis Tubular space-frame and cockpit with integral driver roll-cage Momo race seat with 5 point harness Momo quick-release steering wheel Suspension Front – Coil over shocks fully adjustable rose jointed wishbones Ultra fast rack and pinion Rear – Live axle, optional long and short track ratios Coil over shocks, parallel trailing arms, panhard rod Brakes Ventilated 4 wheel discs 4 piston callipers with - Full bias adjustment with balance bar, braided lines Wheels and Tyres 13 x 5.5 various styles available Yokahama A048R treaded race spec tyres Body Styles Classic FJ Holden Classic 40 Ford Ford AU Falcon Holden VY Commodore Toyota GSV40R Aurion Dimensions Length: 3.0m Width: 1.35m Height: 1.05m Weight: 450kg Performance Top speed 235+KPH Standing quarter 11.5 secs 0 to 100 KPH 4.5 secs

I'll try and remember to get a picture of them working at night so you can get a better idea of how well they work and how bright they are. Was going to do it last night but hay it was Thirsty Thursday and all haha :)

mm ok interesting lol. but my god whats with toyota's alloy wheel design talk about boring and doing not much for the car!

So yeah dead easy fix. just like i was thinking wrapping the connections up in nitto tape has solved the issue and the LED strips now work spot on every time :)