Buri_Sportivo

Wholly **** my number is in there!!! juuusst kidding. Thanks for letting us know guys.

hahahhah these american's are gona kill us. so if you put em on a e46 m3, you will have extra 40kws lol. i would like to see that working when the car is at a fullstop so definately we all need remote controls. LOLskii.

All the young fellaz are gona try to start drifting near local supermarkets and rap the cars around poles lol. The first one was the best. The third will even be ****ter than 2nd i guess. The script looks so ****, no wonder why vin diesel didn't accept.

I'm assuming it is because the stamp on the video has a Chillian domain name and they were speaking Spanish and those roads looked like highways in Chile. Although I could be wrong. That guys hohoho laugh is v.funny. Enzo is damn fast.

true fromnow on im not saying anything till its certain. + i'll ask my dad again about it.

i would laugh if he is but everything he has told me has turned out correct. Ofcourse he isn't spinning **** but maybe he's mistaken. I asked him today if he was sure that the aurion he drove that day was awd? He says he definately remembers seeing smoke from the front wheels. I asked him about the rears, he says he doesn't remember the rears and he said that it was very easy of the car to do dohnuts and he was very impressed with the handling of the car and the power of the supercharger. Seriously i do not care anymore. Im sick of it. Im just going to ask his friends the next time i see em for the videos or pictures and if they say it was an awd system then im going to believe it but if they say something else im just going to wait and see. It's either fwd just like the normal aurion or it's awd. Because im thinking you really wouldn't focus on the rear tyres while doing dohnuts. Maybe that's why he doesn't recall. Anyway i'll just leave it to time. Sorry for the headaches in the mean time.

I believe my dad but i still want to see the spec sheet where it says " A W D ". That's because from one side people are saying normal aurion is fwd and supercharged version won't have a different drive system, some articles said it will and some didn't and from one side my dad's driven an awd version. Goddamn why can't i make people understand what im trying to say lol. I know my dad has driven it. I just want to make it clear for everyone that's awd. Daaammnnnnn give me a break.

There's somethings you need to consider before calling someone liar on the internet. As a human being not a robot, i can make typing mistakes. And yes as you showed some of them above, i can clearly see i made a few of them. It's definately 7. 2nd thing is when i ordered my corolla at the time it was a close moment for the sportivo corolla to end its production and there was only a silver and red available. However i ordered black. That's why i had 2 wait months for it. Please tell me how i was supposed to get a black corolla sportivo from a dealership when maybe they didn't even have any. Im not even sure where the cars come from. We have bought 3 toyota's till this day and im positive none of them came from the dealerships but straight out of the factory. What the fuk is a dealer going to know about when people give orders to the fkn factory. You gave your order to a dealer. I gave my order through the personel's at altona factory. And the person who gave the order in just not a normal customer, he's an employee. There's a bit of a difference there. Don't act like a smart ***** because you make no typing mistakes. I don't spend my life on the internet. I do not go over what i write on forums. Just because i made fkn 2-3 typing mistakes, it doesn't mean im lying. I don't give a rats ***** if you believe me or not. I am trully telling the truth. I might've mucked up peoples heads if i wrote 5 first and then 7 but i accept that it looks wrong and it's nothing but a typing mistake. Im going to be the one who's buying that car when it hits productions so what do you care about apart from your corolla? Im not giving false info here im telling you what i saw and hear. So please respect that.

they could prolly pull the its a JP/US part so we wont cover it.....as that would be the toyota thing to do.... I wasn't that shocked. They were speaking of a performance brand like hsv and pfv and all i could think of was TRD and that's what they did. All i want to hear right now is the confirmation of awd on the supercharged aurion. I have heard it is going to have it but i would love to see it on paper too as im going to buy it when it comes out.

Toyota takes on HSV and FPV 08-05-06 Words - John Carey Its new performance division aims to change buyer perceptions about the brand by toughening-up Toyota's image. Another part of Toyota’s grand plan to consolidate its position as Australia’s Number One automotive company was revealed yesterday. The announcement made it official that TRD (stands for Toyota Racing Development) is to be the brand for Toyota Australia’s future range of performance models. A supercharged version of the Australian-made six-cylinder Aurion will be the first TRD-branded model. It’s scheduled for launch in the second quarter of 2007. This car was previewed at the Melbourne International Motor Show earlier this year. In the Toyota Style Australia studio in Melbourne a huge block of foam was computer-carved to reveal some, but not too many, of the TRD Aurion’s design features. Hand finished to give the impression that a full-size car had been partly milled from a massive lump of solid titanium, the finished project was shown beside a much more real prototype of its supercharged 3.5-litre V6 engine. The move to compete with Holden’s HSV and Ford’s FPV is seen as critically important by senior Toyota Australia executives. And this represents a major alteration in attitude for the company. According to ebullient marketing boss Peter Evans, the process began with a thorough, nationwide market research program. The results, especially the finding that one out of every two new car buyers wouldn’t consider Toyota, were unexpected by some. “Our senior management were absolutely convinced that anybody would buy a Toyota,” says Evans, “we just have to have the right product.” “Forty eight percent said ‘Oh, no, Toyota doesn’t say the right things about me. I don’t aspire to a Toyota. If I drive a Toyota I’m seen as conservative’,” says Evans. “All the stuff you know… "We had to put it into perspective," Evans said. "There's a higher percentage who won't consider Holden, there's an even higher percentage who won't consider Ford, and there's an incredibly high percentage who won't even consider a Hyundai. “To move to 250,000 (annual sales in Australia) we have to increase the availability of people to the Toyota Brand,” he said. “We’re already Number One. There are more people who are willing to buy a Toyota than any other brand, based on our research. But, if we want to increase our sales even further, and move from 20 percent market share to 25 percent market share, then we’ve still got to bring some of that 48 percent into the fold.” High-performance models were identified as crucial to adding to Toyota’s appeal, Evans said, and to make the most of the company’s motorsport achievements. “We’ve got a fantastic, rich heritage in motorsport, going back to the Toyota-7 CanAm car, and winning the Thousand Lakes Rally with a Corolla in 1972, and we’ve won Indianapolis in 2003, but if you ask the average punter, and we have, they haven’t got a clue. And that’s our fault,” he said. The other problem was a shortage of cars that could credibly take advantage of Toyota’s past and present motorsport activities. Toyota headquarters had killed off Made-in-Japan models like the Celica and MR2. Further, Japan was unwilling to allocate scarce engineering resource to certifying the shrinking number of performance cars in its catalogue for Australia. If Toyota Motor Corporation couldn’t do it, explains Evans, then Toyota Motor Corporation Australia itself would have to take on the task of developing some exciting cars. “It [TRD Australia] was given added impetus, I guess, by the recognition that it could be one of the keys to unlocking the unavailable people who wouldn’t consider Toyota by giving us an image and a product they would like to drive,” Evans said. To read more about TRD, watch for Wheels June, on sale May 24. http://wheels.carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/Desk...&Alias=wheelsau

Toyota takes on HSV and FPV 08-05-06 Words - John Carey Its new performance division aims to change buyer perceptions about the brand by toughening-up Toyota's image. Another part of Toyota’s grand plan to consolidate its position as Australia’s Number One automotive company was revealed yesterday. The announcement made it official that TRD (stands for Toyota Racing Development) is to be the brand for Toyota Australia’s future range of performance models. A supercharged version of the Australian-made six-cylinder Aurion will be the first TRD-branded model. It’s scheduled for launch in the second quarter of 2007. This car was previewed at the Melbourne International Motor Show earlier this year. In the Toyota Style Australia studio in Melbourne a huge block of foam was computer-carved to reveal some, but not too many, of the TRD Aurion’s design features. Hand finished to give the impression that a full-size car had been partly milled from a massive lump of solid titanium, the finished project was shown beside a much more real prototype of its supercharged 3.5-litre V6 engine. The move to compete with Holden’s HSV and Ford’s FPV is seen as critically important by senior Toyota Australia executives. And this represents a major alteration in attitude for the company. According to ebullient marketing boss Peter Evans, the process began with a thorough, nationwide market research program. The results, especially the finding that one out of every two new car buyers wouldn’t consider Toyota, were unexpected by some. “Our senior management were absolutely convinced that anybody would buy a Toyota,” says Evans, “we just have to have the right product.” “Forty eight percent said ‘Oh, no, Toyota doesn’t say the right things about me. I don’t aspire to a Toyota. If I drive a Toyota I’m seen as conservative’,” says Evans. “All the stuff you know… "We had to put it into perspective," Evans said. "There's a higher percentage who won't consider Holden, there's an even higher percentage who won't consider Ford, and there's an incredibly high percentage who won't even consider a Hyundai. “To move to 250,000 (annual sales in Australia) we have to increase the availability of people to the Toyota Brand,” he said. “We’re already Number One. There are more people who are willing to buy a Toyota than any other brand, based on our research. But, if we want to increase our sales even further, and move from 20 percent market share to 25 percent market share, then we’ve still got to bring some of that 48 percent into the fold.” High-performance models were identified as crucial to adding to Toyota’s appeal, Evans said, and to make the most of the company’s motorsport achievements. “We’ve got a fantastic, rich heritage in motorsport, going back to the Toyota-7 CanAm car, and winning the Thousand Lakes Rally with a Corolla in 1972, and we’ve won Indianapolis in 2003, but if you ask the average punter, and we have, they haven’t got a clue. And that’s our fault,” he said. The other problem was a shortage of cars that could credibly take advantage of Toyota’s past and present motorsport activities. Toyota headquarters had killed off Made-in-Japan models like the Celica and MR2. Further, Japan was unwilling to allocate scarce engineering resource to certifying the shrinking number of performance cars in its catalogue for Australia. If Toyota Motor Corporation couldn’t do it, explains Evans, then Toyota Motor Corporation Australia itself would have to take on the task of developing some exciting cars. “It [TRD Australia] was given added impetus, I guess, by the recognition that it could be one of the keys to unlocking the unavailable people who wouldn’t consider Toyota by giving us an image and a product they would like to drive,” Evans said. To read more about TRD, watch for Wheels June, on sale May 24. http://wheels.carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/Desk...&Alias=wheelsau

then surely one of these 'cheering' people had a camera or a mobile with a camera and took a photo or 2....With the number of people walking around these days with this sort of technology, there is a bloody good chance that someone caught this on video.... Ok, i'll ask my old man's friends if they have done any recording. It's at the factory anyway i can guess that people were more busy looking at the car then taking their fones out and recording but yeh maybe someone recorded. It will be good to see a video too because i would like to see the aurion in action. :) btw I also asked my dad how come he didn't get trouble for doing dohnuts with it and he joked and said that all the people were already familiar with his driving abilities. :) It would be stupid for me to say that he's a very well balanced driver but he really does know how to control a car + he has worked for toyota for the last 7 years and he's a really good motivator for his workteam and he's a very respected man.

negatron you crack me up! i still dont believe you buri, so its off to get some pics ;) Go to altona, get in the factory after working hours, take off the case and even though you will get in deep ****, you will know what i mean atleast. Because i don't really care if you guys believe or not. Im just telling you what i know.

You guys still get the storyline wrong. 1. the car was covered out of reach before my dad took it out. 2. dad wanted to see the car's interior because he never saw it before.(mean while he did see the car's exterior just before they covered it up. 3. some time later the car's case was opened up once to show everybody what it looked like. 4. dad convinced his boss to get the keys to have a look at the interior. 5. after looking at the interior, turned on the engine without asking for permission and started to do dohnuts in an empty area guessing outside.( im guessing outside factory because no place to do dohnuts inside the factory) 6. got in a little trouble because he did not have permission to start up car in anyway. 7. works for toyota for the last 7 years and is a supervisor for the bumper bar team. 8. Is all this **** clear enough for you people this time. How hard can it be to convince you guys. Do i have to drive all the way to Altona to take pics of the damn thing???

wtf, thats a little strange to backpeddle as far as saying you were completely wrong/lying/insane. D: All Of The Above.... "lock it in Eddie" Lol what am i lying about? + why would i lie? The prices that i gave you guys will be proven soon and the car specs. so i don't know why you guys would make such a deal of it. + i don't know if its prototype. I never asked. All i know it was covered and out of reach.