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.

My dad's been a toyota employee for the last 7 years and he got invited to drive the supercharged aurion. Apparently they kept it in this closed case and he got permission to see the inside and test it out. He said that it was 250kw and awd. He also got a big applause from the workers when he started doing burnouts in the factory. Price as he was told was going to start from around 45k and go upto 65k plus for the full option supercharged aurion. They told him it comes out September this year. But he said that he still has to get that date verified to give a clear answer for the production release. And one more thing, it was a 6 speed tiptronic gearbox. So im guessing, bye bye HSV + FPV. AWD burnouts in the factory hey... sounds far fetched to me. Papa said "Alligators is angry cause they got all them teeth and no toothbrush" I think full of sh.t is closer to the mark. Dad got "invited" to drive it, but he needed special permission to "see the inside", wouldn't driving it involve "seeing inside"? I'm sure he would have got plenty of applause if he somehow managed to get a well engineered all wheel drive to do burnouts "in the factory". As for the "Bye Bye HSV and FPV", I wasn't aware that those companies were concentrating on cracking the 6 cyl AWD market, maybe you know something that we dont? Ohh Ahh, a six speed tiptronic, I think Im going to cream my pants on the spot, thats a brand new concept. I mean, can you imagine, a 6 speed tiptronic, must be a world first FFS mate, we didn't come down in the last shower. . . . . LOL, sorry for messing up peoples heads i must've been drunk or something, when i mean't seeing the inside, he saw the car's exterior before but because it was in a closed case, he never had to chance to see the interior. I don't know where i pulled the word burnouts from but it's supposed to be donuts and the car was semi-auto or tiptronic, whatever you want it to call it. Speaking of cracking the 6cyl AWD market, the things that aurion will share with those brands is performance, umm lemmi see i guess how many doors it has ohh and wait they are all family sports cars. That's why i said Bye Bye HSV and FPV, if you know what i mean.

My dad's been a toyota employee for the last 7 years and he got invited to drive the supercharged aurion. Apparently they kept it in this closed case and he got permission to see the inside and test it out. He said that it was 250kw and awd. He also got a big applause from the workers when he started doing burnouts in the factory. Price as he was told was going to start from around 45k and go upto 65k plus for the full option supercharged aurion. They told him it comes out September this year. But he said that he still has to get that date verified to give a clear answer for the production release. And one more thing, it was a 6 speed tiptronic gearbox. So im guessing, bye bye HSV + FPV.

I think thats a fair call, if you refer to Toyota Australia that is. If you mean toyota worldwide, then you have been playing too much GT4 :). You gotta remember that Toyota Australia will also want to look after itself hence it is killing alot of the sporty stuff available in other countries. I think sportivo aurion will give a new start for toyota to prove themselves that they can build a fast sedan that suits australian's. As for the name, Sportivo does sound like "sporti" or "sporty" but when the aurion sportivo comes out, you can't really call that just sporty as it will have +250kw's under the hood. I would like to see the sportivo name changed to sport as it will be way more persuasive and direct. Im guessing that the sportivo aurion s/c would be awd as well as the body structure really looks like it suits an awd system perfectly. AWD + s/c 3.5 v6, then we got some real performance figures. Im feeling like i did a right move by cancelling corolla sportivo order and waiting to order the s/c sportivo aurion. It *looks like* it suits AWD perfectly? What sort of poor foundation is that for your conclusions that it is sure to be AWD? As much as i am sure your old man has been with Toyota for eons, i still think it is a little naive to cancel your Stivo order (probably one of the few left in Aus) to wait 6-12 months for a car that may or may not be FWD (would be a tragity if it is, although i wouldnt be suprised) and could more than likely cost double the price of a Sportivo. Also, did you not say in a previous thread that you are only 18? Would a supercharged vehicle not be illegal for you to drive? I think you are basing your conclusions on somewhat insubstantial information, the only REAL evidence you have is Toyota's word that it will rival the XR6 Turbo as Australia's choice performance vehicle and as Northy said, judging by Toyota's performance vehicle track record, they have quite the challenge ahead... When i said "it looks like", i meant that the car is also suitable with awd system as the designers also said the same thing and they said that its possible to bring it out with a awd system. Have you heard these news about the sportivo aurion? If no, why brag about a comment that i make? If you were a designer and decided to put a supercharged v6 under the hood and push over 250kw's, would you put it in a front wheeled car? Yes, the normal aurion is going to be front wheel drive like the rest of the cars of toyota but, sportivo is going to be different because of the power band. And yes i am aware that the sportivo aurion will cost twice the price of a sportivo. Like i said before, if you read closely to my comments you will see that, i said that the basic aurion is going to start from 35,000 dollars est. (more than a sportivo corolla) and sportivo would probably push 50g's or even more. I don't care if im underage for a supercharged vehicle. I was infact buying a 97 Skyline GTR instead of giving order for the sportivo corolla, but i decided to let it go when i saw the odometer of the car. There's lots of p platers with 5.7L monaro's. And i still see them on the road. As long as u dont do anything stupid and not get attention, it's ok. Speaking of the performance of it and rivals, 250kw+ 3.5L supercharged v6 with 6 speed manual, awd system and some more less weight compared to the other australian performance car rivals, sounds like that it will already be ahead of the cars like xr6 turbo and commodore ss. We will wait and see. I am willing to bet my left testicle on the fact that the Aurion Sportivo will not be anything but FWD. Firstly, the Aurion is sold in Oz and no where else. Secondly, it will only be a niche model. Just to recover the costs of engineering a whole new driveline for a low volume car would put the cost of the car over $100,000 each. I would expect an LSD on the Sportivo model and some really good suspension tuning, but that is it. Getting power to the rear wheels would mean the following.... re-engineering the chassis to allow for a driveshaft, turning the engine 90 deg to make it north, south. Re-engineering the chassis to re-position the gearbox... etc, etc. Do you really think Toyota are going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars for a low production sportivo model... dont think so! The supercharged camry conecpt they did last year was a test mule for the Aurion Sportivo and that was only ever FWD. 250kw should be ok with FWD as long as it has an LSD, 6 speed, good suspension tune and good weight distribution to cut out as much understeer as possible. Still.... anything 250kw is going to be a great drive. I don't entirely agree there ... Toyota have already mentioned on a few occasions that they could manufacture the Kluger here in Australia if the numbers added up ... that means that they have the capacity to build an AWD vehicle here. Although the Camry/Aurion are a new vehicle, you can bet your bottom dollar that there is some carry-over from the current model, which shares its platform with the Kluger. I'm not saying it would be cheap, but there's nothing stopping Toyota doing a supercharged AWD Aurion for say, the price of a Commodore SS or Falcon XR8 ... Mitsubishi adapted AWD to the Magna and had it on the market for under $40G, Toyota would have less work to do, so $50G should be a doddle. I could be wrong, but if Toyota do make the supercharged car as a FWD, regardless of the do-dads, it won't sell. I totally agree. I saw the new animated video clip of the aurion s/c and it looks stunning. I love the back lights. When they say it will be awd, no doubt, i will get it. Otherwise i would get something else.

Hey guys, any news about the new supercharged aurion planning to become awd???

She's available from 3am onwards anywhere. In your dreams that is :D

that is awesome

$470 for that per year Not if your in Qld where they are $395 (once off) and you keep them for life (as in, own them, not pay for them each year). JC Ok cool! i never knew that. Damn thats much better! is NSW the only state that chargers per year? Saw MRRUNX the other day, on hoddle st, looked good.

if i had droppd my fone and if a pretty girl had found it, i would've done much more than just buying a bottle of coke :) 2 things .. firstly we should be doing this with NO expectation of any returns ....gifts/money whatever ... and secondly ... maybe she didnt think you were pretty enough .. hence just a coke ... :) i think she had a boyfriend lol. still she could've written her number on the coke label :) hehe oh well, if she did take me out to lunch or dinner, it would've been a real blind date :)

I've read the same thing about 2 years ago, couldn't believe my eyes. If it's indeed true, that is very scary. I've got kennedy's assination video as well by the famous cameraman called Zapruder. it's tragic. There is so many secret information that are held top secret about that assassination. Including information about assassinator Lee Harvey Oswald and why he got murdered before the trial. FBI, knows every detail of that assassination but hide some things secret from the public. I think, there was a book about the assassination and it apparently tells every little detail and the secrets that are getting kept private. Check this out: http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/imag...=5,420&ei=UTF-8

if i had droppd my fone and if a pretty girl had found it, i would've done much more than just buying a bottle of coke :)