Praise Toyota

Post by **Mattel** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:39 pm

Hey Guys, Congrats on such a great forum!

Now that we have a decent size online community has anyone thought of putting an "official" email through to Toyota in japan to say thanks/ask them questions/see when they are going to make a "retro" version of these cars/ get some more shots etc. there could be engineers/designers there who worked on the Tercel back in the 80's. It would be great to hear from them.. I'm sure they'd have a PR agency! who'd be interested.

Mattel

icE · Post by **icE** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:24 pm

I think thats a good idear! They're be suprised, like, people still drive those things? lol - i just don't know how to go about doing that. I don't talk japanese

Hmm maybe on toyota.com there's some contact info. What are some questions, etc, that some of us on the forums would want to put on the letter? Then someone can come and compile it all together and send it in to toyota

russkiypenguin1 · Post by **russkiypenguin1** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:59 am

I love the idea. I am a linguist, but know NOTHING in Japanese. But I'm sure Toyota has linguists in PR that would love to hear from us!

GTSSportCoupe · Post by **GTSSportCoupe** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:31 am

Hate to break it to you guys, but I've seen this tried before with far more popular Toyota's (such as the now legendary AE86 Levin/Trueno). Multiple groups and even some together have written letters and had 100s or even 1000s of people sign/participate. It seems that everything falls on dead ears. We are usually lucky if we get any sort of response at all. Toyota doesn't seem to give a sh*t about the awesome cars they made during the 80s and early/mid 90s. They are focusing their marketing through branches like 'Scion'. The cars produced by 'Scion' are what Toyota thinks the young generation and car enthusiast are looking for.

I think the best we could hope for is a retro version of the Landcruiser FJ40: <a href='http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/future/' target='_blank'>http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/future/</a>

It pisses me off and makes me sad. Toyota doesn't even have any sports cars in production right now. They stopped making even the Celica and MRS. Although there are rumors and spy photos of a new Supra. I don't know what happened to the Toyota of the 80's.

tercel4wdrules · Post by **tercel4wdrules** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:48 am

Well we can try over here in Torrance, CA. I also think they do some designing here in California and someplace else.

GTSSportCoupe · Post by **GTSSportCoupe** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:02 am

tercel4wdrules wrote: Well we can try over here in Torrance, CA. I also think they do some designing here in California and someplace else.

Never hurts to try I guess....

icE · Post by **icE** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:17 pm

The old messages almost never reach the head ppl at toyota. This is the same no matter what company you go with, no matter what you have to tell them. Just the way it goes i guess. Whatever happened to the person who made the main designs for the older 80's style toyotas? It'd be interesting to have him on this forum lol

sacwac · Post by **sacwac** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:25 pm

It might be a bad idea... Imagine what they will say when they find the FACTORY TOYOTA MANUAL for download!!

I imagine they would do nothing. I mean, if the Toyota dealer (Stevens Creek Toyota) tells me to get lost when I go asking for parts...

hornett22 · Post by **hornett22** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:41 am

there is a guy somewhere on the net with a heathy amount of signatures on a petetion to get toyota to sell solid axle trucks here again.they do not care.even though they would sell

russkiypenguin1 · Post by **russkiypenguin1** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:59 am

I know it's a very basic concept, but it's pretty useful to just get a functional email addy from a person in a company. If they have a predictable email name then you might be able to guess the email address of some head honchos.