NEW TOYOTA PRESIDENT Akio Toyoda announced this week that the world’s biggest carmaker will fast-track development of its upcoming lightweight entry-level RWD sports car.

Speaking at the 2009 Center for Automotive Research Conference, Mr Toyoda - an avid performance car enthusiast - said he personally wanted to see more driving fun injected into Toyota’s model line-up.
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The jointly-developed Toyota/Subaru RWD coupe is undoubtedly one of the more hotly-anticipated new releases on the horizon, but now it seems that those hanging out for a budget tyre-burner from Toyota may have to wait a little longer yet.

Yep, it looks like the world’s slowly capsizing economy will be putting the brakes on yet another [...]

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard any updates on Toyota’s upcoming low-cost RWD sports coupe, but now it seems that development of the much-vaunted ‘AE86 successor’ has hit a bit of a speed bump thanks to the Subaru-derived platform it’s being built on.

Toyota engineers involved in the project have allegedly described the Liberty/Legacy-based suspension [...]

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Last time we told you about Nissan’s upcoming cheap RWD sports car, the general consensus was that it would be powered by either a naturally-aspirated or turbocharged motor. Now, it seems that the small coupe might get its motivation from a more environmentally-friendly source: a petrol-electric hybrid powerplant.

Junichi Endo, Nissan’s senior vice president of global [...]

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We’ve seen the spy photos and only recently the official renderings- we’ve even seen the actual production car…but this time its official. Hyundai have taken the wraps off their much anticipated Concept Genesis Coupe at the LA Motor Show and to be honest much like the pictures we showed you last week its more of [...]

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Thanks to a Tiburon Forum member, we get to see the new RWD Hyundai Coupe undisguised and sitting proudly next to its anticipated North American competitor the Ford Mustang. The pic was apparently taken at a market research event earlier this year. Hyundai appears to have done a reasonable job on the styling which will [...]

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There has been much recent speculation concerning the upcoming Hyundai RWD Coupe/Tiburon. We don’t know what it will be called but we do know that it is RWD (Hyundai have confirmed this) and that it will borrow the Genesis sedans RWD platform.

The image you see above is believed to be an “official” rendering of the [...]

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