{"id":299047,"date":"2010-02-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/09\/video-toyotas-jim-lentz-confirms-ft-86-not-supra-coming-to-a\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:00:00","slug":"video-toyotas-jim-lentz-confirms-ft-86-not-supra-coming-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299047","title":{"rendered":"Video: Toyota’s Jim Lentz confirms FT-86 (not Supra) coming to America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toyota FT-86 Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nWe’re used to seeing Digg boosting our stories, but once in a while the popular user-voted news site generates some original content of its own. This time, a Digg correspondent got 30 minutes of camera time with Jim Lentz, who, as President and COO of Toyota<\/a> Motor Sales USA, very well might be the busiest man in America right now. Lentz fielded a series of questions – mostly related to the recall<\/a> – submitted by users and voted (or Dugg) into the list. But one of them had little to do with the recall at all; it had to do with sportscars.<\/p>\n

The question was whether Toyota had any plans, after years without any real sportscar offerings in North America, to bring back the Supra or offer a new affordable sportscar. Lentz’s answer, as you can see in the video segment after the jump<\/a>, was enlightening. The short of it was that the Supra won’t be brought back to these shores, but the FT-86<\/a> will. <\/p>\n

From that we can surmise a few things. First of all, the final production version of the concept will not be called the Supra. Secondly, the FT-86 – or whatever it’s called when it comes to market – will be considerably more affordable than the Supra was. And finally, the FT-86 will be coming to North America. So there you have it. But don’t take our word for it – we’ve posted the pertinent excerpt after the jump<\/a>, along with the full 28-minute video below it.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Tokyo 2009: Toyota FT-86 Concept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Digg via FT86club.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Coupe, Videos, Toyota Toyota FT-86 Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery We’re used to seeing Digg boosting our stories, but once in a while the popular user-voted news site generates some original content of its own. This time, a Digg correspondent got 30 minutes of camera time with Jim Lentz, who, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}