{"id":111315,"date":"2014-11-25T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=111315"},"modified":"2014-11-25T08:05:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:05:47","slug":"toyota-rules-out-gt86-turbo-and-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2014\/11\/25\/toyota-rules-out-gt86-turbo-and-convertible\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Rules Out GT86 Turbo and Convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/06\/road-test-toyota-gt86-015.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/06\/road-test-toyota-gt86-015-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"Hybrid Toyota GT86 Deemed Unlikely\" title=\"Hybrid Toyota GT86 Deemed Unlikely\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-99792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/road-test-toyota-gt86-015-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/road-test-toyota-gt86-015-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/road-test-toyota-gt86-015-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/road-test-toyota-gt86-015-1068x708.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/road-test-toyota-gt86-015.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toyota has once again shot down any possibility of a Toyota GT86 or Scion FR-S convertible or turbocharged variant hitting the market.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking with WardsAuto at the Los Angeles Auto Show 2014, Scion\u2019s senior vice president Doug Murtha revealed that despite the company\u2019s best attempts to make a convertible work, a legitimate business case could not be made. According to Murtha, \u201con the convertible we went down swinging\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we were pretty aggressive on our (submitted plan), but we looked at what we would have conceivably lost on the product and said, \u2018We\u2019re not going to even push it further\u2019, Murtha added. \u201cNobody was more disappointed than we were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the much talked about turbocharged variant, Murtha shot down any possibility of such a car reaching the marketing confirming that despite demands for such a car, it is not coming.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wardsauto.com\/vehicles-technology\/scion-fr-s-convertible-turbo-engine-not-happening?NL=WAW-08&#038;Issue=WAW-08_20141124_WAW-08_3&#038;sfvc4enews=42&#038;cl=article_3&#038;YM_RID=CPENT000000084822&#038;YM_MID=304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wards Auto<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota has once again shot down any possibility of a Toyota GT86 or Scion FR-S convertible or turbocharged variant hitting the market. While speaking with WardsAuto at the Los Angeles Auto Show 2014, Scion\u2019s senior vice president Doug Murtha revealed that despite the company\u2019s best attempts to make a convertible work, a legitimate business case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":99792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10,23375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}