OK, so a few days after that Yaris-sports-car post, Toyota comes out and shoots me right out of the air and decides to establish:

Committee to Create Interesting Cars (C2CiC, what I call it for short)

Now this is good and all for those Toyota fans still wanting, praying and hoping for another AE86, or better yet, another Supra. What I have read/heard and seen many journalists rant (and with totally good intentions) about how sports cars can be the MOST interesting cars Toyota could create, they may totally go off on a separate tangent. They could keep fueling the fire to their Scion line of xB/xA series of ‘interesting vehicles’. Maybe they could keep trying to be one-on-the-range with all them yankee cowboys and create an even LARGER Toyota Pickup truck.
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Who needs Superbowl when you’ve got Youtube? Just one more & then I’ll let you get back to your football, I promise. Somewhere along the way, vintage racers got the reputation for not actually racing. They supposedly just parade around and make the right noises. Well, tell that to the driver of this Healey 3000. On the first 2 laps of a vintage race at Zolder, Mark Schmidt passes a whopping 29 cars! Anyone who thinks this guy isn’t pushing just needs to watch the move he pulls on the standing start. Just incredible. This is another one where the volume needs to be very loud!

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The daily grind has been tough here in The Garage the last little while, so it really cool when we come across something this funny. Over at Autoblog, they’ve found this cool South Park cd with a ton of Nineties tunes, guaranteed to make you put the pedal to the metal. This inspired the crew to compile their own fun filled lists.

Great job guys and watch back in The Garage for my own list, when I can find a few moments to collect my thoughts.

This is the way it used to be. Race entry info and supplementary regs photostated and folded, all blurry and easily stained. Fortunately, this one has been kept in great condition. Harewood Acres was one of many WW2 air fields around North America that were turned into makeshift race tracks as sports car enthusiasts discovered road racing. Harewood Acres was an important place in the early days of racing in Ontario. Drivers like Roger Pense, Peter Ryan and Bob Holbert raced there in early Porsche RSK’s.
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A group of automotive designers from Coventry University have spent the last 18 months creating a complete automotive vision. Their program not only involves development of a new, environmentally friendly sports car, but also the ground up creation of a car company.

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Not content to build a 350Z GTS, Nissan may be planning an all out assault on the sports car world with a V8 powered monster rebadged as the 450Z. Pulling a 4.5 liter V8 from the Infiniti stable, this beast could produce 400 hp. There is even talk of 4 wheel drive! Presumably this car would slot in somewhere between the 350Z and the GTR.
Story from Autocar

pic from Turboblog