Tokyo Auto Salon 2024

[carguy420]

Mazda 3 turbo one big step closer to Australia with Spirit Racing hot hatch, MX-5 concepts

Mazda is returning to the performance-car market with two cars – including a Mazda 3 hot hatch that may be powered by a turbocharged engine.

www.drive.com.au

Don't know if this is legit or just BS, but they say the MSR Mazda 3 will get a new 2.5L turbo that's not the current 2.5T.

And with the MSR Miata they will apparently try to reach the same horsepower as their biofuel Miata that they are racing in Super Taikyu, which has around 200 hp.

 

[qtb007]

Dare I say......this 1.6T L4 with new 8AT sounds and feels better than their flagship V35A + 10AT

It is in a chassis that weighs half as much and is in a platform that people are OK with considerable shock to the driver and shift shock. Plus, it's an actual motorsport engine. It wasn't designed to go into mainstream cars. They could tune the V35 and 10AT to drive that way in an LS. Very few people would want it because that isn't the kind of car it is.

 

[sl0519]

It is in a chassis that weighs half as much and is in a platform that people are OK with considerable shock to the driver and shift shock. Plus, it's an actual motorsport engine. It wasn't designed to go into mainstream cars. They could tune the V35 and 10AT to drive that way in an LS. Very few people would want it because that isn't the kind of car it is.

I was talking mainly its overall feel to be much like the B58 + ZF8 combo, particularly the high revving turbo engine and short ratio gearing.
The LS shifted very lazy and sounded like a diesel truck.

 

[carguy420]

「ロータリーエンジン開発チーム再結成」マツダ毛籠社長がサプライズ公表…東京オートサロン2024 | レスポンス（Response.jp）

マツダの毛籠勝弘社長は1月12日の東京オートサロン2024でのプレスカンファレンスでロータリーエンジン開発チームを約6年ぶりに再結成するとサプライズ発表した。

s.response.jp

Mazda is bringing back their rotary engine development team to develop the powertrain for the Iconic SP.

 

[Ian Schmidt]

I was talking mainly its overall feel to be much like the B58 + ZF8 combo, particularly the high revving turbo engine and short ratio gearing.
The LS shifted very lazy and sounded like a diesel truck.

The LS has always had lazy shifting (aside from the more aggressive 1->2 in the 2021+), but I've never heard a diesel truck that sounds like the V35A.

 

[carguy420]

2024 Subaru WRX S4 STI Sport# launched in Japan - same power; suspension, design tweaks; 500 units - paultan.org

Even though Subaru has no plans to offer an STI variant of the latest WRX, the company is still happy to apply the ‘Subaru Tecnica International’ branding to its products. The latest was showcased at …

paultan.org

I like how Subaru is pretending this pile is something really special lol, the price is 6.237 million yen which is almost 1 million yen more expensive than a Japanese-spec GR Corolla (5.25 million yen) which has the carbon fiber roof, forged BBS wheels, hood bulge with vents and Torsen LSDs as standard, and if you for some reason want to buy this fugly, underpowered and overpriced thing, you can only get this car through their lottery system. Previously, Subaru only does this lottery system for the special editions of their real STI models that actually get some noticeable performance upgrades to the engine, chassis, brakes, aero and suspension. Subaru's standards really keeps sliding lower and lower with each passing year.

 

[qtb007]

2024 Subaru WRX S4 STI Sport# launched in Japan - same power; suspension, design tweaks; 500 units - paultan.org

Even though Subaru has no plans to offer an STI variant of the latest WRX, the company is still happy to apply the ‘Subaru Tecnica International’ branding to its products. The latest was showcased at …

paultan.org

I like how Subaru is pretending this pile is something really special lol, the price is 6.237 million yen which is almost 1 million yen more expensive than a Japanese-spec GR Corolla (5.25 million yen) which has the carbon fiber roof, forged BBS wheels, hood bulge with vents and Torsen LSDs as standard, and if you for some reason want to buy this fugly, underpowered and overpriced thing, you can only get this car through their lottery system. Previously, Subaru only does this lottery system for the special editions of their real STI models that actually get some noticeable performance upgrades to the engine, chassis, brakes, aero and suspension.Subaru's standards really keeps sliding lower and lower with each passing year.

I'm reading on the Subaru forums from someone that has pretty good connections at SOA. This guy has mentioned a few times that he's heard that Subaru is starving the WRX and it will die like the STI did. They'll give it just enough special editions and upgrades to not be a total sales flop for this generation, but we won't see the return of a WRX with LSDs, more power, or a transmission that can handle more torque.

 

[carguy420]

I'm reading on the Subaru forums from someone that has pretty good connections at SOA. This guy has mentioned a few times that he's heard that Subaru is starving the WRX and it will die like the STI did. They'll give it just enough special editions and upgrades to not be a total sales flop for this generation, but we won't see the return of a WRX with LSDs, more power, or a transmission that can handle more torque.

At this point, I'd be more surprised if the WRX doesn't also die in such a sad and lame way, based on the direction that Subaru has been heading towards. Their ARA WRX rally car and 24 hours of Nurburgring WRX endurance racer are both so highly modified that they barely represent the WRX that one can buy off the showroom floor, and with those “special editions” it's all just giving their fans false hope to keep them within the Subaru brand as long as they possibly can, until the day Subaru completely kills off the WRX.

 

[Levi]

Worse is Subaru somehow killed off the XV Crosstreck.

 

[qtb007]

Worse is Subaru somehow killed off the XV Crosstreck.

Crosstrek is alive and well clogging up the left lanes in the US.

 

[Levi]

Crosstrek is alive and well clogging up the left lanes in the US.

That is exactly the Crosstreck problem I am pointing to. They yet could not give it the motor it needs.

 

[Gecko]

Anyone know anything about this Lexus sketch/concept?

 

[F1 Silver Arrows]

Anyone know anything about this Lexus sketch/concept?View attachment 8628

This is some weird hybrid between the LF-SA and the LBX.

 

[Gor134]

Crosstrek is alive and well clogging up the left lanes in the US.

omg this is so true SO MANY left lane hoggers in Crosstreks.

 

[Motor]