Toyota In Nascar?

[jboat]

I was just reading an article about cheating in Nascar and saw that Toyota is making their debut in Nascar...

I don't care for Nascar at all, just found it funny that a Japanese manufacturer is getting involved. I hope they kick ass...

I wonder how Billy Bob and Cletus feel about it?...

Badass car though...

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/images/threads/000/193/387/2973258-nascar_camry.jpg

[Eisernkreuz]

Camry may be Toyota's best-selling car in America, but it's not its best-selling vehicle between Louisiana and Maryland, ie. where it counts in Nascar :laughing

[SerottaK]

Dich Childress has already made complaints that Toyota will put a bunch of money/tech into nascar and dominate the sport. It will be nice to see the american manufactures have to compete. Nascar was their bread and butter that alowed them to keep producing such shitty cars. I think the first place where Toyota will dominate is on the road coarse.

[2nsane]

I wonder if those crazy azz toyota techs are going to bump up the rev lim on those engines to 12k? god knows they can build a F1 engine.

[wilit]

Originally posted by 2nsane
I wonder if those crazy azz toyota techs are going to bump up the rev lim on those engines to 12k? god knows they can build a F1 engine.

Too bad they can't build a chassis to go with it. :laughing

[Zerox]

C'mon now, everybody knows the NASCAR crowd is a forward-thinking, cultured crowd. Just read about the warm reception Toyota received in 2004 when they started racing in NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series

http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/stories/trdcraftsman/page1.html

Dissention rose high enough that Nextel Cup driver Jimmy Spencer was quoted as saying, “Those (SOBs) bombed Pearl Harbor, don’t forget.

:laughing

[jboat]

I guess it's obvious how the Nascar crowd feels. Here are the results of a poll about it on nascar.com

POLL RESULTS
What do you think of Toyota's decision to go Nextel Cup racing in 2007?

I like it 38248 32%
I don't like it 54842 45%
Don't care either way 27648 23%
TOTAL 120738 Votes

[TheRobSJ]

Originally posted by jboat
Badass car though...

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/images/threads/000/193/387/2973258-nascar_camry.jpg

Yeah. That's exactly like the Camry we can all go down to a dealer and buy right now I'm sure.



Be interesting to see if that Camry even sees the green flag Sunday. Last I read with all the crew chiefs getting caught cheating, suspended, and fined...Waltrip's Camry is under further investigation. Something about having sent a part from his car to NASCAR's offices for inspection.

[auntiebling]

Originally posted by Eisernkreuz
Camry may be Toyota's best-selling car in America, but it's not its best-selling vehicle between Louisiana and Maryland, ie. where it counts in Nascar :laughing

which is a pretty good reason to get into nascar

Originally posted by TheRobSJ
Yeah. That's exactly like the Camry we can all go down to a dealer and buy right now I'm sure.

same thing with ford, chevy, dodge... nascar is the WWF of motorsports

[Cali]

Shouldn't the cars in Nascar represent the ones we see on the road? I don't see a Camry in that pic. Don't see anything on the street that looks like anything in Nascar.

[BlacKat]

yea, just like the motogp bikes that we can buy at the dealership.

[bagman]

Are not all NASCARS built by the same manufacture in North Carolina?

[stan23]

Originally posted by leupold18
Shouldn't the cars in Nascar represent the ones we see on the road? I don't see a Camry in that pic. Don't see anything on the street that looks like anything in Nascar.

Here's a chevy monte carlo for comparison

http://www.auto123.com/ArtImages/45665/Chevrolet-Nascar-Monte-Carlo-SS-03.jpg

http://images.consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/autoreview/400x266/2000-05-chevrolet-monte-carlo-00123261990001.jpg

Which one is the Nascar version :confused :confused

[Cali]

Originally posted by BlacKat
yea, just like the motogp bikes that we can buy at the dealership.

But the bikes at the dealership aren't called the RC211V or M1 or anything like that. They're not trying to make it sound like what we are able to get. And what is stock about stock cars???

[jbt56]

I used to be a big NASCAR fan. Growing up, my heroes were Richard Petty, David Pearson, etc. Over the past 10 years, as the popularity grew, my interest faded. Now that all the cars are on the same chassis, and use the same body, I have totally lost interest. In the beginning, it was as much about the car as the driver. That's why manufacturers got into it. Now it's only about entertainment, and corporate $$. Also, rather than being farmers and mechanics, the drivers are all professional corporate spokesmen now, who get paid stupid $$, just like ball players.

Intersting (?) tidbit... Toyota actually had to design, for the first time ever, a pushrod V8 to go racing with. All their F1 experience means almost nothing with NASCAR.

BTW, no one says MotoGP bikes are "stock" bikes. I like visiting dealers and asking to see the rear-drive, V8-engine Montes and Taurus'. You get great expressions from the salesmen!:teeth

[Mike95060]

Originally posted by antibling nascar is the WWF of motorsports

both are pretty well scripted.... ;)


"Shake and Bake!"

[pepperell]

Why is the back of the car cut up so high above the rear wheel?

[auntiebling]

^^^^ it's hard to make a brick aerodynamic

[Lil Los]

"they took r' jubs!!!"

[Sidewalk]

Originally posted by SerottaK
Dich Childress has already made complaints that Toyota will put a bunch of money/tech into nascar and dominate the sport. Yep, high tech carburators and push rods :laughing

If NASCAR actually was really based on stock cars, I would be much more interested. But since they are about as stock as a Pro-Stock car in drag racing...

Compare that to the R1 John Mcguinness rides at the Isle of Mann...