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I want one.....I probably can't afford one....but I want it.

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Looks like a fun summer ride... Oh wait! That's what a VMax is for!

I earned my way through school by fixing cars (mostly Saabs) and can certainly appreciate the sports ride concept. Reading through the article, I was a little confused with the statement that Yamaha made about bringing the feel of a motorcycle to a car... I think the can-ams are already doing that...


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There's probably a variation of the Vmax engine under the hood for something that size haha
 
Here's some info on the engineering of Yamaha being used by Toyota for their first prestige sports car, the Toyota 2000 GT from the mid-1960's as used by James Bond, or at least his Japanese Secret Service partner in the movies. Only a few hundred were built and they are worth seven figures today. When they were released in the late 1960's they cost more than an XK-E! http://www.vmaxforum.net/showthread.php?t=19624&page=4&highlight=toyota

Auction results: http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...le-1967-toyota-2000-gt-sells-for-1-15-million Check this article out for some very interesting cars going to auction. For the price of the Toyota 2000 GT, you could almost buy a James "Shunt" Hunt McLaren Formula 1 car from 1977!

Another interesting car is one of the Ford concept cars from the 1960's when they were trying to decide on whether to build a mid-engine sports car for the mass-market, but they went w/the design which Lee Iacocca brought to market as the Mustang as a 1964-1/2 model, still the largest selling car of all time for one model year. The proposed mid-engine car would have used a German Ford V-4 from the Taunus (sounds like Taurus, eh?) http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/03/20/cars-of-futures-past-ford-mustang-i/ This article describes the Mustang 1 effort as purely a 'halo car' w/no possibility of actual production, designed to demonstrate the direction Ford could take and to show-off its engineering prowess. The above article shows info that Ford used computer finite-element analysis for designing the car, the first time they used the (at the time) far-out technology. I have pictures of this car circulating Watkins Glen in the F-1 race weekend I took when the car showed-up there. It was driven by Dan Gurney on demonstration laps one of which I have a track picture.
 
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