How can you possibly not like the look of the TRD Aurion?
February 7, 2008 by Anthony Crawford
Three writers at Car Advice including myself have written reviews on Toyota’s controversial TRD Aurion and I was the only to sing the car’s praises.
It’s probably an age thing. I’m over 40 and Paul and Alborz are under 30. That must be it.
241 supercharged kilowatts is a lot of juice to be flowing to the front wheels. Torque Steer. Yes, of course there’s a little torque steer, but it’s entirely manageable and quite a non-event. Just hold the steering wheel properly, with both hands, as you should be and there’s no drama whatsoever.
And if you need to jump on the right pedal and give it a boot full, you’ll be rewarded with ‘blast off’ style acceleration that keeps on going and going, thanks to those 400 Newton metres peaking at a respectable 4000rpm.
Normally I would be physically ill if I had to live with red leather seats in a daily ride, but this colour trim in a black TRD, is stunning.
But before I end up writing another 1500 word review on the TRD, which I have no intention of doing, I wanted to share with you, a few photos of the car which I had shoved in a desktop file and forgotten about.
You can find our reviews below:
- TRD Aurion 3500S Road Test (Paul)
- TRD Aurion 3500SL Road Test (Alborz)
- TRD Aurion 3500SL Review (Tony)
Anthony Crawford
Print it: 
yes Dingo,
ah ha, ah ha
get over yourself
Bret – conduct some research on the era and stop making a fool out of yourself. I can not believe some individuals dispute factual events and then say ‘ i have extensive knowledge’.
You will find all the information you need under wikipedia
The model raced was the 2.6 (straight 6) R32 by Gibbs (Fred) Racing and received 2 x weight penalties of 100kg each in 1991 and a turbo pop off valve in 1992. You will also learn that the Sierra was infact eventually restricted to a single turbo instead of it’s original 2.
Oh yeah, go to http://www.awesometickets.net (v8 supercars) and under the history banner it states that the turbocharged RS500 Ford Sierra’s and Nissan GTR Skylines were banned under the new laws put in place.
If you want more answers go to Answers.com v8 supercars and the same is mentioned aswell but furthers on a bit more by stating that the 5.0 V8 M3 BMW’s were permitted to compete against the Ozzie locals but the German manufacture decided to withdraw because they didn’t recieve the same concessions that Holden and Ford did.
see… isn’t it great the information one can teach themselves by just conducting a few minutes time of research on a particular topic. But haa – i guess you need not to bother because you have have extensive knowledge …right !
Cheers
Joel, I think people think you are Dingo/Mikka because he used to type “But haa…” exactly the same way you do. Dunno.
Well, I don’t mean just because of that, other similarities too.
Joel, i really want to know who this Dingo fella was. Give me some posts were i dig him up and i’ll have a checkas for myself. Curious !
Sorry, meant to put Watto not my own name. Forgive me, still having my first cuppa for the day. Takes a while to kick in. Anyay, give me some post so i check out Dingo.
Dingo posted on….
caradvice.com.au/9627/toyota-to-unveil-trd-hilux-in-brisbane/
I’m not saying you are that person, just suggesting why others may think so. Have a look back at pretty much any Toyota blog of the last 2 months and you’ll find plenty of Dingos posts.
Dingo is on blogs.drive.com.au now,
OK – i found some of his posts and i can kinda see were some of you people are coming from about the similarities. To be perfectly honest, Dingo is raw and to the point in abrupt ways but i will say he isn’t far from the point in many of his comments. Raw – yes, Wrong – not really.
The TRD Hilux was certainly a drawn out issue (and i thought this was getting that way) but i will admit all posters made strong points. Being abrupt is not the best way of getting points across but it doesn’t necessarily mean the person is wrong in what they are saying while Dingo was certainly not alone in being rather forceful in the Hilux article. I believe each and every poster were as bad as each other so i wouldn’t be over critical towards him.
In summary, i believe some posters have taken a dislike to the character because he is rather straight to the issue without bashing about the bush – i can respect that is some people. And don’t say i am Dingo because i have nothing to do with the Mines (or Rio Tinto for that matter) but admittedly, i don’t mind Toyota myself though.
Ok i give up, its me and i,m baaaack an luvn it.
ha ha ha antispammer was lexus ha ha ha
Were you been Dingo….like we miss you heaps?
Seems like we miss all three of you? It is you Dingo as even you touched on that yourself! Ha Ha Ha LOL
Better not be you Dingo……
Cripes….how many in this pack Dingo? No AKA there bud as seems like a mixture.
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HSMT 89, try your dealer. Your car dealer, mon.