Comments on: Toyota Australia axes TRD brand

By: bigkiwi

bigkiwi — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:14:28 +0000

I have just purchased one of these and was pleasantly surpised. I have no problems with torque steer and have had the car slightly modified producing 295KW and have no worries being beside a Typhoon or Clubby. Don’t knock the car until you have driven it. What I like is you don’t see to many around unlike the HSV & FPV. Every Tom, Dick & Harry has one. Don’t get me wrong, the ford and holden make great looking cars and I do like them a lot, the diferrence is I am not biase. The TRD was never going to compete against the FPV or HSV and that does not make the TRD a bad car.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:40:22 +0000

Good Riddance to a half baked insult thrust upon the Australian car buying public.. Mountains of marketing dollars didn’t fool anyone – except “Sour Grapes”.

“Sour Grapes” A few words of advice; You need to get out of your TuRD before it’s value goes the same way as the unloved Magna’s and 380′s. Your car is very ordinary and will never be a collectable. You were brave but foolish.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:29:14 +0000

As others have said, a FWD TRD Aurion with that much power is a waste of time. If it were AWD I think sales would have been muuuuuch higher.

As for the TRD Hilux, it’s a very specific target market and you really can’t expect it to keep on selling like hotcakes.

They should have brought back Celica GT4!!!

By: bbb

bbb — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:46:17 +0000

yeh, not the best market to try against, but they’re a damn good car company, just look at the figures. I think a TRD rav or corolla would have been better. better luck next time

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:51:25 +0000

Obviously prices had to be kept as low as possible with a high performance brand and that’s why they chose the locally produced Aurion and the Thai Hilux (with which we have a free trade agreement with).
The suggestion of a Yaris or Corolla TRD is pure nonsense and would have seen ridiculous price inflations which would have resulted in this inevitable demise in such unfavourable economic conditions for Australian firms.
This was purely an economic-based decision so get over that junk about crap cars and Ford rules or Holden rules.

By: Dont Be Sour Grapes

Dont Be Sour Grapes — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:26:14 +0000

“Joe Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

BTW my G6ETurbo is going like a dream and whenever I see an Aurion TRD(which isn’t very often) the envious looks that my car gets from the TRD drivers just reassures me that I made the right decision and so did Ford with the FG. ”

The only look I will give Ford drivers is one of pity, knowing that in 5 years their car will be a heap of junk while my car is still going fine.

By: JAMIE WHINCUP IS A LEGEND

JAMIE WHINCUP IS A LEGEND — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:49:17 +0000

That TeRD, hmmmmmmmm warm fuzzy feeling cardigan needed a dryclean, the thing is just a dirty old whitegood with no character, maybe Toyoda should stick to what they know best, CLEVER Advertising For Ageing Masses and the young suckers who don’t know any better.

Go Ford, way better than Toyboat!!!!

By: Ben H

Ben H — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:02:56 +0000

About time,I recently drove an Aurion TRD and the only item missing from TRD is the letter U. Best describes the car.

By: AlphaG

AlphaG — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:29:51 +0000

It is very interesting Toyota has made dud sports cars whilst Nissan has built probably the best price for performance cars out there, and have now once again wiped the floor with Porsche, GM, Ford and all the other bogan makers out there. Why has Nissan been so successful building cult cars whilst Toyota has been sa bad at it.

Even Mazda with its rotary cars has done significantly better.

Maybe it is because the cars Nissan and Mazda produced were built to be sports cars whlist Toyota was dressing up mutton to be lamb but never understood the real game it was trying to play

By: Naughtyius Maximus

Naughtyius Maximus — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:55:02 +0000

Everything has a time and a season……