The venue for the big FT-1 celebration was a but of a surprise as Toyota turned from Japan to Germany for an all-out NYIAS 2014 party inside The Biergarten of The Standard Hotel High Line.
With the futuristic, red sports car of the future gleaming under the lights, visitors enjoyed a buffet of big pretzels, bratwursts, steins of beer and Toyota-themed video games.
For the uninitiated, the new car’s name stands for Future Toyota and represents a new design philosophy for the company and sounds a note of optimism that Toyota is getting back into the affordable sports car game.
The FT-1 will never be built in mass numbers as it looks in these photos, but something similar and more affordable is very possible — even likely.
The popular speculation out there is that the FT-1 will undergo a little bit of taming and trimming and reemerge as a 21st Century Supra – the last real performance car Toyota made and a successful seller for a while in the 1990s before Toyota focused more on family rides.
There’s been no conformation of that from anyone associated with Toyota. Still, the fact that they marched it out again next to the Sauerkraut means those execs want to keep it on buyers’ minds for the coming year.
