Aurion TRD to enter 12 hour race next year

[Ext User(Dan---)]

http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0,20384,22634357-21822,00.html

After a setback, the TRD Aurion is set for bigger things.

The TRD Aurion is out of hot water over an engine failure and heading for
a new job.

Sales of the Toyota performance spearhead stalled when an early
production car; a supercharged V6; exploded. Investigation focused on
driver error and full-scale deliveries are now under way.

Toyota is also planning a major motorsport program for the TRD Aurion,
showing a competition-prepared car at the Australian International Motor
Show in readiness for a start in the 2008 Targa Tasmania.

More importantly, TRD is planning to enter the Bathurst 12-Hour race next
year in a new class for automatic-transmission cars.

Toyota says the TRD engine disaster is in the past and there is no reason
to expect a repeat. But, as a precaution, it has reduced the setting on
the engine rev limiter.

Toyota Australia sales and marketing head Dave Buttner says TRD engineers
were unable to recreate the conditions that led to the blow-up.

“We hypothesised a couple of theories,” Buttner says. “One was there may
have been foreign matter in the engine, which could have been put in
either at the production phase or when the supercharger was being made.
We were able to discount both of those tests.

“We then looked at the potential for the vehicle to over-rev, so
therefore we've decided to reduce that rev range.”

The result is a car that has the same power and torque, but cannot be
pushed into the 7000-plus danger zone for the motor.

“The fuel cut-off point on the TRD was set higher than that on the
normally aspirated Aurions. And we've now taken the counter-measure of
reflashing the ECUs back from 6800 to 6500. All the testing has been done
and we're confident it's fine.”

And Buttner says owners will feel no difference.

“It has no effect on peak power, performance or driver feel.”

Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade for
Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally, and a potential entry in
the Bathurst 12-Hour.

The Targa program is confirmed with Bates and Coral Taylor, previous
winners in a Toyota Celica, to crew.

They will aim for a solid Top-10 finish and a class win. That will also
be the objective if TRD and Toyota give the go-ahead for the 12-Hour race.



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[Ext User(Legoman)]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:02:12 -0000, Dan--- <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0,20384,22634357-21822,00.html
>
>After a setback, the TRD Aurion is set for bigger things.
>
>The TRD Aurion is out of hot water over an engine failure and heading for
>a new job.
>
>Sales of the Toyota performance spearhead stalled when an early
>production car; a supercharged V6; exploded. Investigation focused on
>driver error and full-scale deliveries are now under way.
>
>Toyota is also planning a major motorsport program for the TRD Aurion,
>showing a competition-prepared car at the Australian International Motor
>Show in readiness for a start in the 2008 Targa Tasmania.
>
>More importantly, TRD is planning to enter the Bathurst 12-Hour race next
>year in a new class for automatic-transmission cars.

It'll have to be a class where unlimited front tyres are allowed too.
Geezzz, what has motorsport come to when they have to create a class for
automatics just to get some variety. Sad.

[Ext User(DAvid)]

"Legoman" <drpm535@nospam.cn> wrote in message
news:e83th39hltberhp4pp60cmth999sah9uds@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:02:12 -0000, Dan--- <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0,20384,22634357-21822,00.html
>>
>>After a setback, the TRD Aurion is set for bigger things.
>>
>>The TRD Aurion is out of hot water over an engine failure and heading for
>>a new job.
>>
>>Sales of the Toyota performance spearhead stalled when an early
>>production car; a supercharged V6; exploded. Investigation focused on
>>driver error and full-scale deliveries are now under way.
>>
>>Toyota is also planning a major motorsport program for the TRD Aurion,
>>showing a competition-prepared car at the Australian International Motor
>>Show in readiness for a start in the 2008 Targa Tasmania.
>>
>>More importantly, TRD is planning to enter the Bathurst 12-Hour race next
>>year in a new class for automatic-transmission cars.
>
> It'll have to be a class where unlimited front tyres are allowed too.
> Geezzz, what has motorsport come to when they have to create a class for
> automatics just to get some variety. Sad.

Not sad at all. It will bring it back to what Bathurst was originally
designed to do, that was until the muscle V8's got involved and hogged the
scene to the popint it bacame V8 "boring" cars. It will be great to watch
all the FWD haters in here eat shit too. :>)
DAVO

[Ext User(GrassyNoel)]

On Oct 24, 8:10 am, Legoman <drpm...@nospam.cn> wrote:

> It'll have to be a class where unlimited front tyres are allowed too.
> Geezzz, what has motorsport come to when they have to create a class for
> automatics just to get some variety. Sad.- Hide quoted text -

Most registered cars are automatics, so that makes some kind of sense.

[Ext User(Atheist Chaplain)]

"Legoman" <drpm535@nospam.cn> wrote in message
news:e83th39hltberhp4pp60cmth999sah9uds@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:02:12 -0000, Dan--- <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0,20384,22634357-21822,00.html
>>
>>After a setback, the TRD Aurion is set for bigger things.
>>
>>The TRD Aurion is out of hot water over an engine failure and heading for
>>a new job.
>>
>>Sales of the Toyota performance spearhead stalled when an early
>>production car; a supercharged V6; exploded. Investigation focused on
>>driver error and full-scale deliveries are now under way.
>>
>>Toyota is also planning a major motorsport program for the TRD Aurion,
>>showing a competition-prepared car at the Australian International Motor
>>Show in readiness for a start in the 2008 Targa Tasmania.
>>
>>More importantly, TRD is planning to enter the Bathurst 12-Hour race next
>>year in a new class for automatic-transmission cars.
>
> It'll have to be a class where unlimited front tyres are allowed too.
> Geezzz, what has motorsport come to when they have to create a class for
> automatics just to get some variety. Sad.

It should be going into the class of "Fingerless, net backed driving gloved
cardigan owners"


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[Ext User(Marco)]

On Oct 24, 11:07 am, GrassyNoel <gera...@webace.com.au> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 8:10 am, Legoman <drpm...@nospam.cn> wrote:
>
> > It'll have to be a class where unlimited front tyres are allowed too.
> > Geezzz, what has motorsport come to when they have to create a class for
> > automatics just to get some variety. Sad.- Hide quoted text -
>
> Most registered cars are automatics, so that makes some kind of sense.

On that basis, the Commodore Omega should be taking on Bathurst, as
most Commodores sold are poverty packs...

Marco

[Ext User(Marco)]

On Oct 24, 10:51 am, "DAvid" <davi...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Not sad at all. It will bring it back to what Bathurst was originally
> designed to do, that was until the muscle V8's got involved and hogged the
> scene to the popint it bacame V8 "boring" cars. It will be great to watch
> all the FWD haters in here eat shit too. :>)
> DAVO

If only they'd televise it - it would be well worth watching. Do many
of the big name drivers get involved in it?

Marco

[Ext User(OzOne)]

You're a moron Danny Boy
from your post

"Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade
for
Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally, and a potential entry
in
the Bathurst 12-Hour."

Now hit the dictionary and try to work out what that sentence
means....or better still, ask a 3 year old!

[Ext User(GrassyNoel)]

On Oct 24, 8:02 am, Dan--- <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0,20384,22634357-21822,00.html

> Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade for
> Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally

I thought most rallies were on roads?

[Ext User(GrassyNoel)]

On Oct 24, 2:36 pm, OzOne <> wrote:
> You're a moron Danny Boy
> from your post
>
> "Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade
> for
> Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally

I thought most rallies were on roads?

[Ext User(Dan---)]

On Oct 24, 2:36 pm, OzOne <> wrote:
>> You're a moron Danny Boy
>> from your post

I didn't write the fucking article you stupid fucking dumb arsed cunt! :p


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Dan

[Ext User(OzOne)]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:14:33 -0000, Dan--- <nospam@nospam.com>
scribbled thusly:

>On Oct 24, 2:36 pm, OzOne <> wrote:
>>> You're a moron Danny Boy
>>> from your post
>
>I didn't write the fucking article you stupid fucking dumb arsed cunt! :p

You wrote the SUBJECT you stupid fucking limp dicked lapdog!

"Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade
for
Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally, and a POTENTIAL entry
in
the Bathurst 12-Hour."

Do you understand what 'POTENTIAL' means?

[Ext User(Athol)]

Marco <ignition.vess@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 11:07 am, GrassyNoel <gera...@webace.com.au> wrote:
>> On Oct 24, 8:10 am, Legoman <drpm...@nospam.cn> wrote:

>> > It'll have to be a class where unlimited front tyres are allowed too.
>> > Geezzz, what has motorsport come to when they have to create a class for
>> > automatics just to get some variety. Sad.- Hide quoted text -

>> Most registered cars are automatics, so that makes some kind of sense.

> On that basis, the Commodore Omega should be taking on Bathurst, as
> most Commodores sold are poverty packs...

Sounds fair to me. :-)

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[Ext User(Dan---)]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:44:02 +0000, Athol PCM code reading says:

> Marco <ignition.vess@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 24, 11:07 am, GrassyNoel <gera...@webace.com.au> wrote:
>>> On Oct 24, 8:10 am, Legoman <drpm...@nospam.cn> wrote:
>
>>> > It'll have to be a class where unlimited front tyres are allowed
>>> > too. Geezzz, what has motorsport come to when they have to create a
>>> > class for automatics just to get some variety. Sad.- Hide quoted
>>> > text -
>
>>> Most registered cars are automatics, so that makes some kind of sense.
>
>> On that basis, the Commodore Omega should be taking on Bathurst, as
>> most Commodores sold are poverty packs...
>
> Sounds fair to me. :-)

Cool!
Call it the Beige CARdigan class race. :-)

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Regards
Dan

[Ext User(Toby Ponsenby)]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:31:43 +1000, OzOne blathered on in :

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:14:33 -0000, Dan--- <nospam@nospam.com> scribbled
> thusly:
>
>>On Oct 24, 2:36 pm, OzOne <> wrote:
>>>> You're a moron Danny Boy
>>>> from your post
>>
>>I didn't write the fucking article you stupid fucking dumb arsed cunt!
>>:p
>
> You wrote the SUBJECT you stupid fucking limp dicked lapdog!
>
> "Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade
> for
> Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally, and a POTENTIAL entry in
> the Bathurst 12-Hour."
>
> Do you understand what 'POTENTIAL' means?

We do, we do - even though it's been replaced by more upmarket words like
vapourware, or vaporware, for that matter.


But Marketing Jerkoffs evidently think POTENTIAL means 'bullshit'.



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Toby

[Ext User(Daryl Walford)]

OzOne wrote:
> You're a moron Danny Boy
> from your post
>
> "Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade
> for
> Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally, and a potential entry
> in
> the Bathurst 12-Hour."
>
> Now hit the dictionary and try to work out what that sentence
> means....or better still, ask a 3 year old!

Wtf are you on about Oz?
Dans post was a direct quote from an article in last Fridays newspaper,
not one word of the post was Dans except his signature.


Daryl

[Ext User(Dan---)]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:24:13 +1000, Daryl Walford PCM code reading says:

>
> Wtf are you on about Oz?
> Dans post was a direct quote from an article in last Fridays newspaper,
> not one word of the post was Dans except his signature.

Unless I started doing Journalism in my sleep.
Hmm some people do sleepwalk is it possible to sleepjournolist? Be rather
scary actually I typed on the toilet seat and pissed on the computer!?.

:-)

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Dan

[Ext User(Just JT)]

"OzOne" wrote:
>>
>>I didn't write the fucking article you stupid fucking dumb arsed cunt! :p
>
> You wrote the SUBJECT you stupid fucking limp dicked lapdog!
>
> "Neal Bates at TRD Motorsport is already working on an Aurion upgrade
> for
> Targa Tasmania, Australia's leading road rally, and a POTENTIAL entry
> in
> the Bathurst 12-Hour."
>
> Do you understand what 'POTENTIAL' means?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You expect too much from a LAPDOG.

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[Ext User(Noddy)]

"DAvid" <davideo@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Not sad at all. It will bring it back to what Bathurst was originally
> designed to do, that was until the muscle V8's got involved and hogged the
> scene to the popint it bacame V8 "boring" cars. It will be great to watch
> all the FWD haters in here eat shit too. :>)

Yeah, sure it will.

I can just see the die hard motor racing fans getting excited about a Camry
understeering into every corner :)

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[Ext User(Noddy)]

<OzOne> wrote in message news:jlsth3h8ssjmhjeumvrk13j1pck4anm160@4ax.com...

> Do you understand what 'POTENTIAL' means?

An example....

Potential: Oz as world driver's champion.
Reality: He hit's 70km/h *sometimes* when in a hurry to unblock a toilet.

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