1986 Aw11 Mr2 20v Blacktop Swap W/ C-56 Transmission on 2040-cars
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Up for sale is a 1986 AW11 MR2 with the 20v blacktop swap. Engine has been in the car for about 30k miles and has about 100k on it. New timing belt, water pump, and head gasket done when the swap was put in. C-56 transmission with lsd, 2nd gear syncro is worn, so if you shift hard, it will grind, but otherwise shifts fine. Fiberglass widebody style body kit has a little damage (mainly on the rear driver side quarter panel). 15x8 xxr 532 wheels. Sony xplod stereo with aux input, pioneer dash speakers and custom rear enclosures. Custom exhaust that sounds amazing: headers, 2" mandrel bent tubing, cat, and thrush welded muffler with kicked up tip. AEM air cleaner. New rear bearings, new brake rotors up front, new polyurethane bushings all around. New kyb shocks. Race seats. It is the sunroof model and comes with the matching interior sunroof cover! power locks and power windows. Flip up headlights work well. Alignment has been set to original TRD specs. AC and cruise control have been completely removed. No power steering; the steering input is awesome. Heat, fans, power mirrors, windsheild washers and wipers all work well. You can turn this into a class example with minimal work. The blacktop engine in this lightweight car is awesome. Rev is set at 9000. TVIS kicks in at 7000. The car is dead reliable and gets really great gas mileage. It was was driven to michigan and back a few months ago with zero issues. Has recently changed royal purple trans fluid, castrol synthetic, recent inspection, clean title. Also for sale locally. I reserve the right to end the auction if sold.
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Subaru to stop building Camry for Toyota in the US
Fri, 09 May 2014It was back in 2007 that Subaru of Indiana Automotive, under contract from Subaru minority shareholder Toyota, built the first Toyota Camry at its plant in Lafayette, Indiana. Rumblings of the end of that contract work have been around for a while, as Subaru talked of expanding capacity to build more units and add a line for the Impreza, and Toyota talked of moving Camry production to its Georgetown, KY plant. The news was official internally last November when SIA Executive Vice President Tom Easterday told the Louisville Courier-Journal that Camry production would end. Now, Automotive News reports that both automakers have admitted publicly that the end will come in 2016.
SIA currently has a 170,000-unit capacity devoted to the home-brand Legacy and Outback models, while a $400-million expansion increases that to 300,000 units to prepare the facility for Impreza production in two years. Freeing up the 100,000 units of production devoted to the Camry means a 400,000-unit capability, which is far more than Subaru needs at the moment, but the Toyota exit will allow it to expand any way it sees fit. Subaru has said it will absorb the workers on the Camry line and no jobs will be lost, the mayor of Lafayette saying the development could change the timetable for the expansion.
We dialed a random Swede, talked about not driving Volvos
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Toyota mini doc chronicles Tundra towing Space Shuttle Endeavor
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The Science Center would have to remove Endeavour from its transporter and place it on a lighter, non-motorized sled. That's where longtime Science Center sponsor Toyota came in. As it turns out, the automaker had to prove to the California Science Center that a Tundra could actually tow the massive shuttle, so engineers put on a little demonstration with a stock truck pulling the equivalent weight over flat ground for the same distance. Once the Science Center was satisfied that the Tundra could pull it off, the move was green lit and the rest is history. Check out the short documentary below for yourself.