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Originally Posted by Blokatos
Talking in European terms, 1200 kgs is a threshold for a sports car to be considered lightweight although this may sound (and actually be) a generalization...
The new Lotus Evora weighs around 1350 kgs and has a 280 hp N/A 3.5 V6. It is considered quite lardy. The fact that Lotus has been producing very light sports cars could play a role into this but doesn't change people's perception.
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As with everyone who brings up cars such as lotus, you have to keep the price range in perspective.
A Lotus is expensive, well, because its a lotus, but also because of the materials used in building the cars.
The FT is going to be a low $20k car. We're not going to see any carbon-fiber body panels, etc. being put on this car to lower the weight.
That being said, for a $20k FR car with its dimensions, I still think they can keep the weight ~2600, without going over the 2750 benchmark.
I think I've seen a few people say they would be surprised if it got lower than 2900. Thats just insane. There's keeping your expectations low so as to not get burned with the real product and then there's just insanity. If this car weighs in >2800lbs I will not only be shocked but also questioning Toyota's ability to engineer a wheel, let alone a car.