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Toyota officials are working hard to put together a full NASCAR package for the 2004 season and are trying to sign a top-name team to be the company's flagship operation. Among the teams being linked by unofficial reports to Toyota are Dale Earnhardt Inc., Bill Davis Racing and Penske South. Penske is the most logical pick, since Roger Penske is one of the country's largest Toyota dealers, but Penske is widely expected to announce a switch from Ford to Dodge within the next few weeks.

Toyota executives have been talking with NASCAR officials about getting into this sport, and NASCAR officials have said that they would like to see a factory Toyota Truck run
ning next
February at Daytona. That time frame, however, may be too short. It took Dodge more than a year to set up its Winston Cup program after spending five years learning the NASCAR ropes on the Truck tour.

So most people in the Winston Cup garage are expecting to see a Toyota Truck at Daytona in the spring of 2004. The big question is, will Toyota also have a Winston Cup program in place by then, and with whom? Toyota is expected to sidestep the Busch tour until it establishes itself in the other two series.

Mike Brown, general manager for Bill Davis, says reports that the team is looking at a Toyota Truck program are considerably overblown, that the High Point team is simply providing some guidance for another unnamed operation. Toyota will have to create a 350 V-8 engine to NASCAR specs.


http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/sports/MGB8194VP6D.html


This will be interesting.
 
Look for the Travis-Carter team switching to Toyota as well. There driver in the 66 car (can't spell his name and won't even try) might be bringing sponorship from Toyota to the car if he does a good job in the last two races he is racing in this year.
 
I'd say you might see a Toyota Truck in 2004, but I doubt Toyota would move into Cup until the following year.
 
that could be hard to spell for some people

im in agreement with RPM on this one....i think youd see them in the truck series first...kinda like Dodge did.

just jumping into WC right off the bad might be a bad idea.
 
well some people are worse at spelling than others

im horrible at spelling and i hate it when people make fun of me about it.
 
i would love to see toyota in trucks. just the other day my unle and i were talking about how cool it would be if toyota started racing.
 
Nice to see that another vehicle brand will be in racing...
 
By the time Nascar is done with it, the Toyota will look and run just like a Ford, GM product or Dodge. Matters little what anyone brings anymore. Since "sell on Monday" pretty much only applies to sponsors products and advertising space on the networks I am surprised that they are even interested.

Kel
 
I can see a lot of bigoted people having a huge problem with this. I didn't realize how many truly bigoted people there were out there until I went to Martinsville last year. I can't see much problem with it.
 
Got that right 4x.

NASCAR will never blossom if it's fan base stays the way it is.
 
Originally posted by 4xchampncountin
I can see a lot of bigoted people having a huge problem with this. I didn't realize how many truly bigoted people there were out there until I went to Martinsville last year. I can't see much problem with it.
Click to expand...

Its not just racing or nascar either bigotry still exist in alot of things all over the world. It didn't just go away in the 70s and 80s.
 
Hungry? Eat your foriegn car.

While I have no problem with Toyota entering ANY racing series, the idea that it is one of the largest selling brands of cars in America to me is sickening. To me it's economics 101, to keep America strong buy American.

I have no problem with Fukuyama entering nascar racing. Just doesn't matter to me one way or the other.

But I do have a problem with folks displaying cheap arrs American flags that were probably made in China under slave-like conditions on thier Japanese cars while displaying bumper stickers calling for continued election of folks who have sold their souls to big biz while forgetting the working poor of our own country.

It absolutely sickens me when I see an American flag with a made in China sticker on it. I saw that wonderful display at NHIS and I had to shake my head knowing that in all likelyhood those little flags that got passed out were foreign made.

It absolutely sickens me that during one of the worst economic slowdowns in the history of America....unemployment at an 8 year high with more layoffs expected in the 4th quarter...that our Prez after letting one madman slip away thru the foothills, has turned his focus to another madman his father let slip away.

But that's ok, while war may not be healthy for children and other living things, it has proven thru-out the course of history to do wonders for the economy.

Toyota in nascar? Doesn't bother me at all. Maybe it will wake just a few folks up to just how silly it is drive a foriegn car while people in our own nation go hungry.
 
"economics 101, to keep America strong buy American."

Nicely said...and like I said it is nice to see another brand in the mix...
 
Very well said, 71. I drive a Ford, but if I bought a new American-made car, it would probably be a BMW made in South Carolina, or a Mercedes made in Alabama. I really don't know how much of my T-Bird was made/assembled in the US.
-Rich
 
Ok someone please name one automobile companys that only makes cars in america ????

I dont call a company that 80% of there cars are made in another country, an american car company ( I am talking about ford).
 
Smack,
It's mostly a joke my dad and I have, relating to our unwillingness to drive foreign cars. Nothing too serious. ;)
-Rich
 
Smack, there are only 3 in existance right now that can legally according to the American Automobile Labeling Act claim to be entirely American made, they are Lincoln, Oldsmobile and Saturn.

There are several models of each of the big 3 that are greater than 75% content and assembly in USA, this according to "Made In the USA 5th edition.

Ford has Taurus (tho some models assembled in Mexico), and Mustang

Chevy has the Cavalier and Corvette

Pontiac has the Bonneville

You can use the VIN number to tell the assembly location, Only 1 and 4 as the first digit is totally American assembled
J is Japan
3 is Mexico
2 is Canada...most Canadian made are also Union made and adhere to the same strict standards that USA assembly plants must meet.

Kel
 
the point I am makeing is most car companys have production plants in other countrys and most of the time sell more of there cars then companys that are based in that country. Yet americans are only supose to buy american??? I dont see anyone complaining when our companies make money from citizens in other countries...
 
I know others probably won't agree with this but I think that NASCAR should have one body template. Then all the new manufacturers would have to do is make an engine that is good and put their decals on the car. I think we would see alot more makes come into NASCAR.
 
Urgggh! Smack, you are dead on!

If anyone wants to argue the problems our "economy" faces or the globalization of resources, or how in the world you can tie this "Toyota to Nascar" crap to the "de-Americanization" of our lifestyle, please meet me in the "Chit Chat Forum".

Bring your Econ degree, I'll bring mine....
 
so lap3 you think its ok to only buy usa products and its also ok for american companys to go to other countries and sell products ???
 
does it relly matter? i dont give a damn it chevy sells in russia. dont make me a dime. i just dont like jap car just usa and greman.
 
so if you had it your way americans would only buy american and no companies from other countries should be able to sell here but companies for our country selling in other countries dont bother you at all ???
 
Again, not going to get into the "what makes the world go 'round" love fest. But there's WAY more to it than 'buy American" and what-not... Our economy is tied to sooo much more than that.
 
If you only want to buy American made stuff, your not going to find very much.
 
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