C-pillar

[praetorian]

Anyone here (dealers, etc.) know if that c-pillar is going to get scaled down?

They can't be serious about it. I mean, what's the point of it? Tell me it's just some design school schwag.

Cheers,
prat

 

[madams557]

yep, there was an article that said that the wide c-pillar would not make it to production.

 

[praetorian]

yep, there was an article that said that the wide c-pillar would not make it to production.

Source?

Thanks,
prat

 

[madams557]

I'll look for it.

 

[madams557]

Future Ride: Toyota FJ Cruiser
Future, go-anywhere SUV revealed at the Detroit auto show

By Todd Lassa
Truck Trend, April 2003

Toyota's production retro-FJ will be truer to the original, with a conventional backlight in the hatch, small rear-quarter windows that wrap from the back to the sides, and a conventionally thin C-pillar with glass filling in the remaining space. Colors may be retro, including the concept's shade of blue, which was offered on the original truck.

Volkswagen has the original Beetle. Ford has the Thunderbird. Mini has the, er, Mini. And Toyota has the FJ 40. Sold here from late 1958 to 1983 as the first Land Cruiser, the FJ comes closest to an icon product for Japan's leading automaker. It combines Army Jeep compactness and off-roadability with Land Rover worldliness. And, like the FJ Cruiser concept that debuted at the Detroit show, the '06-model production version will be built off a modified Tacoma pickup platform when Toyota launches it in '05.

 

[praetorian]

Future Ride: Toyota FJ Cruiser
Future, go-anywhere SUV revealed at the Detroit auto show

By Todd Lassa
Truck Trend, April 2003

Toyota's production retro-FJ will be truer to the original, with a conventional backlight in the hatch, small rear-quarter windows that wrap from the back to the sides, and a conventionally thin C-pillar with glass filling in the remaining space. Colors may be retro, including the concept's shade of blue, which was offered on the original truck.

God bless you.

All right. I'm in.

Cheers,
prat

 

[praetorian]

Hmmm. Although on finding the article, I would note it was from 2003, so we don't know if that information is still relavent. The fact that he mentioned "traditional" colors, and the fact that the colors that have been announced are anything but traditional, does not give one high hopes.

Still, the c-pillar has to go, right? I mean, they aren't crazy toyota. Right? Right?!?

Cheers,
prat

 

[madams557]

One would hope.

 

[GXO]

It made it into the Honda Ridgeline (BLECH!)

 

[MoJ]

I was told by a Toyota rep and the Chicago auto show that the C-pillar would be downsized due to safety concerns (blind spot). Hope they're right.