Gloomy economic forecasts are generally not good news for high performance cars-in-embryo, and the current wobbly financial climate means that the planned soft-top Lexus LF-A supercar is unlikely to see the light of day.
But what's bad news for the plutocrats, footballers and multi-millionaires of this world (for the LF-A roadster would hardly have been a cheap car) could be good news for the less ridiculously wealthy among us.
That's because (at least according to CAR magazine) ToMoCo is sticking by its promise to continue shifting its focus onto more sporty cars, and word is that this means more than just the FT86 (when it eventually arrives).
....but a successor to this could be in
So what is Toyota working on? Well, a go-faster version of the Lexus CT200h is one option (which sounds distinctly 'meh' to us), while a re-born Supra may also be on the cards as soon as 2014. We know which of those two options gets our vote...