TOYOTA CRASHES NASCAR PARTY

摘要

The 650-horsepower Toyota Tundras thundering around Daytona International Speedway last month were 190-mile-per-hour proof that you can teach new dogs old tricks. In becoming the first foreign automaker to crash the emphatically American party of Nascar, Toyota adopted a modern approach to designing a vintage Detroit engine. Nascar's immense popularity is based in part on rules that promote pure competition by limiting pricey technological innovation. That means 358-cubic-inch V8 engines whose fundamental architecture dates back to the Eisenhower Administration. But this did not stop Toyota from employing the most advanced software and manufacturing tools in the auto industry to design its old-school motor. Call it the highest-tech low-tech.