RE: Official: Toyota GT 86 revealed (at last)

[JB!]

StormLoaded said:

Press kit shows various special editions



Source : FT86Club

Bottom version looks hard as nails!..

WANT!!!

[braddo]

Save Ferris said:

The Toyota sales managers had their annual sales conference at the NEC yesterday, and were told the GT86 would start around £25K. The official launch is June, with approx 1500 cars for the UK in 2011.

They will be sold out by July.

[otolith]

braddo said:

Save Ferris said:

The Toyota sales managers had their annual sales conference at the NEC yesterday, and were told the GT86 would start around £25K. The official launch is June, with approx 1500 cars for the UK in 2011.

They will be sold out by July.

And will probably have very low depreciation - could be a very cheap year's motoring, I would have thought.

[ambuletz]

Looks like a supercharged verson will be in the works too.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

[otolith]

ambuletz said:

Looks like a supercharged verson will be in the works too.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

"Indeed Toyota says that turbocharging along with four-wheel drive and wide tyres are what make sports cars boring to drive."

Toyota gets it.

[hornetrider]

otolith said:

And will probably have very low depreciation - could be a very cheap year's motoring, I would have thought.

Yep, is it about 6 per dealer? Can imagine they will sell out very quickly and initial depreciation will be very low. Kind of like Mini when it first came out.

[s m]

otolith said:

ambuletz said:

Looks like a supercharged verson will be in the works too.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

"Indeed Toyota says that turbocharging along with four-wheel drive and wide tyres are what make sports cars boring to drive."

Toyota gets it.

Anyone told the F40 and GT2 RS owners ....or were they having a pop at the Mitsubishi GTO?

[Kozy]

The F40 and RS are supercars with supercar peformance though, wouldn't fancy one of them on Prius tyres!

[Complex]

They're also both RWD.

[s m]

Complex said:

They're also both RWD.

That is indeed correct - it wasn't clear from the above whether Toyota thought it was a combo of all 3 that made them boring or any given one though as in - 4wd 911 Turbo = boring, GT2 = exciting

Edited by s m on Friday 2nd December 15:58

[Stig]

Had a good close up look at it (in the metal) yesterday. Pics don't do it justice. As said above, 215 tyres and 17" wheels, a decent balance of power and weight and RWD is what will make this car a hoot to drive. Quite a few bits of bodywork seemed replaceable (see limited editions) which makes Scion like customisation as possibility.

Interior trim very nice too. It will be interesting to see the first drive reports.

[s m]

Stig said:

Had a good close up look at it (in the metal) yesterday. Pics don't do it justice. As said above, 215 tyres and 17" wheels, a decent balance of power and weight and RWD is what will make this car a hoot to drive. Quite a few bits of bodywork seemed replaceable (see limited editions) which makes Scion like customisation as possibility.

Interior trim very nice too. It will be interesting to see the first drive reports.

Should have a good 'feel' with that size tyre - to think when the E30 M3/Sierra Cosworth came out, similar power, similar weight, a 205 width tyre on a 7" rim was considered big!

[KB_S1]

High praise from evo

[s m]

KB_S1 said:

High praise from evo

Yeah, I saw the new mag write-up last night - next month for the big article

[5lab]

s m said:

otolith said:

ambuletz said:

Looks like a supercharged verson will be in the works too.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

"Indeed Toyota says that turbocharging along with four-wheel drive and wide tyres are what make sports cars boring to drive."

Toyota gets it.

Anyone told the F40 and GT2 RS owners ....or were they having a pop at the Mitsubishi GTO?

given the BS that autocar's put out on this one so far, are we really going to believe their 'toyota insider' on this one?

(not saying it won't happen - a stopped clock is right twice a day..)

[hornetrider]

KB_S1 said:

High praise from evo

Indeed.

Evo said:

How does it compare?

It makes a Scirocco seem synthetic, an RCZ anaesthetised, a 3-series Coupé over-complicated. This is a pure driving device like an Elise or an MX-5 with sharpened sinews. This is how a proper sporting coupé should be. Toyota intended it to embody elements of the 1960s 2000GT and the 1980s rear-drive Corolla Twin-Cam (AE86), and it does.

Bish bash bosh, job jobbed.

Also - 1190kgs and 25k. Impressive.

Time for the naysayers to wind their necks in.

[hornetrider]

......though maybe leave this spoiler in the parts bin...

[StormLoaded]

Official Spec/Options/Colours




No official news of TRD parts etc at the moment

>edit .. yes no mention of that big wing on the options list! .. and a great review indeed by Evo

Edited by StormLoaded on Saturday 3rd December 10:52

[speedster1950mr2]

Hyudia at first glance,although i would say that was a very gooding looking car in its time!More important though is how long will it look good,i dont think so any manufacturer could have designed this, shame i am a TOYOTA BIG FAN.Perhaps in real life it may be different.

[jjr1]

Great spec but how much is the sat nav going to be? An essential these days.