RE: GT 86 for £16K...

[deviant]

davepoth said:

xRIEx said:

ambuletz said:

How much would a more powerful engine cost? surely no more then £10k right?

Get the base £16k GT86, throw out the 2litre 200hp lump. Throw in a supra engine.

I was under the impression that the bonnet is very low with the boxer engine in there, would a straight 6 fit under there?

Probably not. Supercharge it using the available TRD kit, that should be plenty.

It would completely destroy what the car was built to do anyway. The current engine sits very low down and between the front wheels...an inline 6 would sit very high and most of it would be forward of the front wheels.

[Marf]

Why all this talk of fitting an inline six when you have a vast range of turbocharged flat four engines to play with?

[AlecG]

I too am excited about this car - hopefully Toyota/Subaru will sell loads, prompting a more competition in this area! I'm planning on getting one in 2 years, and saving has already started! (This is coming from a 27 year old who likes to play around with cars, and the newest car I've owned has been 8 years old.)

I'm not surprised it's coming from Toyota either - I had a mk3 facelift MR2 and it was a brilliant car.

[kambites]

Marf said:

Why all this talk of fitting an inline six when you have a vast range of turbocharged flat four engines to play with?

And indeed a factory approved supercharger from TRD looking distinctly likely.

[jamoor]

I wonder if this is still for sale at 1,900,000 Yen, makes it £11,111 according to my maths.

[GrizzlyBear]

elementad said:

This isnt a new thing. I remember when i bought my EP3 back in 2002 and there WAS an option back then to buy a stripped version from the UK dealership which had no radio, no sound deadening, no electric windows, no parcel shelf, etc etc etc but i'm not sure i ever saw ANYONE in the UK bought this version. Japan i'm sure they would.

Its the way I want all cars to be...

[GrizzlyBear]

Well if Toyota and going to spoil our fun by not bring it oven, how long before we get the imports?

They could have got rid of loads more weight than that, modern cars are full of pointless stuff.

I want one

[irish boy]

Won't be very long until a low mile used one will be £16k. Probably already are in the trade.

[hornetrider]

Cheapest on AT is 17.4 so probably 13-14 in the trade.

[Pelo]

Zombie thread revival!

We get the RC model in NZ as well http://the86.co.nz/86RC/

[GrizzlyBear]

m3jappa said:

I love how 25k is considered cheap.

I'm definately in the wrong line of work it appears

If people can (only just) afford the monthly payment they don't care how long they pay it for or at what interest rate. Considering the median wage in the UK is below £25K, this is an expensive car.

Give them 5 years of depreciation and I will think about one.

[LuS1fer]

Reminds me of a Rover Streetwise. Yuk.

[tali1]

Think it should be named the GT86 Dacia

[LasseV]

tali1 said:

Think it should be named the GT86 Dacia

huh? You know, this model is for racers and tuners.

??

[tali1]

LasseV said:

tali1 said:

Think it should be named the GT86 Dacia

huh? You know, this model is for racers and tuners.

??

Stripped out basic , steel wheels, unpainted bumpers......

[TREMAiNE]

ajprice said:

40kg doesn't seem like much of a weight loss really, has it still got electric windows? (can't see keep fit window winders on the doors).

But still, what would £16k end up as through an importer to the UK?

Sadly it'd be circa 21k including shipping and tax.

May as well buy a second hand one and strip it!

[DiscoColin]

TREMAiNE said:

ajprice said:

40kg doesn't seem like much of a weight loss really, has it still got electric windows? (can't see keep fit window winders on the doors).

But still, what would £16k end up as through an importer to the UK?

Sadly it'd be circa 21k including shipping and tax.

May as well buy a second hand one and strip it!

Indeed - I see that early low-milers are down in the £17.5k range already. The open question though is that with the significant weakening of the yen over the last couple of years, surly Toyota could offer the basic car new in the UK (including taxes and so on) for around or even below that original £16k asking price by now?? Could be a game changer for sales if they did...

[Catatafish]

DiscoColin said:

Indeed - I see that early low-milers are down in the £17.5k range already. The open question though is that with the significant weakening of the yen over the last couple of years, surly Toyota could offer the basic car new in the UK (including taxes and so on) for around or even below that original £16k asking price by now?? Could be a game changer for sales if they did...

Has anyone priced up a personal import?

As for Toyota bringing them in, they should at least offer them, but I fear even at 16k, most of the idiot population would ignore a petrol engine car unless it had zero road tax.

[RenesisEvo]

I received an email a few days ago - Subaru UK have dropped the price of the BRZ to 24k. Not a huge reduction, but enough to push it below some of the pre-registered and barely used cars I've seen advertised. I'm hoping this will start to push the prices down, as I just can't see past an MX-5 at the moment, especially with the Mk4 on the way.