RE: Toyota GT-86 Convertible: Revealed (sort of)
Friday 1st March 2013
This is the car that will make it to production, in near-unaltered form, as the GT-86 Convertible. For now, though, it’s still officially a concept car called the FT-86 Open.
Toyota GT-86 Convertible: Revealed (sort of)
First pictures of FT-86 Open concept - i.e. the rag-top GT-86 with added trinketry - come to light
Our first look at the droptop GT-86 came when Toyota released a sketch of the new car a few weeks ago. Since then, details have been thin on the ground, but we know the FT-86 Open concept will be brought along to Geneva next week so that we can poke around it in the flesh. The production car will, obviously, lose some of the glitz – that white interior with its yellow carpets, for example, probably won’t make the cut. We know it’ll be a 2+2, though, just like the coupe, which will make it somewhat unique in its price bracket. And it’s a pretty safe bet that it’ll get the same 200hp 2.0-litre boxer engine as the coupe too.
There is that thorny issue of price, though. Some pre-launch murmurings have suggested that by the time the GT-86 ’vert hits the shelves it'll cost a stonking £5,000 more than the hard top. Whether that’ll be the reality is subject to debate, but if it is, it might prove a tough pill to swallow.
Discussion
Looks very nice except for some aspects of the two tone interior...but that will never be standard trim in any case. I got the chance to look at the coupe in the flesh the other day, had a good look inside and out. Car looks nice. Only thing for me is that it could do with a bit more torque and power looking at the bare stats. Once it does I would consider it as a serious purchase option.
doogz said:
If it's been designed with a certain suspension set up in mind, and they've considered this when calculating the properties of the chassis with regards to torsional rigidity and such like, then yes, the hard top may be slightly stiffer, but as long as the soft top is stiff enough, it won't 'suffer'
It may not be as stiff, depending on what the differences actually are, but stiffer doesn't automatically mean better.
Ta. Will be interesting to see. Hoping it's better than their last Celica convertible effort.It may not be as stiff, depending on what the differences actually are, but stiffer doesn't automatically mean better.
I think that's actually a pretty car.
Apart from only being able to drop the roof a few days a year when the weather permits in the UK, there is one other major drawback...
They need to sort out the sound that it makes as the coupe doesn't sound good at all and that's surely meant to be one of the major benefits of a drop top.
Apart from only being able to drop the roof a few days a year when the weather permits in the UK, there is one other major drawback...
They need to sort out the sound that it makes as the coupe doesn't sound good at all and that's surely meant to be one of the major benefits of a drop top.
Edited by JuanGandini on Friday 1st March 10:47
At least we have some better pictures now, rather than what was spied a couple of weeks ago.
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