RE: Toyota confirms open-top GT 86
Friday 2nd March 2012
We presume Toyota will do a better job than this...Toyota looks set to add wind-ruffling sideways fun to the GT 86 by creating a roadster version of the rear-drive sports car.
Toyota confirms open-top GT 86
...but its not saying when it'll happen
We presume Toyota will do a better job than this...
Speaking to German car magazine Auto Bild, chief programme engineer for the GT 86 Tetsuya Tada, said that "the GT 86 was designed from the outset that we can build it as a convertible". But although we know it's hapopening, Toyota has not yet decided when we'll see it.
So the lid will be coming down, but it seems as if the price could well go up - Auto Bild reckons on around 35K euros (£29K), which would make it a fair bit more than the £24,995 ToMoCo is going to charge for the coupe.
In which case we hope it looks a little better than our ham-fisted Photoshop job...
Discussion
tomoleeds said:
29k sound a lot for the soft top even a metal folding roof should be priced more 25k if they want to sell many
Folding hard tops are popular for the refinement & security not to mention winter use, but severly impack rear boot space when stowed and also raise the centre of gravity of the car & affect it's handling which is this car's big selling point. This combination explains why many performance cars don't use a hard top, like 911, Boxster, S5, TTS / TTRS, Bentley, Ferarris up to 458, Lambos. In fact it's mainly the more comfort based cars that have a metal roof like SL, SLK, Z4, BMW 3.I'm not sure what this does for the driving car credentials of the coupe?
The MX-5 may have used bits of RWD 323 and the Alfa 8C convertible supposedly handles better than the original coupe but in my head it seems less of a driving tool and more like all the hatchback based metal roofed convertibles.
It's making me think even more that this car is a RWD successor to the Celica for all of the AE86 'branding' nonsense.
The MX-5 may have used bits of RWD 323 and the Alfa 8C convertible supposedly handles better than the original coupe but in my head it seems less of a driving tool and more like all the hatchback based metal roofed convertibles.
It's making me think even more that this car is a RWD successor to the Celica for all of the AE86 'branding' nonsense.
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