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Pearl white | heated Alcantara/leather (black/black) | flappy paddles | touch and go
Did your garage give you a price indication on the JBL speaker package? Seen the brochure but no price at the time.. It's the last box to tick on my want list ... Until the TRD stuff comes to dealerships in Jan
Congrats on the purchase btw!
Pearl white | heated Alcantara/leather (black/black) | flappy paddles | touch and go
Did your garage give you a price indication on the JBL speaker package? Seen the brochure but no price at the time.. It's the last box to tick on my want list ... Until the TRD stuff comes to dealerships in Jan
Congrats on the purchase btw!
TRD being driven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMV4OmCxfI8
first time ive seen it properly move.. looks bloody good
love the front spoiler/bumper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMV4OmCxfI8
first time ive seen it properly move.. looks bloody good
love the front spoiler/bumper
StormLoaded said:
TRD being driven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMV4OmCxfI8
first time ive seen it properly move.. looks bloody good
love the front spoiler/bumper
Looks fun. TRD is less about drifting though. I've had a good go in it today and it doesn't feel like a drift car at all in the dry, it's incredibly planted, the pilot sport tyres are great, makes you want to push harder, but I was taking it a bit easy as it's not my car!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMV4OmCxfI8
first time ive seen it properly move.. looks bloody good
love the front spoiler/bumper
GFWilliams said:
Looks fun. TRD is less about drifting though. I've had a good go in it today and it doesn't feel like a drift car at all in the dry, it's incredibly planted, the pilot sport tyres are great, makes you want to push harder, but I was taking it a bit easy as it's not my car!
Indeed, was just impressed considering its running sticky tyres! Don't think the trd has any engine mods either (bar a panel air filter, exhaust, fancy oil filter) so pretty good smoke!
Looking forward to seeing these pics you're taking anyway ..
StormLoaded said:
Did your garage give you a price indication on the JBL speaker package?
I'm afraid not. It's not something I'm interested in so didn't ask. Didn't even notice it on the options till afterwards anyway. 
ETA fix quoting. Duh!
Edited by LordGrover on Thursday 5th July 08:43
check out this review: http://youtu.be/DYrvhkIivgA
he is a hungarian presenter, but for the first time they made the double effort and filmed an english version of their road test. very well done if you ask me
he is a hungarian presenter, but for the first time they made the double effort and filmed an english version of their road test. very well done if you ask me
RichyBoy said:
AndyQuattro said:
Just test drove a GT86. Love it!
Pros: steering, feel, driving position,head room (I'm 6'with long back), looks, visability,islands, corners, bends, gearbox gate.
Cons: back seats, for me something has to work if its there and they don't. The few tweeks/options of the demo car takes it to just shy of £30k
ODDS: The piped engine noise.
Is this mods? I thought the only options were leather and satnav.Pros: steering, feel, driving position,head room (I'm 6'with long back), looks, visability,islands, corners, bends, gearbox gate.
Cons: back seats, for me something has to work if its there and they don't. The few tweeks/options of the demo car takes it to just shy of £30k
ODDS: The piped engine noise.
Sat in one yesterday (Toyota Brentford). It was Metallic Black, but, horror of horrors, they've only got an Auto Demonstrator! Sacrilege!
If you go for one of these you've got to go manual in my opinion.
1st impressions: The car is smaller than it looks in pictures, but is VERY well packaged. Plenty of room in the front (I'm 6"1). Amazing that they've managed to fit in rear seats given the fact that the 86 is only a little longer than the MK3 MX5. The rear seats would be very uncomfortable for Adults, but useful to have them for kids/spare luggage capacity. The driving position is really nice and low. You do feel like you're sitting on the deck. The steering wheel is nice and small, and the controls all fall readily to hand.
Interior quality. A real mixture. Dash plastics look pretty low rent. Seats are really good. Nice touches: leather padding on the centre console to stop your legs bashing into hard plastic during cornering. The interior does not look like a £25k car - more like a £15k car. Even a Clio Sport has nicer dash plastics.
The real proof of the pudding comes in the driving though. I'll certainly be test driving a manual one. Wouldn't buy one at £25k though. Has anyone managed a discount off one yet??
If you go for one of these you've got to go manual in my opinion.
1st impressions: The car is smaller than it looks in pictures, but is VERY well packaged. Plenty of room in the front (I'm 6"1). Amazing that they've managed to fit in rear seats given the fact that the 86 is only a little longer than the MK3 MX5. The rear seats would be very uncomfortable for Adults, but useful to have them for kids/spare luggage capacity. The driving position is really nice and low. You do feel like you're sitting on the deck. The steering wheel is nice and small, and the controls all fall readily to hand.
Interior quality. A real mixture. Dash plastics look pretty low rent. Seats are really good. Nice touches: leather padding on the centre console to stop your legs bashing into hard plastic during cornering. The interior does not look like a £25k car - more like a £15k car. Even a Clio Sport has nicer dash plastics.
The real proof of the pudding comes in the driving though. I'll certainly be test driving a manual one. Wouldn't buy one at £25k though. Has anyone managed a discount off one yet??
daveknott5 said:
I'll certainly be test driving a manual one. Wouldn't buy one at £25k though. Has anyone managed a discount off one yet??
I have seen the usual brokers offering £1.5k off which doesn't surprise me. Considering buying a basic one with cloth and paint or maybe wait and let someone else pay for extras and 18 month depreciation.Had a good look at Goodwood and the packaging is very clever. I would say it has as much interior space as my MINI but obviously more boot room (not difficult). Pedal box was particularly neat and not as small as I feared despite quite an offset.
I noticed that the majority of the engine is in front of the rear axle which surprised me although the way the press release pics had been taken disguised that quite well.
If I am picky and on a totally irrelevant point for most drivers (but not for me), I think the alloys are diamond cut and raw aluminium without lacquer so they should corrode quickly.
I'll be test driving it shortly and really looking forward to it.
The only competition for me is a 3-door 125i M SPORT.
Edited by nickfrog on Thursday 5th July 13:10
AndyQuattro said:
a few other options but I think they are only cosmetic. I guess leather will be about £2.5k + £500ish for satnav + vat= £30k ish
GT86 is £25k base - cloth seats, touch screen audio but no sat navhalf Alcantara, half Leather heated seats are £1.5k (or £1.6k?) .. (red and black or black and black)
SatNav (touch and go) is £750
then Paint, its £750 for Pearlescent (white), or £450(?) for metallic colour.. think its the red that is free, dont recall it being metallic. (?)
so c£28.5 all in with nice paint + the extras
or 30k if you choose the auto/flappy paddle box (+£1.5k) .. but that's every factory order box ticked.
£1k for the JBL!!.. ouch..
My aunt used to have an automatic Celica - the rounded one with the pop-up headlights, a G-reg if I remember rightly. She never used to take it over about 40mph unless on the motorway, the only time it ever got the cobwebs blown out was when my uncle drove it. But, she really liked that car, and it was as reliable and sensible and painless to own as any other Toyota. I can see the automatic versions of this attracting some similar sales.
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