Run-in complete

[LordGrover]

Picked up my GT86 last Saturday and spent the week getting it run/broken in.
A few snaps along the way...


Arrival in the Principality.


A road.


Car on the road.


Cotswolds run, at Tortworth Court (BTaP Venue)


On the way to the seaside.


At the seaside - Woolacombe.


Job jobbed.


Tired and shagged out after a long day/week.

[paulmoonraker]

It's a nice looking car, more so in that colour...

[LancerG]

So what are you impressions after the first 1000 miles ?
Ive really begun to like these now im seeing them on the road

[ScoobieWRX]

Love the colour!!

[ROB_GTR]

I really like the look of these but they needed to make a top of the range version with a bigger engine or turbo'd.... anything to give it some grunt really.

Its a new version of the celica to me without the GT4 variant

A nice looking car though

[LordGrover]

LancerG said:

So what are you impressions after the first 1000 miles ?

It's really rather good.

The Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains were ideal roads for it, as was Dartmoor and Exmoor. The windy, twisty nature of the roads with few steep inclines meant it felt alive and was great fun, even on the first day limiting myself to 4,000 revs.
TBH, the Fosse Way and the surrounding Cotswolds not so well suited. I've taken my TVR Griffith and the 350Z on some great runs up there but the roads are straight with some decent hills; the extra grunt from the Griff and Zed made it effortless. The 86, not so much.
So... like most things - it has it's strong points on the twisties where it can be flung about and it's not so strong points like out-and-out drag races and long steep hills.
Overall, I think for my style of driving and preferred routes it's excellent.

[Marf]

Sounds good

What kind of MPG are you getting?

[LordGrover]

[JonnyFive]

I do love these.. Even more so after seeing Fredric Aasbos one at Silverstone.

They should come standard with this livery on them, looks so good.

[Marf]

JonnyFive said:

I do love these.. Even more so after seeing Fredric Aasbos one at Silverstone.

They should come standard with this livery on them, looks so good.

Screw the livery, they should come with the 2JZ as standard like Fred's car. /contraversial

Not bad MPG Grover, I guess it'll get better as the engine loosens up a bit.

[LordGrover]

I took the week off last week to run it in, this week will be back to normal so will get a better idea.
I'm expecting +35mpg which is mainly made up of my 10 mile each way 'commute' through lanes but a fair few junctions.

[LordGrover]

JonnyFive said:

I do love these.. Even more so after seeing Fredric Aasbos one at Silverstone.

They should come standard with this livery on them, looks so good.

Did you notice what motor it's running?

[JonnyFive]

LordGrover said:

Did you notice what motor it's running?

Yes.

Sounds brilliant!

Stiggy slid into the GT86 at Silverstone last weekend, bit of damage to the door/sill area

[Marf]

It's running a 2jz

edit: doh, the work firewall was blocking the image above.

Edited by Marf on Tuesday 11th September 17:31

[ROB_GTR]

Now that's more like it!!

I would go buy one right now......... If only