Our friends at Drive recently had the chance to get behind the new Toyota GT 86 sports coupe. Lead man Chris Harris gives us his take on the new rear-wheel-drive coupe from the Japanese automaker in the 30 minutes he had with the car on the track. Check out the video after the jump. Click here [...]
While putting together the commercial for the new 2013 Scion FR-S in Northern California, Scion Racing’s Ken Gushi, official stunt driver for the shoot, had a very close encounter with a deer on some mountain roads. Fortunately, Ken and the deer were unharmed during the making of the commercial. Click here for our original post on [...]
Considering that Toyota’s latest collaboration with Subaru, the FT-86 (also coined Toyobaru), is upping the ante in the market of affordable sports cars, it’s not unreasonable to think that aftermarket-tuning companies are hard at work to prepare for the FT-86 tuning crowd. And to pose as a small teaser for their work in progress, aftermarket [...]
In a way that might almost make the cars collectibles before they have come out, Toyota/Scion offered up the first 86 Scion FR-Ss in a unique online contest with GReddy. Those interested in purchasing the new Subaru/Toyota sports car signed up in an eight hour and six minute window at www.ScionFirst86.com. Out of the multitudes, [...]
As Toyota gets ready to come back to the market with a new rear-wheel-drive sports coupe – the Toyota GT 86 and the Scion FR-S – the company is looking back at its roots with a new promotional video showing the new GT-86/FR-S driving next to the S800. Click here for our original post on [...]
Can the Scion FR-S drift? Pro drifter Ken Gushi answers the question along with a lot of handbrake and a lot of wet track. Check out the video after the jump. Click here for our original post on the 2013 Scion FR-S. Refresher: Power for the Scion FR-S comes from a 2.0 liter naturally-aspirated 4-cylinder horizontally [...]
As Subaru suggested at the LA Auto Show, there is room in this world for a even quicker version of the sub-3,000 lb rear-wheel-drive Subaru/Toyota sportscar and Toyota has announced that it plans on making even quicker versions of the GT 86. Toyota’s chief engineer, Tetsuo Tada suggested some supercharging may happen, which makes sense [...]
While the Toyota GT 86 and the Subaru BRZ make their debut at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Scion held a small gathering in Los Angeles tonight to debut their production version of the rear-wheel-drive sports car – the 2013 Scion FR-S (Front-engine Rear-wheel-drive Sport). “Tonight will go down in history as not only the night [...]
So you’re in the market for a brand new vehicle and are wondering if you should pull the trigger within the next couple of days/weeks or whether you should hang on to see what new vehicles will be coming out in 2012. Lucky for you, we’ve put together a list of 37 brand new vehicles [...]
The North American Car and Truck of the Year organization has released the list of nominees for 2012. The list consists of 24 vehicles including 17 cars and seven light trucks. A juror of 50 U.S. and Canadian journalists will pick the winner that will be announced at the 2012 Detroit AUto Show in January. [...]
