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 [...]
What’s the best way to test a new sports coupe? Take it drifting while you burn some tires. That’s exactly what you’re about to witness in this video with the new Toyota GT 86. Check out more news on the Toyota GT 86. Refresher: Power for the 2013 Toyota GT 86 comes from a 2.0 liter 4-clyinder [...]
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 [...]
On Tuesday Toyota released pricing information for its 86 sports car to be released in Japan. The starting price tag on the 86 will be $25,600 for the Customize Grade, and will go up to $38,000 for the GT Limited edition, which is the top-of-the-line model. Resting in between are two trim levels, which include [...]
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, [...]
Toyota has just dropped a new three minute video of the Toyota GT 86 featuring a lot CGI and some loud trance music that some of you might appreci-hate. However, the video does show a nice clip of the chassis and the 2.0 liter 4-clyinder boxer engine. Click here for our original post on the Toyota GT [...]
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 [...]
Speaking to the press at the debut of the Toyota GT 86 at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, CEO Akio Toyoda said that a ‘fun to drive’ theme must remain in the company’s future. “I believe if it is not fun then it is not a car,” Toyoda said. “There are many different ways of [...]
Joining the Toyota GT 86 at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show will be the Subaru version of the sports coupe – known as the BRZ. Following its concept debut at the 2011 LA Auto Show in STI form, the Subaru BRZ will make its production debut this week as the first rear-wheel-drive sports car with [...]
