HKS decided to strap the new Toyota 86 sports coupe on the dyno to test Toyota’s claims regarding its power. The car is supposed to churn out 200hp, the dyno reads 170. We thought 200hp wasn’t enough for this well-balanced, rear-drive, sports car. Turns out it doesn’t even have 200! Mind you, this is the [...]

As promised Toyota brought a number of customized cars to the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon, including a couple of tuned GT86 models. Read More… The most important model of course, is the one by Toyota Racing Development (TRD). Highlights of TRD 86 include a reworked suspension with new front and rear anti-roll bars, a carbon [...]

Here’s a nice compilation video for the Toyota GT86 with footage of it at the track, on the road, in testing and development. But the best part of it must be the car paying homage to its ancestors. When you see both cars side by side you can’t help but think the old one looks [...]

Toyota quickly, almost too quickly, realized that 197bhp is not really enough for a car as good-looking and as well-balanced as the 86. Read More… So they’re going to address the issue by launching a hotted-up supercharged version of the car. The job of making the supercharged 86 has been given to Toyota Racing Development [...]

The third version of Toyota’s 86 sports car is for America and it wears a Scion badge over there. Read More… The Scion FR-S goes on sale in America from spring 2012 for an undisclosed price. The 2+2 sports coupe is a classic front-engined rear-drive car but it promises better handling and balance,  and more [...]

On the occasion of unveiling the new ’86′ at the Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota released a new promo clip for the car featuring its distinctive engine roar. That is the sound of a 2.0 liter Subaru boxer engine featuring Toyota’s DS-4 injection system. It makes 200 hp in this sports coupe, which doesn’t sound like [...]

Bet you are quite excited about the newly revealed Toyota GT86! No? Well, check out this videos anyway. They might get your engine revving. The new Japanese sportscar is not designed to be another Nissan GTR. It is designed to be a proper, affordable, honest to God, driver-focused sports coupe. And it does that brilliantly [...]

Toyota released today the first pictures of the production version of the FT-86 Concept. It has a new name, but it’s not Celica. It’s called the GT86. Read More… It still isn’t a fancy name, but it pays homage to Toyota’s old sportscars, namely Corolla GT (or Levin) AE86 from 1980s. The car is the [...]