Monday, November 28, 2011

Official: the Toyota GT-86 sports coupe

After teasing for many years, Toyota’s finally given us the production version of its long-awaited GT 86…
Posted by: Matthew Jones, 28 November 2011
Toyota GT-86 revealed Toyota's finally, finally, finally given us some pictures of the GT 86 - its jazzy new coupe that'll debut at this week's Tokyo Motor. And how long have we been waiting? Since 2009. 2009.

And what's with the new name, eh? Firstly, and for no obvious reason, Toyota's ditched the F and hyphen. Secondly, they've added RULES. Europeans get the GT 86 (but we have to call it the eight six, not eighty six), in Japan it'll be the 86 (as in eighty six and no GT prefix) and America gets the Scion FR-S.

So, what else is there to report? Beyond these heavily Photoshopped pictures, not a lot. We've spotted some slight styling and interior differentiation from the concept - there's a big diffuser on its lower rump, and Toyota's fitted a Very Small Steering wheel (365mm in diameter, which is the smallest it has ever fitted to a road car)

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