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Toyota admirers would instantly recognise the 86 badging as a airy almsman to the AE86 action auto of the 1980s, a car based on the Corolla of the time.
The abstraction is simple, architecture a cheap, affordable, rear-wheel drive sports car to accompany fun to the masses.
The architecture assignment was done at Toyota’s ED2 administration flat in France, Subaru will fit its 2.0-litre boxer agent (found in the Impreza). Toyota has been so accurate about this abstraction that alike the blue-red brownish acrylic was distinctively developed by the company.
Don’t run to your Subaru or Toyota banker yet, the sports car will go into assembly in backward 2011. Toyota will do best of the engineering work, Subaru will accord its agent and the car will be put calm at a Subaru plant.
Toyota is bent to accumulate the amount of the car bottomward in the USD $20,000 ambit ($22,000 absolute conversion, although we accept it will be in the aerial 20s low 30s back it comes to Australia).
The car is advised from the arena up and does not allotment belvedere with any added accepted car. Agent will be at the advanced and ability will go to the rear-wheels. If it uses the aforementioned agent as the accepted Impreza, it will accept about 110kW and 200Nm or torque.
At the contempo Subaru Liberty/Outback barrage CarAdvice had the befalling to ask the arch of Subaru’s achievement cast STI whether or not it will bead the 2.5-litre turbocharged agent in this car and the acknowledgment was positive.
We can alone brainstorm what an acquainted by STI adaptation of this car could do! Would you buy the Toyota adaptation or the Subaru adaptation of this car?
FT-86 Abstraction dimensions:
Length 4,160 mm
Width 1,760 mm
Height 1,260 mm
Wheelbase 2,570 mm
Seating 4
