Comments on: Illustrated: Toyota FT-86 convertible

By: DaSpyda

DaSpyda — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:53:21 +0000

Celica replacement, with leanings toward Supra – two cars in one.

Still waiting on mid-engined, lightweight roadster to replace MR2 Spyder…

By: DrFill

DrFill — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:40:34 +0000

Replaces Scion tC
DrFill

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:42:46 +0000

I hope they can get the car to come out decently equipped at at around the 25K range…they would sell everyone on the lot!

By: leftwingagenda

leftwingagenda — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:31:53 +0000

not really buying the genesis coupe as a competitor to the g35 coupe argument…(not sure if you mean coupes here, but i’m assuming so)…they may have said such things in press releases, but with a base price in the low 20s the genesis coupe is not competing with the g35 in any real sense…most car mags pitted the genesis coupe against the v6 camaro, even…or other stuff in the 25k-30k bracket (mazdaspeed 3, for example, which is more like 24-26k)…not the 35k bracket the g35 coupe hangs around in…

so this toyota will more than likely, imo, compete with the genesis coupe…mid 20s…probably near 30k with all the bells and whistles on the convertible…

By: Soravia

Soravia — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:50:01 +0000

The Genesis was made to go against the G35, especially because of the massive weight it has. FT-86 is supposed to be hundreds of pounds lighter (and smaller). It would be very close to 7th Gen Celica GT-S, with RWD.

By: jzcarguy

jzcarguy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:42:31 +0000

JakeK66 – well said! You are exactly right! put the naturally aspirated version priced to compete with genesis coupe 4cyl and make the turbo to compete with the genesis coupe v6. It makes complete sense, and I agree as well that it will still work out very well for them. But if they price it like several here have said, (and I unfortunately agree), then the n/a 4cyl will probably be priced with the genesis coupe v6, and thus the toyota will lose.

By: DrFill

DrFill — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:52:06 +0000

Some fresh ignorance from another rookie
Great!
DrFill

By: CiNO

CiNO — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Toyota version doesn’t need Turbo, or AWD. It needs NA engine, and RWD. It’s not MKV, but it’s Hachiroku.

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:20:50 +0000

I welcome any new affordable RWD car. With 220 hp in a lightweight car, I question the need for turbo and doubt whether it will really be produced.

By: 85ZingoGTR

85ZingoGTR — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:11:33 +0000

Doesn’t count. It was co-designed with toyota.

By: DrFill

DrFill — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:11:29 +0000

A car for all the Players to play in
And all the haters to hate on
You know who you are
DrFill

By: IIL Designs

IIL Designs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:54:32 +0000

Who cares what its a successor to.. Its still a POS toyota.. Always was crappy always will be crappy, its just fact…

By: e46Ne90

e46Ne90 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:09:28 +0000

why is every1 comparing this to solara? solara(and celica) is fwd piece of crap that was never a sports car. last time toyota made sports car was proper rear wheel drive mr-2 which was discontinued in 2003. anyway toyota is going right direction with this car. build it and charge it less than 25k. this would be a good alternative to next gen 1series IF they do it right

By: superman

superman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:27 +0000

nice

By: Kafziel

Kafziel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:28:22 +0000

Am I the only one wondering how a car this tiny managed to fit four seats?

By: Snowclone

Snowclone — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:10:26 +0000

Chief Engineer Tetsuya Tada on the color of theToyota FT-86 Sports Car concept to debut in Tokyo:

“Sports cars have to be red, but we wanted a new red,” Tada said. “So we came up with shoujyouhi red, the traditional red color of a Japanese monkey’s arse”

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:30 +0000

Toyota – just do us all a favor and stop effin around and sell this thing for the same price as the Genesis Coupe – just do it! Trust me, you’ll be happy you did.

By: Beefcake

Beefcake — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:51:32 +0000

That looks cool… now remove the useless back seats, make it a 2-seater, make a turbocharged model and i’ll take my pants off. No no, I meant i’d consider buying one. Yeah, that’s it…

By: Hyperion

Hyperion — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:24:22 +0000

I love it how when each of these articles talks about a Turbocharged Toyota version they ALWAYS mention it coming with AWD. If anything, it seems like the turbo version is very iffy on the Toyota side and besides that, just because Subaru is making a logical turbo AWD version, why should Toyota? Rear wheel drive is absolutely fine for a 300HP engine and Toyota is looking for ways to differentiate their version from Subaru’s anyway.

By: CiNO

CiNO — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:04:26 +0000

I guess this car going to sub25k. It more likely to be successor of Trueno/Levin. Hope this one come with LSD, and ABS/TCS off botton

By: NRG

NRG — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:40:32 +0000

RainMan, this looks more like a replacement for the Supra, finally, than it does for the Solara. This is much better looking than the Sky/Soltice cars any day. Decent HP too. Hopefully it won’t look much diifferent than the sketch. It should be around $28k-$35k, hopefully. Knowing Toyota, it will be $35k-$40k.

By: Hammer

Hammer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:18:20 +0000

the reflected bush remained on the car. the photoshopper should remove the reflections of the original background, or keep the background itself.

like some tuners of hvtm.hu did:

http://hvtm.hu/index.php3?ID=9000&carID=9521

http://hvtm.hu/index.php3?ID=9000&carID=9501

By: Borat

Borat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:09:33 +0000

teahead, had some coffee lately?

By: teahead

teahead — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:57:20 +0000

PUt me down for one. I know, I spew “buy American” but until they make something like this, I’ll have to buy this.

More slick than the Saturn Sky/Pontiac Solstice.

By: Borat

Borat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:48:39 +0000

don’t forget to clean up the mess….

By: MAJ3STQ

MAJ3STQ — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:45:57 +0000

Give me the hard top matte black, with gun metal rims pref 20′s or 19′s wide and sticky…we can get Blue xenons up front, smoke the tail lamps…Borla exhaust too…o.k. I am done

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:34:49 +0000

No doubt. It’s going to be Toyota’s Camaro. Only I don’t think you’re going to be seeing a lot of Asians suddenly sporting mullets.

By: Borat

Borat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:33:31 +0000

Over 200 ponies (without turbo!) and 6 speed manual. My cards are pointing to the base price of 26-28 large. To be fair, topless Mini is north of 25 and it has half the ponies.

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:30 +0000

Johnny… the Supra was priced out of its league back in the 90′s, and they still go for $15,000+ on the used market.

If Toyota makes it, and makes it right, this thing could be a big winner.

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:28:10 +0000

I like this car a lot. I wonder what the real life version will look like though

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:23:50 +0000

That does look sharp. I just hope they don’t price this thing out of its league… but knowing Toyota they probably will.

By: worst 3

worst 3 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:47 +0000

with 300hp make sure to take the floor mats out.

dose look good though, a lot like the z to me

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:35 +0000

A real sports car by Toyota… it’s about time they got a replacement for that sorry Solara.

By: leftwingagenda

leftwingagenda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:11 +0000

looks pretty slick…i wonder how it would do as a 2-seater…