A New Toyota GT86 Is Happening, And It'll Be Here By 2019
It hasn’t exactly been a runaway sales success anywhere in the world, but that hasn’t stopped Toyota confirming a replacement for the GT86.
Toyota Europe boss Karl Schlicht said “The GT86 is at the stage where it’s being decided on the next one…The car serves a big purpose,” Autocar reports. And jolly good news that is too - fun, rear-wheel drive sports cars are in short supply, particularly from Japanese brands.
But how might the car - which Autocar reckons will be on sale in 2018-2019 - take shape? It’s all rather unknown at present, although Subaru’s involvement is seen to be likely. “For the concept to carry on, with the low engine, we’d have to do that. There are a lot of reasons to continue with Subaru,” Schlicht said.
So, we’d probably be looking at another naturally-aspirated boxer four. Sadly, a more powerful turbo variant might be tricky to position, since the GT86’s successor will sit under the new Supra. We can but hope…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Well, there’s some good news after the cancellation of the rx9
They’d better not do a Mazda
We’ll trade you this for the RX9 instead
We’ll trade you this for the RX9 instead
The new GT86, with 1 more horsepower
This car needs boost…..
Dear Toyota, please ditch the boxer and go with a 3sge beams engine.
It doesn’t have to be a rocketship. With the car’s short gearing and 4.70 final drive, 225 ft lbs would make it mad quick. I mean a Fiesta ST makes 220 ft lbs and it has a 3.83 final drive and it’s certainly quick enough when you mash the go pedal
Staying NA is more of an engineering obstacle at this point than a benefit. I can understand why they stuck with a naturally aspirated engine for the current generation, but considering that the one major complaint about this car is the lack of low end torque, and that fuel economy standards are hard to meet with NA power, why not go turbo with the new generation?
A little more power please!
Id like to see an inline 4 in it. Much easier than a boxer to work on and turbo.
In general I’d agree with you, for a large saloon/wagon (Legacy, Forester etc) the advantages of a boxer are pretty much moot because the chassis carries a lot of weight high up.
The GT86/BRZ is, in my opinion, the only road orientated car that Subaru actually makes which makes full advantage of the boxer layout with the weight of the engine sitting as low down and as far back as possible