Top Gear's New Reasonably Priced Car Will Reportedly Be A Toyota GT86
Opinion seems to be divided as to whether or not the ‘Star In A Rallycross Car’ segment was a good addition to series 23 of Top Gear, but regardless, it looks like it’s for the chop.
According to The Sun, Top Gear bosses will remove “all trace of Chris [Evans]” - who left the show after just one series at the helm - by ditching the segment altogether.
So, what will replace the lightly prepped Mini Cooper? A Toyota GT86 apparently, with celebrities receiving pointers from both The Stig and Chris Harris on how to lap as quickly as possible in the rear-drive sports car. We can’t help but think it’d be more amusing to keep the rallycross track and stick the GT86 on it, though.
It is worth pointing out that The Sun is hardly a bastion of accurate reporting, so we’ll have to wait and see how this pans out when the next series starts on 5 March. The report also doesn’t mention anything about locations. As revealed a few months ago, there are plans afoot to bulldoze Dunsfold Aerodrome - the location of Top Gear’s studio and track - to make way for houses.
Still, a GT86 does seem like a good choice. There’s an argument for it being ‘reasonably priced’ as far as sports cars go, and the whole rear-wheel drive element could make for some entertaining on-track action.
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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Hey mat
now they must play eurobeat during the lap
Running in the 90’s INTENSIFIES
DE JA VU
I’ve just been in this place before
And paint it white panda, and add watanabe RS wheels, Cibie fog lights, vent cupholder, TRD coilovers…
I hope extra points will be given for drifting through Hammerhead
How about this? (Caterham 7 160)
Yeeees! Except…..The celebs wouldn’t be able to heard in the in-car footage….
BringaCaterhamToMARS
Reasonably priced by whose definitions? Rupert Murdoch’s? Relatively few people can afford to spend £26000 on a car. They should use a Dacia Sandero (preferably the base model)
The mini they used probably wasn’t that much cheaper
More people than you think could afford a car in that price range.
Used ones go for under £20k in decent condition
They are affordable for most middle-class people in the UK
Still not a cheap car, but at least its appropriate on a racetrack unlike Astras and Kias
I wouldn’t say relatively few. Few young people yes, but if you look at the cars you see around, the majority cost around that much when they were new.
INITIAL D INTENSIFIES
So its not a “Reasonably Priced Car” anymore is it?
Reasonably Priced Sports Car?
So do they even have a track to drive on or what?
“Affordable” €50k new and 30 used….
In the us they can be 30k new (with big options), but used ones are 15-19k
They should just get a Corsa or a Ibiza.
Even a Polo.