Top Gear's New Reasonably Priced Car Will Reportedly Be A Toyota GT86

A tabloid is reporting that Top Gear's Mini Cooper 'Rallycross Car' will be ousted by a Toyota GT86
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.

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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.

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Comments

Anonymous

I thought Harris has the MINI

02/16/2017 - 15:32 |
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Anonymous

It would be such a great amusement to watch Simon Cowell drive the GT86. Lol.

02/16/2017 - 16:38 |
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Ewan23 (The Scottish guy)

Reasonably priced my ar**

02/16/2017 - 17:05 |
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Anonymous

boring segement should have been scrap.

02/16/2017 - 17:49 |
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Anonymous

Well played Toyota

02/16/2017 - 17:59 |
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Gites

Nissan 370Z would have been cooler

02/16/2017 - 19:24 |
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Noah Thorley Images

What about this?

02/16/2017 - 19:53 |
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That would be awesome! Watching celebs (especially American basketball players) trying to get into that thing for a lap.

02/18/2017 - 21:57 |
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DownbeatPower85

How to audition for a star in a reasonably priced car episode?

02/16/2017 - 21:04 |
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Anonymous

As I said in the Facebook comments; this just defeats the point of the Reasonably Priced Car. The stars are meant to be driving around in a car which was built with no intention of going on the track. It’s meant to just be your average FWD hatchback designed to just go to the shops and back. The GT86 is a sport orientated car made with performance in mind. And £25,000 isn’t exactly “reasonably priced”.

02/16/2017 - 21:28 |
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That_NSX_Guy

WEEERE DAAA YEEEROOOOBEAAAT

02/16/2017 - 22:01 |
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