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.
Comments
I thought Harris has the MINI
It would be such a great amusement to watch Simon Cowell drive the GT86. Lol.
Reasonably priced my ar**
boring segement should have been scrap.
Well played Toyota
Nissan 370Z would have been cooler
What about this?
That would be awesome! Watching celebs (especially American basketball players) trying to get into that thing for a lap.
How to audition for a star in a reasonably priced car episode?
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”.
WEEERE DAAA YEEEROOOOBEAAAT