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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Anonymous

When the reasonably priced car is not reasonably priced

02/16/2017 - 22:56 |
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Wesly Beausoleil

This is not good… The Toyota can’t handle that jump

02/17/2017 - 00:13 |
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Alfie Hankins

Cool

02/17/2017 - 07:53 |
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5:19.55

A prius would be more in the theme of a reasonably priced car…

02/17/2017 - 09:04 |
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Anonymous

Location-wise it’s still at Dunsfold, I got ticket’s yesterday for next Wednesday’s filming.

02/17/2017 - 09:46 |
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Top Gear's New Reasonably Priced Car Will Reportedly Be A Toyota GT86
MiataMike

Been so caught up in The Grand Tour, I forgot there ever was a Top Gear.

02/17/2017 - 19:41 |
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Anonymous

Why not the Miata/124?! Much cheaper is it not?

02/18/2017 - 00:27 |
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Anonymous

Clarkson would hate so much on that:
“Lads I reckon we give it the same test we did that Toyota pickup”

02/22/2017 - 04:48 |
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Anonymous

That’s one big reason to watch Top Gear (US).

04/11/2017 - 08:17 |
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