The Toyota GT86 Thread

Nearly new buying guide: Toyota GT86

The GT86 is an engaging sports car with everyday appeal. We investigate

Sports cars are nice in principle, but buying them used can be hard to justify. There’s the fear that they will cost too much to run, be difficult to drive in day-to-day traffic and have a stiff, uncouth ride.

Fortunately, Toyota has a history of making fun, inexpensive and reliable performance cars, so when it teamed up with Subaru in 2012 to make the GT86, the result was a modern classic.

The GT86 used exactly the same 197bhp 2.0-litre, four-cylinder engine as the Subaru BRZ. A lot of hot hatches have more power than that, but the aim here was to give just enough power, allowing its performance potential to be exploited more of the time. As such, you need to rev the engine hard to get any meaningful acceleration since it lacks the low-down torque of a turbocharged engine.

Driving the GT86 in the dry is a pleasure, with direct, well-weighted steering, some fine chassis dynamics and enough grip to keep you on the straight and narrow. It’s meant to be a playful car on the limit, and the narrow tyres contribute to this. In damp conditions, you may find the back end starts to step out of line sooner than expected. However, it is very progressive and the standard stability control system will step in to assist.

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The GT86 is an engaging sports car with everyday appeal. We investigate
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Goodbye Toyota GT86: Last blast in a sports car great

Even after nine years with no real changes, the GT86 signed off as one of the most ridiculously engaging, playful sports cars. We bid it a fond farewell

There is a tremendous consistency to the things we’ve said about the Toyota GT86 and its Subaru BRZ twin during the past 10 years. In September 2011, a see-through full-size model of the coupé appeared on the Subaru stand at the Frankfurt motor show, with its drivetrain on full display. “It will have the lowest centre of gravity of any rear-drive sports car on the market,” we wrote.

That November, I first drove the Toyota version, a disguised prototype when we still thought it would be called the FT-86. But while the name ended up different, what we thought about its purity remained the same. “If you add more power, you will need a turbocharger and bigger brakes, and that adds weight, and that’s where the downward spiral starts, right?” I wondered. Correct, said Toyota: “The key development for the FT-86 is that it’s a front-engined, rear-drive car with intuitive handling. A fun car is a car you can control. We rejected the idea of a car developed using numbers. It must have a front-engine/rear-drive layout, a naturally aspirated engine and a low centre of gravity.”’

The effect of all of those characteristics was startling. By the following summer, we had given the finished article a five-star road test rating. That autumn, it won our Britain’s Best Affordable Driver’s Car contest. Then it moved onto the full, non-affordable competition, and it beat everything in that, too.

That Christmas, we named it one of our cars of the year (obviously): “The package is so well conceived and so persuasively delivered that the threat of diminishment shadows any possible alteration. More power? Perhaps, but it isn’t intended to be fast and a turbo would likely ruin the perfectly poised throttle response. A bigger, better, quieter interior? Well, okay, but we wouldn’t want to add a single solitary kilogram to [Tetsuya] Tada’s and [Toshio] Masuda’s [chief programme engineers of Toyota and Subaru respectively] hard-won 1275kg kerb weight.” In fact, we weighed one car at just 1235kg fully fuelled.

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Goodbye Toyota GT86: Last blast in a sports car great | Autocar

Even after nine years with no real changes, the GT86 signed off as one of the most ridiculously engaging, playful sports cars. We bid it a fond farewell
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Reader's Ride | Why Nakita Padayachee drives a Toyota 86 (and her supercharged ambition)
  • The 'feel of driving' has Nakita Padayachee smitten with her Toyota GT 86 sports car.
  • Although it's stock, for now, she has big plans to boost the car's power and torque.
  • She's founded a new car club aimed at female petrolheads.
Mention the Toyota GT 86 among petrolheads, and you'll immediately spark a conversation. It's a polarising vehicle; some say it's the best sports car you can buy (that won't cost an arm and a leg to run), while others will tell you that it's too slow.

Of course, we each want different things in cars - some of us want speed and the bragging rights that come with it. Others want handling and dynamics. Some want good looks. Nakita Padayachee was drawn to the Toyota GT 86 because of its sultry lines and classic sports car proportions.

"The first time I saw the 86, I knew I had to have it. I didn't even have to drive it to know that I wanted it and that it would be my next car," she says. Padayachee is the founder of Gas Babes Cartel, an up and coming car crew aimed at female motoring enthusiasts.

"I owned a Suzuki Swift, and I loved driving it, but the Toyota GT 86 appealed to me for several reasons. The styling, the way it sat on the road, and the interior design came together perfectly for me. The sports seats and seating position make me feel like I'm 'driving' and in something extraordinary."

https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/...ota-86-and-her-supercharged-ambition-20220504

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Does anyone know if you can fit the Harmon PV602 from a yaris in an 86?

Reason I ask is the 2020 GT86 comes with the PV602.

I have a 2015 GT86 with the TAS300 unit in - and would like to possibly replace it with the PV602 that way I can get android auto etc - and I believe its just plug and play, and will work with existing hand free harnesses etc - but can anyone confrim?

And anyone know where I might be able to get a PV602?

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FiestaST said:
Tell us more!
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This week, got a GD-6 - 6 Speed Manual (New Hilux) Gearbox, modified the space so it would fit.
Checked today and if fits.
Next week, getting a panel beater to beat some panels.
The week after, a spray painter to spray some paint.
Will keep y'all updated, first time I've seen this thread.
 
FiestaST said:
In my humble opinion 100% on white.

White just gets that clean look you wont get with another colour + just shows better if you later want to add decals or designs or stickers or whatever.
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My old man always told me; "white it right"

Although I now think he might not have been talking about cars...
 
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