Swiss Magazine Reviews the Toyota FT-86 / FR-S!! + New photos interesting details

[import_nation]

Toyota FT-86: So fährt sich der neue Celica - Neuheiten - Auto - Blick.ch

Google translated text:

Project manager Tetsuya Tada had done in the past couple years, all hands. Together with Subaru, Toyota has developed a sports coupe that offers 40,000 francs from affordable driving fun and as an image carrier to serve beyond the hybrid success.

The appearance of the new Celica with a flat front, low roofline and crunchy at the rear can also folienbeklebten prototypes with the project name FT-86 can be seen. "He is even flatter than a Porsche Cayman or a Ferrari 430," Tada notes proudly.

When driving, shows the FT-86, that he can be a real sports car. The seats are contoured closely and comfortably. The steering wheel feels good in the hand and the gear shift is reminiscent of the six-speed joystick for the Mazda MX-5. The ****pit is built around the driver. The speed is displayed digitally and analogue and shines in the middle of the instruments by Porsche-style, a large tachometer.

As for the drive, Toyota refuses to conditions surprisingly timid sports car from the window: the two-liter boxer engine with 200 hp of Subaru but provides a valuable look flat front, but offers no Turbo, the car could lend wings. For now, goes on sale next summer, only this variant planned. But under scrutiny, both a 250-hp version and a roadster.

Is Toyota out of luck?

Nearly half a year after the tsunami and severe nuclear accident in Japan, Toyota once again raises a natural disaster off the track. At present, approximately 150,000 vehicles will not be built because the production is from several suppliers and assembly plants in Thailand under water. This has an impact on production in Japan, where the works are currently busy only 70 to 80%. In addition, Toyota has continued to struggle with the strong yen. Thus the operating profit in the second quarter of the melted end of March 2012 to the current fiscal year by about a third to around 840 million francs.

There are more photos in the article. Enjoy guyss.

[dboz]

LOL at political correctness. You can't even use the word ****pit without getting edited.

[Flat-box]

toyota has taken huge hits, and yet they are still going strong but, i wonder how long they can keep this up, for once fact those lack luster corolla and camerys wont sell like hot cakes..

[import_nation]

****pit

[Flat-box]

guess i should give this a shot ****pit!

[hatchi]

im glad they didnt use a ton of engine covers like one big one to cover the bay, but they'd rather show it off and just leave it bare, its cars like this that impress me and show me which market this car is geared towards.

[FR_S_Fan]

im glad they didnt use a ton of engine covers like one big one to cover the bay, but they'd rather show it off and just leave it bare, its cars like this that impress me and show me which market this car is geared towards.

I think it looks pretty sick like that with just the engine exposed, and even better once someone does a wire tuck

[cfrp]

One nice thing revealed in these photos is the interior. Anyone notice its all black? Even the headliners and pillars?