Scion FR-S Drift Car With 600-HP Intends to Turn Rubber to Smoke: 2012 North American International Auto Show

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Scion Racing has made its 2013 FR-S Drift Car official at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. Less than a week ago, we spotted photos of the same car testing, and our assumptions proved correct: This is the Formula Drift race car for Ken Gushi and the 2012 drift season.

Built in collaboration with GReddy, the FR-S drift car will feature 600-hp and over 500 lb-ft of torque and is presumed to be turbocharged. That's all the details Scion fed us with on the new drift car, but we're sure we'll be hearing more as the Formula Drift season opener on April 6-7th, approaches. But judging by its decals, it appears that the FR-S will operate with KW suspension and Gushi will be drifting on Hankook tires for the 2012 season. GReddy's brake calipers peek behind the Rays wheels and there's no doubt Cosworth had their hands in building the powerplant.

We can't wait to see this thing go sideways.

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Apparently this beast doesn't have an FR-S engine. It's a WRX STI engine (don't know the engine code). I find it believable that they used a different engine to get 600HP cause how would they be able to develop all the internal engine parts and turbo kit to get 600HP out of a 4 cylinder that no one has ever hacked into.

Has anyone else heard about this?