“The FT-86 Concept is neither an exciting vehicle nor an amalgam vehicle, but is the sports style with a gasoline engine urban to convey the critical plea of automobiles in a new era. It is a must-see theory car that expresses TMC’s request once again to form a Toyota sports car,” the Japanese automaker said in a discharge free on it’s allowed locate.
The compact-a front powered sized vehicle-mounted, 2.0-liter four-cylinder rebel engine sourced from Subaru that drives the rear wheels. Official minutiae are still scarce, but our sources tell us that Toyota opted to equip the paradigm prototype with a logically-aspirated side of Subaru’s 2.0-liter level flour that produces 150HP in the Impreza.
However, it is most that the Japanese automaker has tweaked the engine to oddball out a few more ponies boosting harvest closer to 200 horsepower.
It’s merit noting that in Japan, Subaru also offers a 2.0-liter turbocharged warrior with 250HP that powers the Impreza S-GT that we all know as the WRX in most markets.
It’s still too early to know which powertrains will be available on the production type of the FT-86, but Subaru’s 2.0-liter and 2.5-liter four-cylinder warrior engines (depending on the advertise) in both openly aspirated and turbocharged forms would have to be the most sincere candidates.
The vehicle is extremely compact in dimensions measuring 4,160mm (163.7-in.) in chunk, 1,760mm (69.3-in.) in width, and 1,260mm (49.6-in.) in height with a wheelbase of 2,570mm (101.2-in.).
The FT-86 Concept was penned at Toyota’s European Design Development ED2 studio that’s located in Nice, France. The outdoor create, which obviously won’t change much when it reaches production in 2011, is clearly inspired by Toyota’s FT-HS cross theory that was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in 2007. And yes, we must admit that our first take is very definite.
Evidently that the FT-86′s interior styling is far too conceptual for production, but it does afford an imply or two (no more still…) at the motif command Toyota is pleasing with the production model.
As we’ve already said before, the FT-86 will also generate a Subaru type that will assign the same underpinnings and mechanical hardware but according to the two Japanese automakers, will figure its own separate styling. Hopefully, Subaru’s “devise side” won’t disappoint us this time…
