Toyota FT-86

Toyota FT-86

Not too long back, Toyota unleashed their new sports car called the FT-86 or Scion FRS in the US region. Its been quite a while since Toyota produced a sports car and it is good to know that they haven’t forgot about it. The FT-86 is powered by a naturally aspirated 2litre flat-4 boxer engine that produces about 197 hp. The car comes with an option of two transmissions, 6 speed manual transmissions or an automatic with paddle shifters.  According to the Toyota website, the FT-86 does 0-100km/h in 7.6s in the manual and 8.2s in the automatic while the top speed is 210km/h for the automatic and 226km/h for the manual.

The car looks not too bad having futuristic features and actually resembles some of the looks of its cousin, the Lexus LFA which was released a couple of years ago. But what it is actually is a new version of its predecessor, the Toyota AE86.  Toyota AE86 is an iconic car especially in the drift world. The new FT-86 is also tailored to the drifting world, with it having all its power to the rear wheels. This car is said to be a good fun throughout. All sounds good till it gets to the price. Price starts from a blistering RM243000 and goes all the way to RM250000; can’t really blame Toyota for this, because it is the Malaysian Customs that are slapping high tax rates for imported foreign cars. 

All in all, it is a good car but run times could be a lot better probably with the help of aftermarket tuners and about the price, well we can't do much about it can we.