Toyota Officially Reveals 2012 Toyota GT 86 (FT-86) Sports Car w/Videos

Toyota’s sports car excitement seems to have been officially resurrected in what is now called the new Toyota GT 86. The official revealing of the long awaited FT-86 concept in its production skin will still take place at the Tokyo Motor Show (Nov. 29th). Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda could not wait to take the wraps off one of the most highly anticipated cars for the enthusiast market, so here it is.

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‘Toyota FT-86 Devoted to Innovation’ Teaser Video Released Ahead of Tokyo Motor Show

The upcoming 2011 Tokyo Motor Show will give a glimpse into the near future revealing several highly anticipated vehicles to hit showroom floors next year. One of those vehicles remains to be the Toyota FT-86 aka Scion FR-S aka Subaru BRZ. Days before its official production-skin unveiling, Toyota releases a new teaser trailer of the FT-86.

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Scion FR-S Concept (Toyota FT-86 Transformed ‘again’) Walk-Around Videos

The 2011 New York Auto Show has brought us some interesting vehicles, one of them being the Scion FR-S concept which is an evolution of the Toyota FT-86 that we first saw just before the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. Since then, Toyota has tweaked the design over and over making us enthusiasts truly impatient and ready to see this bad-boy on the road finally. Two new walk-around-videos have been released showing many of the highlighted design cues of the new Scion FR-S concept. If the production version is anything like what we see here, then Toyota may have a winner in my book. Please don’t fu*k this up Toyota! Enjoy the videos below!

Scion Teases FT-86 II (FR-S FT-S) Concept Car for 2011 New York Auto Show

The much anticipated official reveal of the upcoming Toyota FT-86 (FT-86 II, FR-S, FT-S) production vehicle is starting to take a different direction because Scion is now teasing what appears to be the FT-86 concept slated to wear a Scion badge at the 2011 New York Auto Show this month.

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Could the Toyota FT-86 Bring Driving Excitement Back To Toyota?

Don’t you love automotive rumors especially when it is one that fulfills that long-time dream of your favorite supercar making its way to production and into your driveway? Sure, it’s great to daydream from time to time even if that supercar happens to be the return of the Toyota Supra, not in the form of the Lexus LFA though.

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Toyota FT-86/FR-S Will Carry Scion Name w/$25,000 Price Tag

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the new Toyota FT-86 will be badged as a Scion with a price starting around $25,000 when it goes to the market. The name of the vehicle has been reported to be ‘FR-S’ will get a 2.5-liter version of the Subaru 4-cylinder boxer engine powering the rear wheels in the U.S. with other markets will likely get a 2.0-liter version.

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Toyota-Subaru Coupe Prototype Spotted and New Renderings Surface

I am not even sure why I bother posting the images of what some have claimed to be the Toyota FT-86 Prototype. This thing looks nothing like the images we posted last week. Obviously it looks more like a Subaru WRX and could only be a test mule for the new engine/platform that will be used in the joint venture of Toyota and Subaru’s FT-86. However, I do like the new rendered images of the Subaru version of this new coupe shown below.

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Toyota FT-86 Concept Revealed Before 2009 Tokyo Motor Show

Oh how I remember the days of the Toyota Corolla AE86. The new Toyota FT-86 Concept, recently revealed to the world, actually makes me think of the AE86, not because of the body code similarities (AE86 vs. FT-86, but offering an affordable rear-wheel-drive sports coupe. It is about time Toyota offered something exciting. They have not had anything exciting since the Supra and maybe the Celica GT-S, but that’s a whole other story.

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