'Spiritual Toyota AE86 Replacement'

[sigma]

Pinched from Club4AG:

A 2+2 front engine, rear wheel drive sports car is planned to be the sprititual successor to the AE86 Toyota Sprinter Trueno/Corolla Levin, unbelievably at a price cheaper than the discontinued Toyota MR-S…



Full article here

Sounds too good to be true... What do you think?

[MR2SIK]

Theres been various articles about a 'new' AE86 floating around for a while. Wouldnt there be something on the toyota website?
Toyotas of late have been soft, anything remotley sporty has a Lexus badge on it, and Lexus = $$$

I'm gonna vote bs

[DJ]

It looks like a boat tbh (or a Audi A3).

Blerg, horrible.

[AE86less]

I like it (specially with the black bumpers).

I'd like a 1600 or 1800 though. I'd buy one if i had 2,000,000.00 JPY( = 21,215.19 NZD )

[solitaire]

The engine model is listed there... makes it slightly more plausable... if they made it i would buy it new... heres hoping eh?

[Grrrrrrr!]

The 2nzfe is 1.3L, so i guess they probably mean a tweaked 1nzfe (1.5L)

If they do its a fairly heavily undersquare motor so wont have the reviness of a 4age which is part of the heart and soul of the Levin/Trueno line IMO.

Only time will tell i guess.

my money is on <1yr before someone does a 4ag(z/t)e conversion on one if they ever make it to market

[DJ]

That pic doesnt look too bad tho.

Just get rid of the really short boot (ie like the old 86 hatch) and two tone paint style

[strx7]

that pic from the rear looks very similar to the 2000 shape celica

[escortman]

Theres been various articles about a 'new' AE86 floating around for a while. Wouldnt there be something on the toyota website?
Toyotas of late have been soft, anything remotley sporty has a Lexus badge on it, and Lexus = $$$

I'm gonna vote bs

arnt the sportevo camrys gettin a v6 supercharged donk to fight falcon commodore

[solitaire]

...

Surely they will make some uber beams goodness to go under the bonnet...

Shall i start a trd supercharger group buy thread now or wait?

[deaf_rattle]

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[groupagt4]

i think its really ugly.it doesnt resemble the 86 at all and the looks is half the reason i like the car in the first place

[sigma]

I'm starting to think its just japanese photochop propaganda.....

[barryogen]

I like it, most of the cars these days have to have large bulbous bumpers for passenger impact, and so it'll never really look like the original.

I'd certainly trade my car on it if that price stays close.

[frost]

why do i want to call it a mazda?

[barryogen]

why do i want to call it a mazda?

dunno, to me it looks more like an Altezza thats been smacked in the nose, and a ~2001/2 celica shoved on the back end.

[frost]

if only they bring back 80's pop up head lights,

[rolla_fxgt]

The 2nzfe is 1.3L, so i guess they probably mean a tweaked 1nzfe (1.5L)

But reading other stuff on the same site especially the supposed new honda crx which is supposed to be a hybrid 1.3l turbo makes that engine make sense, becasue i'm guessing there will be a hybrid version of the new ae86, & a hybrid turbo would be way cool & cheap to insure & register if they bring in those propsed new laws to make hybrids cheaper & therefore more appealing.

At least this propsed design looks more realistic then the one in the other thread which looks like a photoshoped version of the new crx.

[Mr Revhead]

if its got any NZ engine in it, itll be a POS.

[DJ]

if only they bring back 80's pop up head lights,

if only they bring back 80's pop up head lights,

if only they bring back 80's pop up head lights,

QFT 3-Combos.