Toyota FT-86 II concept
Toyota unveiled a new edition of the FT-86 sportscar concept at the Geneva Motor Show. The car is ought to being back Toyota’s long lost sporty spirit. The concept measures 4,235mm long, 1,795mm wide and 1,270mm high, with a long, 2,570mm wheelbase.
Toyota says the new sportscar will use a free-revving boxer petrol engine with a compact and lightweight six-speed manual transmission. With a front-engine/rear-wheel drive configuration, this gives the car lively, accessible performance that is easy to harness and enjoy.
Toyota’s new thing, based on the FT-86 II concept it's showing in Geneva, is having multiple versions and skins of a concept car before finally unveiling the production model.
Like the LFA, the first version of the FT-86 concept was a bit bland. The most interesting thing about it—aesthetically speaking, anyway—was the color, which a Japanese engineer said was the “traditional red color of a Japanese monkey’s backside.” The paint on this second iteration of the FT-86 concept must have been inspired by a goth Japanese monkey. One Mean Monkey
The narrow, squinty headlights remain, although they flow into fenders more peaked than the original’s. Aside from the updated shape of concept 2.0, Toyota didn’t have much to share on the car. It did tell us that this version of the concept is 166.7 inches long—with a 101.2-inch wheelbase—70.7 inches wide, and 50 inches tall. (For those that hated math class, that means this car should get about 200 hp.)
After the second LFA concept debuted, we were really hoping the production shape would more closely mimic that version than the first concept. Toyota says that European sales will begin in 2012.
Toyota says the FT-86 II is 4,235mm long, 1,795mm wide and 1,270mm high, with a 2,570mm wheelbase. As per usual FT-86, the Toyota sports coupe showcases a long bonnet and swept-back cabin design, inspired by the original Toyota 2000GT of the Sixties.
Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor Corporation, said upon the FT-86 II announcement,
Official engine specification are yet to be announced for the production version, but Toyota promises it will offer a ‘free-revving’ small capacity boxer engine, matched to a six-speed manual transmission.
