The Lexus LFA may be the ultimate sports coupe at this year's Tokyo Motor Show but unless you or your 'daddy' have a wealthy bank account and at the same feel comfortable in spending $375k on non-exotic brand name (not that we'd have a problem if the car's worth it, but just saying...), the one to watch out for is the Toyota FT-86 Concept coupe. Jointly developed with Subaru, the sleek looking FT-86 can seat up to four people and has a front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout.Under the bonnet of the 4,160mm long sports coupe is a 2.0-liter boxer engine sourced from Subaru that is linked to a six-speed manual gearbox. Toyota has not released any performance figures yet but it is believed that the naturally aspirated four-pot may be tweaked to produce close to 200 horsepower.
Toyota and Subaru's parent company Fuji Heavy Ind. plan to release a production version of the FT-86 concept onto the market in late 2011. According to an earlier statement from Toyota chief engineer Tetsuya Tada, the production model's sticker price will be in the $20,000 range.
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this car should make Lexus LFA itself to cry. Peace of art! definetly bright future coupe.
lets say - welcome back japanic 'ford puma' reincarnation :)
beautiful car
Love to see earlier and love to see a topless/spyder version!
beautiful car maybe future lexus gs 500 coupe f series
nice car indeed ! it is about time toyota makes a sporty car again , cuz that scion tc is far from nice looking and is more a joke and the celica was toyota's last best car as far as looks and performance ! it took Hyundai bringing out a slew of hot cars to motivate toyota , thats something else. I hope toyota has worked out its many recalls so it can at least be a few steps closer to being as good as Hyundai is now
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