Around the Autoblog virtual office, the Toyota GT-86 is among the most eagerly awaited new models this year. So when we spotted a report in AutoBild that Tetsuya Tada, the chief engineer of the car, has confirmed that a convertible is coming, we got excited.

Of course, we're tempering our excitement with the knowledge that the 2013 Scion FR-S we're getting here in North America isn't the Toyota version. It may be the same actual car save for the brightwork, but when it comes to market positioning and all that stuff, Scion has differing objectives than the parent brand.

While we have heard rumors of a convertible before, they came in the context of the third GT-86 offspring, the Subaru BRZ. If a convertible version of the car ever does see the light of day here in the States, though, we're certainly not going to quibble over its badges.


http://www.autoblog.com/2012/03/01/t...droptop-ft-86/

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Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeexy

 

That isnt bad looking. But they always look better with the top down and not so much with it up. But if it were a hardtop then it would be better.

 

now twin turbo it already lol

 

Nice. Move over, Miata.

 

no room

 

congrats TOYOTA! very nice!

Is it just me or is Toyota becoming the NEW "old honda"??
(the way honda used to be, with sporty, innovative, not dull cars like they are now)

 

toyota used to be the same way... so glad times are changing from cool to bland and back to cool

 

it looks like an aston martin

 

just to reiterate my above point

http://www.ballerride.com/2009/03/01...y-convertible/

just saw this and was like thats the droptop frs haha

 

Hubba hubba! As if the 86 wasn't hot enough already...

 

I'd say that Mazda is the "New Honda."

They have a few SUVs, but they've concentrated their efforts in making their cars terrific, with attention to detail on the driving experience from top to bottom.

Toyota is the new GM: A large, full range automaker with enough petty cash laying around dump into side projects that are a gamble.

It's tempting to think of GM as just the dying gasp of GM that collapsed in 2009, and the new, still struggling rising from the ashes GM. I'm thinking the GM of the 50's, 60's, early 70's. The GM that would try new things, adapt new ideas from other parts of the world... sometimes they worked out, sometimes they didn't. For instance:

Corvette: the Miata before there was a Miata (an interpretation of the British roadster that has the great mechanical advantage of not being British!) - with a fiberglass body, no less!
Corvair: rear engined, air cooled Sedan inspired by the VW Type 1.
Vega: all aluminum engine in a lightweight car
Bel Air: Fuel Injection arrives to the mass market
Tempest: Front engine and rear transaxle with a torque tube to open up passenger space and balance weight.
Cutlass: all aluminum turbo-charged engine.
Toronado: mass NA Market Front Wheel Drive

Even into the 80s, we still saw a few flashes of the former GM
Active Cylinder Management (V-4-6-
Fiero - an economical mid-engine two-seater using off the shelf components.

In many cases, the ideas were simply not workable. in others, such as the Fiero, were better executed by other companies later (See MR2).

Again, sometimes they were successes, sometimes they weren't. They had a tendency to put things on the market that weren't quite polished enough, almost like Beta products. These sometimes had dire effects on the market (turning consumers off to diesel engines, for instance).

 

won't hit US shores....

 

still a nice car to drool over

 

From CarandDriver.com:

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Link to article is here.

 

Looks nice but even if the covertible was out now i would still get normal one. Not big on covertible

 

Same here, I'd imagine weight and price would both be higher even if it is equally rigid.