miatarocket

FT86club has posted pics of the just unveiled Toyota FT-86 G Sport Concept from the Tokyo Auto Salon.

Pics: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=306

First turbo'd FT-86 concept or model ever shown.

Jhove

Looks like a GT-R replica, nice but I am bias though cause I am a Nissan fan.

Simple_Sauce

I feel like they took styling cues from every popular japanese sports car on the market, but I want one soooo bad.

bsmith100

Looks nice! It's too bad that Honda doesn't have a response for this car. A cheaper version of the S2000 would work for that.

ghettoSi

SUPREME WANT!

Agent00J

Partly why I'm not feeling it that much. It's as if it lost some of its identity. It looks like a bit of everything at the moment.

rarrior23

Agreed, looks like a Frankenstein of everything else that's out there. Definitely not impressed.

bsmith100

I don't care about how it looks. It is RWD, lightweight, and supposedly the pricing will start in the low 20k dollar range. That is tough to beat, and there really isn't really any competition at that price for a lightweight rear wheel drive car.

rarrior23

You can get a cheap 240 and put that kind of money in to it and it will be relatively the same thing and will look a lot better, IMO. I just don't like the styling of it, looks like a CF of every other Japanese made sports car offered today.

bsmith100

Look how long it has been since the Nissan 240 has been imported to this country. That is why it is cool that they are taking a chance and offering a low priced, lightweight RWD car.

Are you telling me that you don't think that it is impressive that they are taking that chance? So what if it looks like many other cars?

bsmith100

You are going to have search far and wide to find an earlier model Nissan 240 that isn't completely trashed. If you manage to locate one, are you telling me you would want to spend 20k dollars to fix up a 15 year old car?

FormulaJDM

My ITR will probably go away for this.

Agent00J

I'm looking forward to the FT-86 and the 216a. I like the concepts for both those cars.

But it's this G Sport Concept that I was initially referring to. The specs sound nice, but the car looks like generic crap to me.

rarrior23

Why not get an S14 for just a few more grand so you get a car that isn't as trashed? I'm not saying I would want to put $20,000 into an old car rather than just buy a brand new one, but it's not like they're aren't options out there for a RWD sports car under $20,000. Sure you won't have as nice of performance but it's still a RWD sports car that you can turn in to something you like rather than take what the manufacturer gives you.

miatarocket

Here's a neat new GPS based technology that'll be in this car:

http://www.ft86club.com/?p=94

Something called "GPS track day"

bsmith100

I don't know about this. It is nothing new, because racing Data Acquisition units have had this GPS lap mapping feature for a while. It isn't really that expensive, 300 or 400 dollars. The difference is that you would have to download the data to a computer.

This system where you can only view it on a PlayStation seems a little too gimmicky. Although the ability to actually view your car as it drove the lap is kind of cool.

james_ls

Looks like the LF-A and GTR had a cheap love child that they gave up for adoption.

conekiller98

I want one...

McLovin

Dope car. If this ever gets released I will definitely consider getting one.

THE LORD OF CHAOS

iTrader: (2)

meh, not impressed...

the accelerator pedal will probably stick anyways causing countless fatalities while idiots are trying to drift in this thing anyways.

SuicideSlide

Let's see.... The awful sound of a subie, the blandness of a Toyota and the looks of a Hyundai genesis. Yup sign me up for the future corolla.

miatarocket

Here it is in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfhFvnTfsi8

Looks pretty accurate.

bsmith100

Yeah it is pretty cool. Although there was barely any "data" present except for the speed and the timer. It looks like the only data it actually provided was the GPS coordinates in respect to time. Then the Grand Turismo game just ran through its normal replay mode using the GPS coordinates to figure out where to place the car on the track. From that it could also calculate the speed. However, notice that was the only data that was displayed.

If you went with one of the Data Acquisition systems for racing, like a MyChron, for about 400 bucks you would be able to download all of this, plus a huge amount of other data. So if they (Toyota and Sony) can do this, it probably won't be long until some guy writes an open source patch for one of the popular PC racing simulator games. Then you could download the data from your GPS data acquisition system to the PC, and the game could also render a replay of the lap(s) as driven.

bsmith100

These are the types of data acquisition systems I was talking about.



http://www.aimsports.com

Most of them except the older models have the GPS feature.

I8Stang

cool link.