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Toyota GT 86 vs AE86 review - Auto Express

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

We bring the Toyota GT 86 face-to-face with the eighties thriller to see if it lives up to the legend. Read more tommyistommy: I want to love the FRS, I really do. but that motor just is lame in every sense of the word. It sounds horrible, it has a massive dead spot in the powerband at the worst point and it doesn't really have rewarding race to the redline after the dead spot. Its supposed to be a car that isn't about the motor but it becomes the focus of the car for me. Had the gt86/frs/brz come out in a hatchback with a high revving inline 4 I think it would have fared far better. When the FRS came out, I was driving a mr2 spyder and 95 h22a swapped prelude. The FRS seemed to tick both boxes, it is a good looking small car with rwd and great handling. I wanted one until I drove one. My 20 year old honda had more power and a much better sound at every rpm (I have dyno and drag slips to confirm the difference my butt dyno felt, about 20 more hp to the wheels and it traps 8-9 mph higher) but as well as my prelude drives, nothing compares to rwd handling. I didn't feel as though the frs was an upgrade from the mr2 spyder I was driving at the time to quench my rwd thirst. It wasn't any quicker, didn't handle any sharper and had similarly bad interior. I also wasn't a fan of the lack of sunroof/targa/convertible option. I ended up selling my mr2 spyder simply because I got an offer of double what I paid for it and I picked up a 1987 mr2. The 4age is more rewarding to drive in every sense than the f20a plus nothing compares to the analog feel of the aw11 so I am currently happy. I hope the frs/gt86/brz survive long enough to have some of my personal shortcomings addressed but until then I'll stick to driving ancient cars until someone gets it right.
Date: 2022-04-17

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Comments and reviews: 4

Bojan
I, to this day, refuse to acknowledge the GT86 as an -- successor. Because it fails the biggest thing or me that the AE86 had, it was still a Corolla.
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Neill
Wonderful review and you handled the gt absolutely lovely through some of those corners. Ae looked a little bit more of a handful to control.
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David
4: 00 I don't think you meant -communative-. Does nobody edit the script or review the presentation to see if you are making any sense?
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Ilyaas
AHHH I just started Initial D and have been planning on getting a GT86/FR-S/BRZ for a while longer. This just locked it in for me: )
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