Updated: Toyota GT86 - facts from Japan (Handmade and only 1000 units/yr - DEBUNKED)

[Navi]

Regular waiting times are 12 - 16 weeks here in The Netherlands..(for cars like these, maybe even longer)

[torquemada]

Originally Posted by JIMs|a|MILLION

source? so far the belief is that their being built in the same factory....

sauce called irony

[john157]

There is a new video of the new gt86. It is of a dutch site.
I don't know if it's already on this forum.
http://www.autojunk.nl/2011/11/gt-86-van-toyota-is-hier

[yayforaddison]

Originally Posted by john157

There is a new video of the new gt86. It is of a dutch site.
I don't know if it's already on this forum.
http://www.autojunk.nl/2011/11/gt-86-van-toyota-is-hier

I'm sorry but if you don't know if its already no this forum, then why don't you look? Its been posted at least 4 times now today alone.

[phenoyz]

Originally Posted by VenomRush

im about to cry

edit: just had a thought, toyota might only do 1k per year.. but subie might make tons and tons of them

if thats the case i was leaning towards the brz, but the rarity of getting the toyota will want me to get that one...scion here i come

[Guff]

Aren't both the LFA and ISF trannys Sequential Single-Clutch Boxes with the TC Lock? So couldn't they say it was derived from either (more so towards the LFA because both are 6-Speeds)?

Or am I missing something?

[Matador]

Originally Posted by Guff

Aren't both the LFA and ISF trannys Sequential Single-Clutch Boxes with the TC Lock? So couldn't they say it was derived from either (more so towards the LFA because both are 6-Speeds)?

Or am I missing something?

ISF = TCL auto

LFA = automated sequential manual

[Dark]

If the tranny is based on the one in IS-F, it will be the same one in GS. Mass production = cheaper.

[Guff]

Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1

ISF = TCL auto

LFA = automated sequential manual

Ah, I see.

[Dark]

Originally Posted by Guff

Aren't both the LFA and ISF trannys Sequential Single-Clutch Boxes with the TC Lock? So couldn't they say it was derived from either (more so towards the LFA because both are 6-Speeds)?

Or am I missing something?

IS-F tranny is 8 speed.

[MrVito]

Originally Posted by Dark

IS-F tranny is 8 speed.

He said "based on" the LFA trans, a very broad and vague statement. That's also assuming the translator has a solid grasp on engineering language in both Japanese and English.

[Ikaros]

I have to agree with you guys on the 1000 units per year being a translation error. The translator might have heard 1 million in Japanese and translated it as 1 thousand in English. This isn't weird at all, since 1 million in Japanese is actually 10,000 in numeric form so he might have got confused when converting it into English.

That being said, it is true that many of the natural disaster that have been happening in Asia might have an impact on production but Toyota city located south of the main island Honshu, while the actual epicentre of the earthquake is on the north end of the island. So the actual production plants would be affected minimally.

[Giccin]

Thata boy Leeky! WORK IT SEXY POLAR BEAR. MOAR.

Lol Leeky has the direct sources now!! No salt needed.

[Guff]

Originally Posted by Dark

IS-F tranny is 8 speed.

I meant the LFA and the GT86 are both 6-Speeds.