FR-S / FT-86 test in blick.ch (with new pics)

[Krampus]

do we already had this article from Switzerland?

http://www.blick.ch/auto/neuheiten/s...-celica-186716

Google translated text:

Project manager Tetsuya Tada had done in the past couple years, all hands. Together with Subaru, Toyota has developed a sports coupe that offers 40,000 francs from affordable driving fun and as an image carrier to serve beyond the hybrid success.

The appearance of the new Celica with a flat front, low roofline and crunchy at the rear can also folienbeklebten prototypes with the project name FT-86 can be seen. "He is even flatter than a Porsche Cayman or a Ferrari 430," Tada notes proudly.

When driving, shows the FT-86, that he can be a real sports car. The seats are contoured closely and comfortably. The steering wheel feels good in the hand and the gear shift is reminiscent of the six-speed joystick for the Mazda MX-5. The cockpit is built around the driver. The speed is displayed digitally and analogue and shines in the middle of the instruments by Porsche-style, a large tachometer.

As for the drive, Toyota refuses to conditions surprisingly timid sports car from the window: the two-liter boxer engine with 200 hp of Subaru but provides a valuable look flat front, but offers no Turbo, the car could lend wings. For now, goes on sale next summer, only this variant planned. But under scrutiny, both a 250-hp version and a roadster.

Is Toyota out of luck?

Nearly half a year after the tsunami and severe nuclear accident in Japan, Toyota once again raises a natural disaster off the track. At present, approximately 150,000 vehicles will not be built because the production is from several suppliers and assembly plants in Thailand under water. This has an impact on production in Japan, where the works are currently busy only 70 to 80%. In addition, Toyota has continued to struggle with the strong yen. Thus the operating profit in the second quarter of the melted end of March 2012 to the current fiscal year by about a third to around 840 million francs.

A few interesting new photos:

[ForReal-Someday]

We most certainly have not seen this article before. Thank you for posting it! Translation wizards GO!

[dalli]

HUH?

Vorerst ist zum Verkaufsstart im nächsten Sommer nur diese eine Variante geplant. Aber auf dem Prüfstand sind sowohl eine 250-PS-Variante als auch ein Roadster.

HUHUHUHUHUH????

ROADSTER? 250 PS?

[Longhorn248]

Translated, but it's not the best with regards to grammar. Anyone want to post up the pictures? They don't look like anything new though...

Project manager Tetsuya Tada had done in the past couple years, all hands. Together with Subaru, Toyota has developed a sports coupe that offers 40,000 francs from affordable driving fun and as an image carrier to serve beyond the hybrid success.

The appearance of the new Celica with a flat front, low roofline and crunchy at the rear can also folienbeklebten prototypes with the project name FT-86 can be seen. "He is even flatter than a Porsche Cayman or a Ferrari 430," Tada notes proudly.

When driving, shows the FT-86, that he can be a real sports car. The seats are contoured closely and comfortably. The steering wheel feels good in the hand and the gear shift is reminiscent of the six-speed joystick for the Mazda MX-5. The cockpit is built around the driver. The speed is displayed digitally and analogue and shines in the middle of the instruments by Porsche-style, a large tachometer.

As for the drive, Toyota refuses to conditions surprisingly timid sports car from the window: the two-liter boxer engine with 200 hp of Subaru but provides a valuable look flat front, but offers no Turbo, the car could lend wings. For now, goes on sale next summer, only this variant planned. But under scrutiny, both a 250-hp version and a roadster.

Is Toyota out of luck?

Nearly half a year after the tsunami and severe nuclear accident in Japan, Toyota once again raises a natural disaster off the track. At present, approximately 150,000 vehicles will not be built because the production is from several suppliers and assembly plants in Thailand under water. This has an impact on production in Japan, where the works are currently busy only 70 to 80%. In addition, Toyota has continued to struggle with the strong yen. Thus the operating profit in the second quarter of the melted end of March 2012 to the current fiscal year by about a third to around 840 million francs.

[dominican]

look at the pics! there are more interior shots in there! Also some shots of some opposite lock.

[ydooby]

Cool! Tetsuya Tada fiddling with the interior. Ugly tapes all over though.



Another shot at the engine bay:

[Ikaros]

Wow now that he mentions it they can't really make a lot of these cars. I hope they find some kind if way to crank as much out as possible under tees circumstances.

[torquemada]

40.000 chf are 44.088 US-$

[tripjammer]

Originally Posted by ydooby

Cool! Tetsuya Tada fiddling with the interior. Ugly tapes all over though.



Another shot at the engine bay:

The rear view mirror looks tight!

[Abflug]

WOW! Thank You!

Love the seatdesign with the "honeycomb oldskool" T´s which are already in the front mesh!

40 000 sfr are about 32 000 €

BUT

future 250 PS ver. on the dynamometer (?)/ test station right now sounds great!

[ydooby]

Don't think we've ever had close-up pics of the headlight and taillight until now:

[ForReal-Someday]

Originally Posted by Abflug

WOW! Thank You!

Love the seatdesign with the "honeycomb oldskool" T´s which are already in the front mesh!

40 000 sfr are about 32 000 €

BUT

future 250 PS ver. on the dynamometer (?)/ test station right now sounds great!

That seems a tad expensive.

[ydooby]

Originally Posted by dalli

HUH?

Vorerst ist zum Verkaufsstart im nächsten Sommer nur diese eine Variante geplant. Aber auf dem Prüfstand sind sowohl eine 250-PS-Variante als auch ein Roadster.

HUHUHUHUHUH????

ROADSTER? 250 PS?

Yeah good to know that a drop-top and a more powerful version are planned, assuming that the journalist didn't just make these up on his own.

I hope the 250ps version stays NA somehow but I may be dreaming too much.

[Dark]

I actually like that headlight housing so much.