Remember the Midget GT86Q? It was built by Gazoo Racing engineers and the team took this mini 86 for some drifting at Japan’s D1 Grand Prix (D1GP) pro drift series.

See if it makes the cut at the D1GP! 🙂

The FR-S and BRZ have been named to Car and Driver’s annual 2013 10Best List. Here’s hoping that this is the start of many successive years on the list for our favorite small sports car!

Read what C&D has to say about the car inside.

Subaru of America will get 2,000 extra BRZs over the next four months as it tries to keep up with demand for the new coupe.

Full story inside.

Hotchkis takes their project/development FR-S to Buttonwillow for the Global Time Attack Super Lap Battle finals, clocking in a respectable 2:07.989. They show why it’s helpful for tuners to race.

Have a look at the Rocket Bunny Subaru BRZ that Bee Racing has been working on.

If you haven’t yet seen on our forums, check out the first electric FR-S/86/GT86 build by Japanese electric propulsion specialist TGMY. In place of the 2.0-litre boxer petrol engine, the FT86EV uses a 75kW electric motor drawing power from a rear-mounted 37kWh lithium polymer battery pack.

More details and a video inside.

Motortrend drives the HKS supercharged Subaru BRZ in Japan. Here are their thoughts…

Adding to the constantly churning rumormill regarding a future Subaru BRZ STI model is this info from Autoexpress claiming that tweaks to the naturally aspirated boxer engine will yield between 220bhp and 230bhp.

Full details and discussions inside.