Check out Toyota Australia’s slick interactive 86 origins-to-production website, featuring cutting edge HTML5 programming which interacts with your user input as you scroll through the page.

Monday July 9, 2012 11:33

Check out this excellent promo commercial of the 2013 Subaru BRZ. Coming out of Subaru Canada, it’s one of the best ad spots for the BRZ yet!

The sales numbers for the BRZ and FR-S for the U.S. market are in for the period ending June 2012.

Through two months of sales, BRZ has sold 1,089 units and FR-S 2,770 units.

Check out the monthly and yearly breakdowns after the jump.

Nino Karotta shares with us his epic cross-continent test drive of the Scion FR-S / 86 from Barcelona, Spain to Budapest, Hungary. Here is what he had to say about his trip and video.

We’ve been shooting from dawn till dusk for four days, taking the Toyota GT86 (which you’ll lovingly call Scion FR-S) from Barcelona to Budapest, via the most sinuous roads possible. Then we’ve spent another day filming it on a racetrack in Hungary, pitching it against my angry AE86 race car. Then we’ve spent the best part of three weeks editing the footage, till we’ve learnt to hate every single frame of it. I think it’s the most beautiful film we’ve ever made. It must be, because the FR-S is a hugely important car.

Not because it’s cheap and tail-happy. Neither of those traits are evident at first. The FR-S is important because this is the car your kids will rice and race to oblivion, learning to heal-and-toe and oversteer the last drops of whatever petrol-replacement cars will be burning a decade from now. This is likely to be the sports car of the last driving generation, so take your time to get to know it. Resist the temptation to skip to the second half with all the hoonage. Please lean back and enjoy. Feel free to share it on.

Click below for the video!

Thursday July 5, 2012 14:10

Great road test review from Autocar on the GT86 (86 / FR-S).

Wednesday July 4, 2012 10:49

Insideline has put together this nice walkaround tour of the FR-S suspension.

Tuesday July 3, 2012 00:29

The North American BRZ and FR-S models do not come rear fog light activated, unlike the JDM and European Toyota 86 model. But not having a certain feature JDM feature on the NA spec cars have never stopped our members, so here’s a look at the rear fog light activated on a US spec BRZ.

Check out this video of Scion Racing’s Ken Gushi meeting with Toyota Racing’s Joey Logano (NASCAR driver) at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina to give him a drifting lesson in a factory Scion FR-S and the GReddy Racing Drift FR-S.