many thanks!

didn´t read all the leaks, hadn´t had the time for all of them coming in this fast :-/

The greatest scan to come to the forums!

You might be correct, it's going into the driver side on the JDM car. I guess they will have to re-route it to the driver side in U.S. model.

This is just great, the monkey on my shoulder has just got a lot heavier...

I hope the dash nav/radio is a standard 2 DIN, i'll just fit an Android-based unit, a OBD bluetooth thingy and have all the info about the engine, track logging, music and movies etc... and it will be AWESOME!

There's just too much to comment but about the weels, the 7.2 kg ones are 16"? What tyre size will they fit?

^ 205/55-16 Sir.

Nice catch, Torque converter lockup, 100ms shift times and rev matching downshift FTW... for you auto guys anyway :)

Thanks, there are R888, R1R and Neova AD08 in that size so I'll probably stick with 16" inches with some light wheels (alleggerita?)

Hard to tell with the quality of the images but the 7.2kg ones are 18x8 and probably a forged wheel option which toyota will likely price at 4k extra or so.

Either way since 16s fit you can switch to them regardless :)

**wonders if the TRD monoblocks will clear the 16"s**

I'm wondering if the American versions will even have the tubing which directs sound to the cabin. There are already changes that have to be made for the car to be LHD, and I'm sure many of you remember hearing a while back that we may get a more aggresive sounding exhaust, since we (or at least, 49 of our states) have less strict requirements for automotive sound control.

I'm sure I'm just thinking aloud here, or in type as it may be, but if they were already considering a louder cat-back, why bother redesigning the sound piping from the intake tract to the cabin when it can be left out altogether while still giving you a similar net effect on sound? I'm in all likelihood completely wrong though, just spitballing.

Didn't the scan say they required specific 17s or the 18s? I can't remember. Hell we might not have that option anyways so I'll worry about all that if I ever need to. I'm sure the standard high spec brakes will be perfectly fine for all street and track use anyways unless you run 300+hp.... Then you might want bigger heatsinks for the track.

I wouldn't fit TRD brakes anyway, too expensive and after all, I live 100 km or so from the Brembo factory near Milan...

I think we'll just need to fit better trackpads and maybe braided lines and high performance oil, the usual stuff.

One of the good thing of a light, not too powerful car is that it's light on brakes and tyres.
The Clio 3 RS with the same power and weight has the Brembo as standard by the way, so do other cars like the Cooper S JCW, the Grande Punto Abarth Essesse...
The stock "junior" Brembo 4 pots are becoming very popular and inexpensive.

Does any of the literature discuss gear ratios? Trying to confirm what I read somewhere on the interwebs, that the FT86s 6MT was also from the IS250 (makes perfect sense)...if that is the case, here are the ratios and top speed in each gear:

1st: 3.79 / 39 mph
2nd: 2.28 / 66 mph
3rd: 1.52 / 98 mph
4th: 1.19 / 134 mph
5th: 1.00 / 150 mph
6th: 0.79 / 189 mph
(R: 3.47)
FD: 3.73

LOL at the 6th gear speed..that will be good for fuel consumption...or for crazy people that'll fit mega-turbos!

Lol, that's all I noticed followed by... I can't figure out what any of this means :hitcomputer:

lol, I'll take that :P