First 86 Long Beach Weekend pics.
 

Hello people. The Trip was AWESOME, and so here are some pics, everyone I met was great, a lot of cool, car loving people.





Here is the schedule.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

6pm - 10pm: Scion Welcome Reception (Located Poolside, Hyatt Long Beach)
(Free alcohol, time to meet all the other 86ers! around 60 came)



Friday, April 6, 2012

9am - 3pm: Scion HQ Activities, please meet in lobby promptly at 9am.
(Met Jack, tour Scion and Toyota HQ, then headed over to Museum to drive FR-S)
3pm - 6pm: Free time

6pm - 7pm: Scion ****tail Hour (Beacon Rotunda, Hyatt Long Beach)

7pm - 10pm: Scion FR-S First 86 Dinner with Special Guests (Beacon Ballroom, Hyatt Long Beach)

Saturday, April 7, 2012

11am - 5pm: Formula Drift VIP Event, please meet in lobby promptly at 11am.




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The Hyatt, nice hotel.

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Welcome reception, they had cool light projectors

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our wristbands and VIP lounge pass for Formula Drift

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Friday morning, getting on the buses

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Arrival at Scion HQ

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They pulled a LFA around quick and revved it. awesome.

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Me and Jack!

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At the museum, 4 FR-S's to drive, two autos and two manuals, everyone got to drive. A short course around the block, we had some fun, also there were some iQ's we drove, some iQ drag racing ensued :D

from what i saw, everyone had smiles on their faces after driving the FR-S. :thumbsup:

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inside the museum

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Headed over to the FormulaD qualifiers at about 4 pm

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Maclaren just hanging out

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Martin with the ladies

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Scion FR-S booth

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I found a lady too :happy0180:

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Fredric Aasbos tC

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Scion FR-S Roadster. Looks like Speed Racer, we liked the black Scion badges

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Russ found some ladies :respect:

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Gran Turismo 5, contest to see who could get best lap time, top 3 times got free copy of the game. Steering was super difficult

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Friday night dinner with Jack and various important people

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Me with Scion drivers Ken Gushi, Fredric Aasbo, and Tony Angelo, some cool dudes.

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LOTS of SWAG.

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Scion VIP lounge at FormulaD

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Roadster lined up with other Scions

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The Gush!

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Working on the car during the break.

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double calipers on the rear rotors

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Me and Gushi :thumbup: hes a cool guy

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Fredrick Aasbo


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86ers swapping pics/videos Saturday night

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AWESOME event, Scion was great, and talking with Jack Hollis and the other 86ers was fantastic.

Everyone loved driving the FR-S, everyone who drove it was impressed with the smooth automatic, the interior is nice, steering wheel is comfortable, quick acceleration, had a few people try drifts, but they forgot to turn of traction control :broken heart: i have yet to talk to someone who didn't love driving the car, we all want to drive it more. thats what the FR-S does..leaves you wanting more.

damn, nice

thanks for the great pics. Looking forward to driving impressions.

thanks for the pics man!!! can't wait to see what else the weekend holds for yah!!! i'll be down there tomorrow....can't wait!!!:happy0180:

Great pics!!!! looks like a lot fun!! i'll be at the event tomorrow too :D

look out for a tall dude w/ his drift japan tee shirt on.:happy0180:

Judging from that crowd, the average age of the FR-S buyer will be way north of 25, should be good for insurance rates!

Thanks for the pics! I was hoping somebody would do this for us. I've actually been to the Long Beach Grand Prix before. It was awesome.

Looks like you guys are having a blast!

Thanks OP for the pics. Seems like you guys are having a time of your life. Enjoy.

The event looks like a blast. Thanks for the update! One question: which one of you knocked over the cone? Lol.

Looks like fun Titus, thanks for the pics

Great post. In my opinion the open top FR-86 looks amazing!!! Has some really classy lines. Its going my personal ''cool cars folder''

Damn the FR-S roadster was crazy looking! Good pics. We saw stuff we never seen before!

Looks like a lot of fun, thanks for posting these pictures!

Everyone loved it. its exactly how the journalists have described. Everyone wants MORE FR-S. its fantastic

the world may never know ;)

wish you took some pics of the food too

haha I'm a bit of a foodie XD

nice pics

cant wait for everyones review of the car

Nice!

I would really like to drive the iQ. It looks like a PowerWheel for adults :D

I liked the IQ. For what it is it was a solid car. Feels much bigger on the inside than on the outside. Its cute in a quarky way. Base price may be an issue but I would buy a used one for one of my kids. Not sure I'd drive one myself. One of the other 86ers suggested they should give awaycone with every FRS as a daily driver. I agree.

It would make a good automobile soccer car.:bellyroll:

Looks like alot of fun man glad your enjoying yourself!

And your right, the roadster 86 looks like the mach 5! haha

Nice! Enjoy it all! What a cool experience... will look for you on the live stream? hehe

Thanks for the pics. Looked like an awesome event.

i liked how the 86 roadster looked too :) but glad you;re having fun and thanks for the pics.

Talk about some VIP treatment!! :thumbsup: :happy0180:

I like Scion because they do these things, but can't get leather/alcantara and HID's in the car?! C'mon!!

Lol anyways.... looks hella fun

The mclaren is parked in front of our hotel right now!!

What a cool event put on by Scion. Subaru got outclassed on this one.

Good idea, but even Aston owners have to pay for theirs!

First 86 Wknd
 

Def, Total Surprise and everyone was way cool fr Scion/ Toyota, Great hospitalities!!!! Talk about Above and Beyond !!!!!

:thumbup: Great Food, Amazing Hotel Rooms, What an Experience!!

Great job w/ pics OP! Had it all covered :happy0180:

Why is there no AE86 in the museum

There is a cheap plug and play HID conversion kit coming for the FR-S... Like 100 bucks

I believe there was, dunno if i got it.. Was more interested in the people and the FR-S. I just quickly moved through the museum and returned to the fr s :thumbup:

didn't notice any RA Celicas tho :(

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Nice photos man :coolpics: here is my contribution:

First video: they brought out an LFA to sing a welcoming song for us before the big day at the Toyota headquarter tour and boy can that car sing!! :popcorn: I heard someone said "cargasm" , indeed, lol

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Second video: watch for the Greddy FRS 550hp donuts done by none other than Ken Gushi in the middle of the video. :clap:

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Sorry for the girly screams every now and then :)) It's that smoked tire fume I swear!

Boarding my flight back to Austin TX, I didn't get to say goodbye to you all but it was really nice meeting everyone. :) .

Regarding the trip it is truly a first class treatment, not just the King size suite, free food free drinks VIP tent freebies ALL and I mean from valley parking to luggage fee on top of cash stipend, It's the way Scion staff talking to us until 9 at night pouring their hearts out about the car. *sniff*

And I want to add that Argento (silver) color in person is flat and not as good looking as photo on website. White on the other hand is a heartbreaker they gave us all one last chance to jump ship on the preorder color and transmission, I stayed with Manual but switch to whiteout which is pearl white. just FYI for whoever is still on the fence regarding color.

Cool, Argento it is :D

lol...so your the guy that dropped the beer on me! lol jk jk