More details of FT86 from Autocar
 

today autocar have released further details of the FT86 www.autocar.co.uk

What's the Toyota FT-86 like to drive?
Steve Cropley

“We’re putting a tremendous amount of effort into finessing this car,” Duncan McMath, a senior Toyota engineer of 14 years’ standing, who has driven Toyota FT-86 prototypes extensively during their development in Europe and spends his weekends building 700bhp racing cars, told me.

“We know this car has to deliver, if we are ever going to change people’s opinions about how Toyotas drive. The mission is to rekindle the spirit of the old rear-drive Corolla people remember so fondly, without removing the practicality today’s owners need, which will encourage them to use the car every day. There’s still work to do, but I believe we’ve achieved a lot.

“We’ve develop the steering to give a near-instant response. And because of this, and the excellent weight distribution, the car is very, very adjustable when cornering.

T"he effort builds up nicely through the wheel as you go harder. We think we’ve got the initial cornering roll just right, so the car feels very responsive on turn-in, and it tucks in nicely when you lift off, too.

“The other thing is the body control. We’ve been very careful with the damping, so the car stays flat and just soaks up the bumps. There’s very little bounce, even on poor surfaces, which should help in the UK. With this suspension, the great driving position, the lightness and the throb of that flat four, I think people might reckon we’ve built something pretty good.”

nothing really new in that article

Nice I like the standard LSD, being able to turn off traction control, CYLINDER HEADS BY YAMAHA!! Woot! Top speed 140MPH, electric steering.
Still no torque figures...
^^I would prefer to have a lower final drive, BTW who cares about 0-60 I want a quicker quarter mile

Thanks for posting! :happy0180:

Top speed 140?

I'm hoping that is a limiter because my boat underpowered accord goes ~130

Cool, I can't wait to see more

Remember it is going to be a NA 4 cylinder. Problems runs out of breath around 140-150 anyways. Why would you ever need to go faster? Will just increase the insurance premium anyways. Just wait for after market and get limiter taken off with an ECU flash if that bothers you. Doubt you will go much faster anyways due to physics.

140 mph top speed with 8k rpm rev limit would be ~4k rpm at 70mph if 6th gear can hit the rev limiter...that's a bit high for cruising.

Yamaha, sweet...

But I don't get how they say that the curb weight is just over 1100kg (2425lbs), with ~200hp. They go on to state that the 0-60mph is "around" (slightly less than) 7.0 seconds. That has to be ultra conservative or something is wrong, because my 170bhp, 2650lb "wrong wheel drive" car can hit 0-60mph between 7.1-7.4 depending on how exuberant you are with the launch.

I would have expected a mid 6 with +30bhp, -200lbs and rwd as compared to my car or late Celica GT-S.

It's more likely that top speed will be power limited than gear limited. Really, 140 sounds about right for 200hp in a car that size.

I guess it can be around that which is fine with me. I used to drive my altezza powered 86 with ~4k rpm at 70mph for over 2 years and no problem at all :)

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...&postcount=386

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...t=1025&page=26

What... I post the exact same info a full 3 hours before him and I get no love :bs:


j/k

Awesome! 2450 lbs! standard lsd! 200hp!

Greatest news Ive heard in a while.

And Yamaha touch :wub: