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Originally Posted by TooSlow
This was on the buyatoyota.com website:
https://www.buyatoyota.com/norcal/of...=86_cash_70724
Each 86 comes with Toyota Safety Sense (TSS-P) - a suite of advanced safety features which include: Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, Automatic High Beams, Pre-*Collision System with Pedestrian Detection function and Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist - at no additional cost.
I'm pretty sure the 2019's don't have them. If they did, I would have waited till this year instead of buying my 86 in 2018. More safety gear the better. |
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Originally Posted by humfrz
I'm guessing that that web page isn't accurate.
I can't confirm that the 86 comes with that package - 
An interweb blurb said:
"While the 86 doesn't offer a Toyota Safety Sense package, it does come with the Star Safety System, Smart Stop Technology, and Hill Start Assist Control, all of which deliver a better sense of confidence when you get behind the wheel, and make sure that you have a better chance of making it home safely.May 3, 2018"
humfrz |
Humfrz is right, although my newer CX-5 has that stuff and then some though
I have to admit they are quite useful for lazy long highway cruises too.
The 86 only has the basic safety stuff as part of the star safety sense pack, not much changed over the years so far. And why would you want anything else on a barebones sports car other than to compete in the market for say the higher trim ND miatas, I'm pretty sure if you bought a manual most of the auto braking stuff would be nullified except for hill hold assist. The star safety pack on Toyotas is literally just the minimum that's always been on 2016+ 86, BRZ, FRS:
Rearview camera: Required by the NHTSA at this point, so it's not even a fair selling point, cars have to have this if they are built after May 2018
Electronic brake force distribution (EBFD): Spreads the braking force evenly throughout all four wheels, for instance it'll apply more pressure to the fronts under harder braking than the rear due to the amount of weight shift to the front and that changes based on that weight shifting force. Alot of track people noticed this and used different pads to make it advantageous or less effective in some cases
Smart stop tech: just keeps you from accidentally pressing the gas and brake at the same time and cuts power out if you do it
VSC, TCS, ABS: the usual stuff everyone knows about and usually disables
That's pretty much it, nothing special. Maybe in the next gen ,if there is one, they may offer something to compete with the new miata. But adding radar cruise and all that would require things like an electronic parking brake and stuff like that and that would honestly effect the driving dynamics of being a "drifter" machine. Unless they could tie it to the stock handle