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Originally Posted by gymratter
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Totally agree than
anything on the 'internet' needs to be taken with a grain of salt, particularly jalopnik. What's interesting about this story is how many other news sites are carrying it and referencing the news having come from Toyota -
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/othe...id=mailsignout
https://www.thedrive.com/news/40055/...and-more-speed
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a3...r-86-revealed/
https://www.motor1.com/news/498782/2...-gr-86-reveal/
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/...ew-photos-info
https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/s...-toyota-gr-86/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterly...h=59051fd91786
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/20...parts-for-brz/
If it's 'fake news', then an awful lot of news organizations seem to be falling for it.
Then of course there's this, the actual news release directly from Toyota -
https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/toyota/34997138.html
Which matches what everyone else has picked up on. So, in this case, it doesn't seem like 'fake news'.
It seems totally logical that the specs for the GR86 and BRZ will be identical. It's hard to imagine how the same engine would have two different outputs in the same market (and how the companies would agree to that). Maybe the Japanese home market version will have a
slightly different tune than the export cars, so that Japanese buyers can feel like they got the 'better' version.