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Originally Posted by Maxim
So, with so many people so enthused about the original car and the feel and spirit of it...how are you going to evaluate this one? How will you decide if it's "got it" ? The car is just going to be so completely different that I don't really know what "metric" people will use to compare it.
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Measurable: How well it reacts to steering input and throttle engagement (crisp as hell, such as the AE86), nimbleness, and an engine that rev's strain free to its redline, and screams like it has 500hp, when in fact it has a fraction of that.
I know it won't have one thing the AE86 has, and that is a simplisitic platform to start learning off of, but an extremely difficult car to actually push to its limit (no ABS, solid rear axle, chassis thats a bit rubbery after age, relatively short wheelbase effect this); easy to drive, hard to master. The FT-86 won't be exactly like this...but something tells me if Toyota can make the car a good starting platform to learn from, something that doesn't attempt to drive for you, and is a car where you can really learn to drive by 'feeling' the car through the corners, then they've done pretty damned good.
Edit: Har, GZE beat me...
For everything else, there are no words. You'd have to drive one to understand I suppose. The car really evokes feelings of joy and connection, because its just a mechanical machine, that connects you straight to the road with no interference from electronics. The fact that its RWD helps tremendously too.
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Originally Posted by WingsofWar
The AE86 did have that spirit, even if it was a relatively stupid car.
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Define "stupid", lest I start busting out the numbers game on comparable japanese sports car's of the same era (early-mid 80's) for people that understand numbers more than driver feel. Already proven the AE86 was better than the Celica fanbois RA60 in basically every sport category, even though the AE86 isn't a "sports car" and the RA is.