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Originally Posted by Torquesteered

24,995$ for top spec without nav. and leather...

Originally Posted by Torquesteered

It almost has to cost that much, can't think of a single car atm with 200hp that is less then 23k.

Just to think of a couple sub 23k 200+ hp RWD coupe cars that might compete with the 86...
Ford Mustang: 305 hp - $22,310
Hyundai Genesis Coupe: 210 hp (increasing to 275 hp for the 2013 model year)- $22,250

I think that Toyota is going to sell the car in the USA for right around $25k or under, but it’s not going to be quite the same car that you see in the pictures that have been released. Some of the luxuries that you see such as the automatic dual climate control and heated seats are probably not even going to be available as options on the Scion. There probably really won’t be any options or trim levels, it’s going simply be the Scion FRS for $24,995 and it’s going to be a pretty stripped down version of what is sold abroad. The Subaru BRZ is going to have some of that stuff and it is going to go for around $28k

That’s just my guess, of course.

Part of what makes me think this is that Toyota used that same strategy for the 2000 Celica GTS 6-speed that I own. I think I paid just under $21,000 when I purchased it back in 1999. The European and JDM versions of the GTS were quite a lot more than that, but they also had navigation and automatic climate control which was never available in our market. In order to help sell the Celica cheaply in the USA, Toyota strip it down and make some of the options unavailable in order to sell it cheaper in the USA than they did anywhere else in the world.