Toyota FT-86 to Race in VLN Race @ Nurburgring this Weekend! First Photos!

[Slide]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

prob for the pug to lift the car up, when they change the tires. You know you seen in Super GT and other races

Aghhh didn't think of that.

[Sea1monkey2]

Originally Posted by 82mm 4g63

Exactly, they're on the roof but not on the hood. That's why I said "Hopefully it's just either covered up on the hood, or it isn't a production hood." because otherwise "they would be pointless and it would look silly."

imma venture a guess towards the hood lines being there but covered based on how obviously they covered the frs style hood dip in the front

[Kiteless]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Hm... so Gazoo Racing is doing the race just like LFA. Wow~ that's a news to me.

Well, it's good thing for us, so we can kinda figure out lap time & some what of spec we can expect from it (sort of).

Awww ya beat me too it. I saw it in the PDF and looked it up. Gazoo Racing has done all kinds of stuff to all kinds of cars from the iQ to the LFA, everything in between and beyond.

http://gazoo.com/racing/english/grmn/index.asp

I am sure they will post some sweet pics of the "Gazoo'ed" FT-86 after TMS. But it might not be a bad idea to keep a very close eye on their page incase the leak pics after/during the race.

- Jason

[madfast]

Originally Posted by suprachica79

I was refering to what madfast said about "FR-S style hood line much more visible", was he referencing the slope of the hood rather than the actual lines? It was sort of confusing, now that I re-read it I think I know what he meant.

im talking about the hood vent on the FR-S concept.



on the production model it's relegated to a line. it makes the front look way better imo.

[suprachica79]

Originally Posted by Sea1monkey2

imma venture a guess towards the hood lines being there but covered based on how obviously they covered the frs style hood dip in the front

I do hope you are right sir!

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Slide

Anyone able to tell pcd of these wheels?

Are they 17?

Looks 17's to me... but brakes in other hand, that's not regular brakes we've seen while testing on at the Nur.

[madfast]

Originally Posted by RRnold

Are you looking at the same picture b/c its looks RHD to me.

doh! fixed now.

so anyways does this mean the car is from the UK?

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by madfast

doh! fixed now.

so anyways does this mean the car is from the UK?

...or from JP

[suprachica79]

Originally Posted by madfast

im talking about the hood vent on the FR-S concept.



on the production model it's relegated to a line. it makes the front look way better imo.

Never noticed that before, thx for the clarification

[Want.FR-S]

Originally Posted by RRnold

Are you looking at the same picture b/c its looks RHD to me.

That is true but either Scion or Subaru may offer this wing as an oem accessory so it would have to open correctly. It is still open to discussion.

The one shown in this thread is clearly a Right-Hand Drive (RHD) car found in UK/Australia/Japan. However, I think there was another Ft-86 that is Left hand Drive testing on the Ring. That suggests that there might be multiple cars shown here. (It is not that easy to replace the steering wheel on the same car, right?)

I would think that Toyota/Scion/Subaru will eventually provide some types of wings for FT-86. However, if this car has a trunk with that huge wing, it definitely posts a problem to make the trunk functional, unless you have to un/screw it from time to time, like Dragonatti did with his tC.

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[Dimman]

Anyone know the time differences between the race LFA and production LFA at the 'Ring?

And what are the levels of mods for each class? Could extrapolate some performance of the stock FT86 maybe?

[RRnold]

Originally Posted by Want.FR-S

The one shown in this thread is clearly a Right-Hand Drive (RHD) car found in UK/Australia/Japan. However, I think there was another Ft-86 that is Left hand Drive testing on the Ring. That suggests that there might be multiple cars shown here. (It is not that easy to replace the steering wheel on the same car, right?)

I would think that Toyota/Scion/Subaru will eventually provide some types of wings for FT-86. However, if this car has a trunk with that huge wing, it definitely posts a problem to make the trunk functional, unless you have to un/screw it from time to time, like Dragonatti did with his tC.

It was a typo. As mentioned, that rear is very last gen Celica-ish. I do agree, it would be pointless to have a wing that size on a trunk and not have it fully open for a street car.

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

...or from JP

Yeah, definitely from and for Japan.

[Slide]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Anyone know the time differences between the race LFA and production LFA at the 'Ring?

And what are the levels of mods for each class? Could extrapolate some performance of the stock FT86 maybe?

U read my mind searching for that now.

If its a gazoo, does that mean its turbo?
Like there concept they already had back in mk1 days...