{"id":217,"date":"2010-04-21T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2010-10-12T15:36:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:36:27","slug":"report-toyota-ft-86-will-move-up-in-price-and-age-demographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Report: Toyota FT-86 price increase and increase in age demographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/News\/NewsArticle\/AllCars\/248971\/\">Autocar<\/a><\/strong> is now reporting that the Toyota FT-86 pricing will be higher than originally planned. The FT-86 price will be upped in Japan from the original $20,000 starting price to $23,000 (with a fully loaded FT-86 being approximately $26,000). The FT-86 development team is also planning on reducing fuel consumption from the Subaru boxer engine (instead of increasing power).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in terms of target demographic, Toyota has now upped the increased target buyer age from 30&#8217;s to the 40&#8217;s. This is due to Toyota market research which indicated that not as many young buyers would purchase the FT-86 coupe as the company originally predicted.  Discuss this report <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=563\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=563\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autocar is now reporting that the Toyota FT-86 pricing will be higher than originally planned. The FT-86 price will be upped in Japan from the original $20,000 starting price to $23,000 (with a fully loaded FT-86 being approximately $26,000). The FT-86 development team is also planning on reducing fuel consumption from the Subaru boxer engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[121,124,125,122,11,9,74,41,86,4,10,154,151,152,153,150,149,120,126,127,123,3,104,117,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}