Sunday, October 26, 2008

New Toyota/Subaru RWD AE86 Successor rendered speculation

It's been rumored for awhile that Toyota, upon their upping of controlling shares in Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru's parent company); have embarked on a secret plan to revive the legendary AE86, a lightweight, affordable, RWD, Turbocharged-mod-heaven road racer (Takumi's new ride in year 2012?). Following our previous report, here's another render from Japanese magazine 7Tune of design directions both Subaru and Toyota could undertake. Don't take it for real thou, as Japanese magazines tend to render without speculation most of the time, with the Toyota variant taking heavy design cues from the Supra, and the Subaru, probably rendered in 30 minutes. Well we couldn't confirm on how exactly it would look like, the drivetrain however would most possbly be a 2.0ltr turbocharged 200hp VW Golf GTi chaser, and the gross weight should be controlled under 1250kg for some mountain road drifting. Don't even think of trying on the 'wheels in drain cornering technique thou.

Source: 7Tune via Autocar

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Doesn't this look a lot like a Hyundai Genesis Coupe?

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