LIVESHOTS!! 2017 Toyota 86 GT @ New York Auto Show 2016 - The 2017 Toyota 86 Replaces The Scion FR-S

2017 Toyota 86 GT @ New York Auto Show 2016 - The 2017 Toyota 86 Replaces The Scion FR-S

Unveiled nowadays at the new york auto Show, the 2017 Toyota 86 is that the reincarnation of what would are the facelifted FR-S had descendent not been axed.

It borrows its name from the international model offered in Japan, Australia, Republic of South Africa and different countries, however, if you raise America, the ecu market nickname “GT 86” would have done simply fine.

“The name 86 is shared globally, and is passed down from the automobile that evokes it, the corolla GT-S, familiar by its true fans because the AE86 or “hachi-roku,” which suggests 8-6 in Japanese,” same Toyota boss Bill Fay throughout the car’s presentation within the manhattan. “As you'll see, the name isn’t the sole issue that has modified. We’re investment within the 86 to create it higher than ever, with styling updates, new wheels and a lot of premium materials throughout.

And by that, Fay means that the 86’s side got alittle bit busier than the FR-S – a pattern we’re seeing on different recent Toyota models too, just like the Prius Prime, with a bigger front grille, new light-emitting diode headlight fixtures and switch signals, and a reshaped bumper. The rear was refinished with light-emitting diode rear lights and a brand new bumper style, with the automobile additionally gaining a brand new set of alloy wheels.

Inside, Toyota says it additional a brand new “Grandlux” soft-touch material on the control board surround and therefore the door trims, at the side of completely different upholstery for the seats with silver sewing and a brand new sports wheel with integrated audio controls, and within the automatic models, larger paddle shifters.

Beneath the skin, the eighty six advantages from a retuned suspension to enhance handling, and within the case of the 6-speed manual case model, a modification within the differential quantitative relation and a 5hp bump for the two.0-lite flat four engine that currently produces 205hp and 156 lb-ft of torsion. the automated model keeps an equivalent 200hp engine because the 2016 FR-S.

The new Toyota eighty six can maintain sale in America and Canadian dealerships this fall, by which era, we must always see its Subaru twin, the 2017 BRZ facelift, that was caught overt  earlier in the week sporting similar variety of revisions.