Toyota GT86 review

[OwlHoot]

IF he start to change lane, more horsepower won't help, you need brakes. ...

Fair points, but as the Top Gear guys pointed out in an episode some years ago, and demonstrated with one of their experiments, powerful cars have more efficient robust brakes, because they need to. Conversely, wimpy underpowered cars have correspondingly poor and shaky brakes.

So that's another reason to favour a powerful car - for its greater deceleration.

[original PM]

It is a nice car - but if you want it in any other colour apart from red it is going to cost an extra £450...

so according to the Toyota website that brings it in at just over £25k ...

you can get a lot of other car for that..

why not just get

3 year old boxter s?

[stevejohnson]

Toyota GT86 is like the bmw 323 or 325 , yes it is nice but we have all been there and done that.

[cailin maith]

it was white, and had red bits on the seats.

Everything else was just guff to me then.

[sasguru]

Yes, I am sure all those years spent sitting in traffic jams around Wandsworth in your Prius qualify you as a right Ayrton fooking Senna.

Compared to you the granny who lives down the road is like Ayrton Senna, you incompetent middle-lane toodler. HTH.

[sasguru]

It is a nice car - but if you want it in any other colour apart from red it is going to cost an extra £450...

so according to the Toyota website that brings it in at just over £25k ...

you can get a lot of other car for that..

why not just get

3 year old boxter s?

Toyota GT86 is like the bmw 323 or 325 , yes it is nice but we have all been there and done that.

If you don't get it, you don't get it.
HTH

[d000hg]

A bit like putting a massive body-kit on your Nissan Micra then... it's really cool but most idiots are too dumb to see it.

[VectraMan]

Underpowered cars are only fun if they have bad handling. My Mum had a Rover Metro 1.1 which was great fun to drive, for example, as every slight bend was an adventure.

[IR35FanClub]

Fair points, but as the Top Gear guys pointed out in an episode some years ago, and demonstrated with one of their experiments, powerful cars have more efficient robust brakes, because they need to. Conversely, wimpy underpowered cars have correspondingly poor and shaky brakes.

So that's another reason to favour a powerful car - for its greater deceleration.

Nah - say you have a wimpy car. To upgrade the engine to more power will cost you thousands. To stick some better brakes on it will cost you hundreds. the best thing - is pick a model of car with good handling but get the crappy engine. Say a 318 instead of the 330. He says. LOL.

As much as I love Topgear it irks me that they take the piss out of IAM becuase of one comment about bad driving a few years back. The guys who do the teaching actually enjoy driving, and don't like students who dither, you'll fail your test.