Reply to: Got an appointment to test drive the Toyota GT86 tomorrow

[ZARDOZ]

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Toyota GT86 Coupe Review | What Car?

Toyota GT86 2 0 2dr Review | What Car?

Good find, is it 4 star or 3? IIRC Zafira was used family car of the year last year with 4 stars. A few weeks later it got 2 stars!

[Old Hack]

Lovely.

A car you've got to screw the balls off to make it do anything.

Bet it's great in traffic.

Its not my bag at all, but in fairness, you're not going to rag anything in traffic, all it will be like is a car like the Civic Type R that to overtake you have to rag it, but just moving in traffic ti will be fine.

If you get one of these, get the scooby and get on some jap forums as they can get this 2.0 boxer up past 500bhp quite easily. Now that would put some shepherds pie in your pants.

[SimonMac]

I no longer trust Whatcar. Their failings become apparent if you buy the magazine on a regular basis, they are very inconsistent and do not compare well with the other established motoring magazines. They can give a car a four star review one month (and recommend the car) and then change it to three the next. They give average ratings to cars they admit to having not even tested. Certain marques never get a bad review, tends to be the ones they carry the adverts for. Some of these marques get less than favourable customer reviews on the site.

Spot the difference

Toyota GT86 Coupe Review | What Car?

Toyota GT86 2 0 2dr Review | What Car?

[Old Hack]

What 4-by-4 do you have? I'm thinking of buying one, but would like a large model like a Landrover (think two people comfortably kipping in the back), although I fear even a 2nd hand one would be beyond my price range.

I'm not really interested in those new-fangled curvy models that look like a slightly scaled-up Volkswagon if that makes sense.

I'm told the Mitsubishi Pajero is quite cheap [ Mitsubishi Pajero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]; but I'm not sure it would be large enough.

The previous generation land rover (series 3) was very good, but uncomfortable (leaf in stead of independent coils) and are cheap, but the new 90/110/130's, are expensive, in relation.

However, Satana, a Spanish firm, bought the rights to ther S3, and updated it with newer engines (isuzu Diesels - ironically what most people upgrade to second hand in LRs) and they are significantly cheaper. Have a search for them as they are hard working and cracking and no one will scratch it.

[ZARDOZ]

Not the best review I've ever read.... Linky

I no longer trust Whatcar. Their failings become apparent if you buy the magazine on a regular basis, they are very inconsistent and do not compare well with the other established motoring magazines. They can give a car a four star review one month (and recommend the car) and then change it to three the next. They give average ratings to cars they admit to having not even tested. Certain marques never get a bad review, tends to be the ones they carry the adverts for. Some of these marques get less than favourable customer reviews on the site.

[sasguru]

I am turning 40 soon, but instead of buying a flashy car, I think I will create my own paramilitary militia.

You must have a very small penis. People like you generally have personal issues of one kind or another.

[sasguru]

Not the best review I've ever read.... Linky

Yes saw that. Contradicts most other ones. Top Gear rave about it.
Still that's why I'm test driving it.

[KaiserWilly]

It looks great but isn't a bit of a cliched midlife-crisis car?

I am turning 40 soon, but instead of buying a flashy car, I think I will create my own paramilitary militia.

[badger7579]

Not the best review I've ever read.... Linky

[d000hg]

Don't you have an appointment to go and try and prove you're a real man?

Oh and drive safe. Odds are you'll drive 500m and then be so scared the nice salesman will have to drive it back for you.

[sasguru]

It's the sudden over-compensation which is the cliche, not the car itself.

The over-compensation that will occur when you're middle-aged and realise that you've lived half your life living two lies will probably have you go on a gay bender round King's Cross station, if not charging for tricks yourself.

[ChrisPackit]

The one to go for, that will almost certainly become the most collectable one, is the Japanese only RS model which is the lightweight version. It's the Cheapest version they produce, has no A/C and comes with steel wheels, but sure you could spec a set of alloy wheels into it.

The Japs and the English love the rarer, more sought after variants and will hold it's value much better. Think Mitsubishi Evo RS, Skyline N1 variants....

Me. I will wait til they bring the turbo version out in a few years...

[d000hg]

I don't get this mid life crisis tag, relalising you're a certain age and may only have 20 good active years left and wanting to make the most of it is an entirley natural thing to do IMO.

It's the sudden over-compensation which is the cliche, not the car itself.

[IR35FanClub]

If you like that sort of thing...

How about a 2000 plate BMW 330ci plus an audi TT plus a subaru imprezza. All that lot for about £15-20k Can't be bad.

Might cost a bit more in servicing and repair but...
330ci has 231bhp, rear wheel drive, seats 5 and drive really well (I used to have one)
The TT has 4WD and 250bhp (3.2V6) and girls like them. The DSG can change gear faster than you can (My next car).
The scooby can be your tow/winter car. Me not interested - got an X-Trail for towing and winter.

If you get older cars they are lower to tax as they predate emissions regs. :-) Why let the gov tax your fun.

Just an alternative view. You buy a new car and after 4 weeks you get sorta get bored of it. All that pre ownership excitement becomes the mundane. If you keep 3 older cars on the go (not necessarily all taxed and insured at the same time) you can swap which ever one is most boring every 6 months. Eventually you'll have owned all the cars you ever faniced at some point, just not when they first come out. Whatever ever 3 cars you have at the time must be awesome as any thing mundane will have been swapped. Sometime's you'll make a few quid in the process if you are a good haggler in private sales. That's my theory anyway...

[Harmonic]

If you have to buy new then it's a good option for a front-engined rear wheel drive Drift-Monkey-mobile.