Anders Gullstein wrote:Kjøreglede måles ikke i antall hk. Etter å ha kjørt en MR2 mk1 i 12 år, så vet jeg alt om det
Hvis man tar den med på gamle Mosseveien eller gamle Drammensveien til Hønefoss, så holder det i massevis med 200 hk.
Det er jo klart, det er fartsgrenser å følge.
Vi er alle forskjellige, jeg må ha en bil som gir meg noe å kjøre, om det så er på en offentlig vei eller en stor åpen racingbane.
Noen klarer seg med en bil som gir 100% glede og kikk i svingene, mens de sitter å irriterer seg litt over at langsiden er så utrolig lang.
Hvor mye artigere er det ikke når man da, har en bil som gir deg like stort kikk rundt hele banen.
Tviler ikke et sekund på at Toyota GT86 er utrolig artig og morsom å kjøre, men jeg med flere tror at man kommer til å gå lei av de 200hk som sitter der standard.
Hadde det ikke vært for HK/ utslipp osv skattene i Norge og Japan,
så tror jeg at ingen hadde sagt noe på, om den kom med større motor som standard.
Vi vet at Subaruen kommer med en STI versjon med rundt 300hk, men det vil også Toyota.
Toyota GT 86
Toyota is already hard at work evaluating a high performance version of the new Toyota GT 86 sporting coupe. Chief engineer Tetsuo Tada says that not only is a supercharged GT 86 envisaged, test cars have already been made and are being evaluated by Toyota Racing Developments, the Japanese giant’s in house tuning division.
Tada-san favours the supercharger approach because it is simpler to achieve than increasing engine size and doesn’t wreck throttle response as turbocharging might.
Indeed Toyota says that turbocharging along with four-wheel drive and wide tyres are what make sports cars boring to drive. føler meg truffet.
Supercharging is also a key competence for TRD which has been offering this kind of forced induction as an aftermarket kit for Toyotas since 1998. He would not be drawn on what kind of power a supercharged GT 86 might develop but Toyota is known to consider the car’s chassis could easily handle an additional 50bhp to go with the 197bhp already generated by its Subaru 2-litre flat four motor, a view with which, having driven the car, we wholly concur. However he says the TRD is also looking at ways of modifying the suspension to cope with the extra power, raising the possibility of a still more substantial power hike.
The standard GT 86 needs around 6.8sec and does 143mph. It is not yet known whether, if approved, the supercharged GT 86 would be offered as an aftermarket pack or as a model in its own right.
Tada also confirmed that it was so important to his team that even the standard GT 86 drifted properly that special tests were incorporated into the car’s development programme specifically for this purpose, ‘the first time this has ever been done on any Toyota.’