Looked at the 86 this weekend 4 seats (sorta) means we could ditch the Fiesta too, but the offer of 11.8k for my S kinda puts it hold for now, Nick did you drive both versions before buying? just wondering if I could get a better deal at Subaru.
What spec-extras did you get.?

 

At the time, we had to wait about a month.

Subaru say they aren't expecting any cars 'til March 2013, so epic fail there, then! But there is a discount available from Broadspeed worth considering.

The Subie comes with a shorter warranty, a different HU, a vile aresole'd-silver dash panel and higher front spring rates, for less stupidly-drifty oversteer. But they will repair your kerbed alloys & put swirl marks in your paint FOC, if you're a car wrecker.

The only 86 extras were the seat heaters with the leather/alcantara covers and the reversing sensors. Someone said the reverse camera CAN be retro-fitted to the Touch (& Go is £750, which is the only other thing to consider) so rev. sensors are probably redundant. The Touch will be staying, so MAYBE the shat-nav option would have been worth getting. It's a plug-in & program, so it can be added later. The upshot is, most things you need are there already & those you don't, aren't.

If it's replacing your S, you may be interested to know that Litchfield has already obtained 25BHP with a Miltek cat-back & a Ecutek re-flash for about £1,250.

There are plenty of go-faster bits already...

 

Saw one of these in that same blue in Glasgow IKEA car park yesterday.

Definitely a handsome car in the metal

 

Cheers, may wander in again and chat to a salesman I know that works in the stealers(just found he'd moved jobs) see if he can do a better deal.

 

We spent the weekend at Silverstone watching the Britcar 24 hours; there were two GT86's entered in the production class, both finished the race without any major issues that I'm aware of (although I was concentrating on one team, so I may have missed it...). Not as quick as the E46 M3's but reliable and consistant.

So reliability doesn't look like it'll be an issue then Oh and as for Ricing kit, the Rollacentre entered car had a massive BGW

 

It's like being in a tin shed when it pisses down! Now I know how they kept the mass tolerable.

It seems to get a bit cokey if you drive in too much traffic & don't thrash it enough. Which is good.

Puddle hops better than an S2000 - must be those rounded tyre treads.

 

You could buy a lovely 911 for the same money - even a nice turbo, which would probably lose less money and apart from the turbo they are surprisingly cheap to run

 

Ok too much bum boy references for my taste but even so I would question the realism: (a) the lack of tyres smoking and (b) that back end is right outside the band of rubber on the track. Most unconvincing line IYAM. Those two people behind should be obscured by billowing acrid clouds of burning rubber.

Come to think, what's the creator's number?

edit: Still think that's over-rotated for a 4-wheel drift, it's a back end (but I'm no expert )
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This is about 50 mph and the rear wheels doing 70+



No smoke

Tyres need to be hot before you get smoke

 

Toyota have just announced a TRD edition of the GT86, I will be wanting to have a play in that.

 

It's fifteen large for a load of rice toot. Makes the Mugen Civic look like a bargain!

What sort of car one could build for £15K...