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Hachiroku Madness: Only 1000 (FT)86, All Hand Made?
Tomorrow, the Tokyo Motor Show will open its doors at the Big Sight to the press. Pre-show madness is running in high gear. Every Japanese carmaker tries to outdo the other with pre-releases and...
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Scion FR-S: How To Say “Hachi-Roku” In American
TTAC has long been bearish on the Scion brand, and in a lot of ways, Toyota’s global tri-branding strategy with its new “86″ sportscar (Toyota, Subaru and Scion versions are being sold) highlights how...
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It’s Hachi-Roku Thursday
I spent all day at the launch party of the Toyota FT/GT86/86/Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ “new compact rear-wheel-drive sports car” at Makuhari Messe in Tokyo. Could have been Chiba already. I came back with...
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Hachi-Roku Thursday: Specs And Yen
First of all, I thought I had already been to the launch party. Wrong. I thought I had driven the thing. Wrong. I learned today this was a pre-announcement-pre-party, and the cars I had seen were...
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Hachi-Roku Thursday: When And Where
I already told you that today is not the official launch. Highly out of the ordinary at Toyota. Usually, when the members of the media are invited, the car goes on sale. Not in this case. In Japan, the...
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Hachi-Roku Thursday: Toyota 86 To Let Drivers Download Data, Interact With...
Hachi-roku Chief Engineer Tetsuya Tada credits his sons with giving him the impetus to develop this car. His sons are 24 and 27 now, they do not have a driver’s license and show no interest in cars....
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Hachi-Roku Thursday: Toyota Could Work With Porsche On Next Engine, Chief...
The 86 is not on sale yet, and people are already swapping engines. In a virtual way at least. In hachi-roku forums people are discussing the merits of more horsepower than the stock 200hp. They also...
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Quote Of The Day: Toyoda Prepares For When Cars Retire From The World Of...
“In 1909, people shifted from the horse carriage to the automobile, and horses retired from the world of mobility. What happened to the horses? We still have horse races. People love horses. People...
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TTAC Publishes Exclusive Picture Of Supply-Constrained Subaru BRZ
Merriam-Webster Definition of CANARD: a false or unfounded report or story Car & Driver horrified lovers of unadulterated driving fun with the news that “just 6000 Subaru BRZ sports cars will be...
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Hachi-Roku Pricing Announced. Got 25K?
Long faces in hachi-roku land. Following a multi-year propaganda campaign, expectations for an “affordable” sports car collide with hard (currency) realities. Toyota today announced dealer pricing for...
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FT-86: Will It Blend, I Mean, Doooorift?
So here’s what’s going to happen… They’ll drive it as hard as they dare, swinging it through corners and stamping on the gas, chucking it into hairpins and willfully trying to unsettle the rear, and...
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Pre-Production Review: 2013 Scion FR-S
Scion has had a sordid past. Originally, Scion was Toyota’s solution to a lack of 18-25 year old shoppers. Over the past 9 years however Scion has lost their way and lost their youth. Their median...
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NSFW: Stark Naked Pictures Of Toyota 86, Subaru BRZ, Scion FRS, Hachi-Roku
It is a little bit like showing breasts at a plastic surgeon congress: At the annual meeting of the JSAE, the Japanese version of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Subaru totally disrobed its BRZ...
View ArticleTTAC Track Days Episode 2: Scion FR-S vs. Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T vs....
Click here to view the embedded video. In our second installment, we take the Scion FR-S to the track, along with the heavier, but more powerful Hyundai Genesis 2.0T and its spiritual antecedent, the...
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Boomerang Basement Bolides — Third Place: Scion FR-S
“This car,” Derek Kreindler told me as we grabbed third gear down Toronto Motorsports Park’s front straight, “is like a GT-R for a guy who lives in his mother’s basement.” He had a point. Some...
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Boomerang Basement Bolides – First Place: Mazda Miata PRHT
The conventions of auto writing require that we come up with at least one labored metaphor for every comparison test, so here goes: You guys remember that movie It Might Get Loud? Obviously, the...
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Off-Track Review: 2013 Scion FR-S
[Editor's note: TTAC does not review cars, TTAC reviewers do. The reviews can be as different as the reviewers are, and they voice their opinions independently. Due to the high interest the FR-S has...
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Review: 2013 Scion FR-S
We’ve already looked at the FR-S, but I came of car-driving age just minutes before the heyday of the Toyota AE86 and, by God, I’m going to write about any car that claims to be an homage to the car...
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BRZ/FR-S Hachi-Roku Beats All Cars In Off-The-Lot Race
Some bloggers see the BRZ/FR-S (hereinafter hachi-roku) pocket racers as the second coming of Christ, others declared them as declassed by the Hyundai Genesis, the Mazda Miata PRHT (pfft), and of...
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Mountain State Review: 2013 Scion FR-S vs. 2006 Mazda RX-8
It’s the perfect day and the perfect road for a brisk mountain drive in the siena red Z3. For the last time this year it’s easily warm enough to put the top down—in a little over a week the remnants...
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Review From The Backseat: 2013 Toyota 86 GT Limited (aka GT86, Scion FR-S,...
No car in recent history must have been so relentlessly covered at TTAC as the Toyota 86 and its dizzying assemblage of names and numbers. I don’t think there is an editor at TTAC who hasn’t reviewed...
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Tokyo Auto Salon: Japan Discovers New Growth Industry: Hachi Roku Customization
Toyota’s Akio Toyoda never stops warning about the hollowing out of Japan’s industry. Today at the Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyoda gave a spirited speech praising the virtues of customization of the...
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Tokyo Auto Salon: It’s The Hachi-Roku Rama! An 86, FR-S, BRZ picture...
On Friday, we mentioned that Toyobaru’s hachi-roku absolutely dominates the Tokyo Auto Salon into total submission. Just about any booth (save that of Honda, Nissan etc.) has the almond-eyes of one...
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Scion FR-S Convertible Coming To Geneva In March
Anyone attending the Geneva Auto Show will get to see a concept version of the Toyota 86 convertible, pictured above in a sketch. Enjoy it as you sip your 7 Franc lattes. We’ll have live shots for you...
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