As is widely Known Toyota and Subaru are working together on a new sports coupe potentially to be viewed as a successor to the legendary Toyota AE86 (hachi-roku) of the eighties.
Dubbed the FR (hopefully a more inspiring name is on the cards) as a result of its front engined RWD layout, the coupe is set for a relase in the autumn of 2011.
The car is mooted to be based on a legacy platform and will use either the 2.0l or 2.5l version of Subaru’s flat 4 boxer engine.
Power is estimated to be a not disrespectful 200ps. The specs sound very promising especially when you consider that some magazines expect the car to be on sale for as little as 2 million yen.
Its been widely reported that the car will be sold in Japan as a Toyota and internationally as a Subaru. Either that or it could be marketed through both companies and sold as two slightly different styles, something that is quite likely to happen for the home market.
At least initially, both versions of the car will be built in Japan at Subaru’s new Oizumi factory.
Fuel economy might be a stumbling block with the engine choice but if they can make the car light enough it might be a worthy inheritor of the AE86 crown.
Unless of course Toyota have something else in the works for that purpose.
Spy Shot of Potential Subaru/Toyota Coupe
