7Tune has got a hold of the latest Best Car magazine and the Japanese magazine has some juicy details on the upcoming spiritual successor to the iconic Toyota AE86, set to be positioned as a very fun car on a budget and one of the few new “soulful” cars that come from the Japanese marque.
Best Car reports that test mules have been spotted being tested and sources have informed that these mules are built on a shortened Subaru Legacy chassis. This is only temporary apparently – subsequent test mules and the final product will use a shortened version of the latest Subaru Impreza chassis. This chassis is built for all-wheel drive so it should be easily adapted to rear wheel drive.
The test mule uses the normally aspirated 2.0 litre boxer engine from the Impreza and has had it’s all-wheel drive drivetrain’s front driveshafts removed to convert it to rear wheel drive. The final product is expected to use Subaru’s 1.5 litre boxer engine, a DOHC motor which puts out 110 horsepower at 6,400rpm and 143Nm of torque at 3,200rpm. This is supposed to push along a car that weighs 1,100kg. Won’t exactly be scorching but enough to feel zippy.
Source: 7Tune
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hmm….finally something juicy from the T boring brand?
must be fun for the test drivers to use a 2.0 engine in a lightweight.
but hopefully we’ll get to see something better than 110 ps engine, since by the time it comes out….most 1.5′s will be beyond that powerband.
nice front design from the pics in 7Tune…back looks ermm….
Good chasis and engine manufacturer… but only 110HP only…
Hope here is akina mountain… can borrow the force to get the force when down hill.
Too bad laaa. need to climb many hills here also laaa. 110HP will be painful.
Cause quit same spec with kia spectra that i driving
boxer engine + rear wheel + shorter car… seem like bit conflicting. The car should be allow to drift.. but the boxer seem like to stable it even more.
the old AE86 should be faster…Bunta will not be imprezzeaaa!
Short wheelbase, engine mounted low and back the front axle, makes for a very entertaining drive….tail happy too.
If you need more power, no one is stopping anyone from putting in the EJ20/25 turbo motor in it…
110 hp? the old Ae86 had more power, and a lot less weight..
strange…
I doubt that they will use boxer engine. When was the last time that Toyota used a boxer engine?
1.5 liter???
110 hp????
is this a joke or what???
Ooh, so it’s gonna be a boxer? Lower center of gravity + lightweight, sounds good. No more screaming L4s for 4AGE enthusiasts, you’ll have to do with an engine that sounds like a motorboat
legend reborn…
Meh, rotary still my favourite. The engine in this car doesn’t need to be powerful, it need to be very well-tuned and smooth. Weight distribution and suspension is very important for this car, Well, let’s wait and see what happens.
Hopefully its a rotary engine, has suicide doors and called RX-8
shorter car, can drift well?
i think the wheelbase should be longer, easier to drift..
or this car is not built for drifting purpose..?
if not, why i can see the word AE86 there?
when they said shorter, they meant a shortened version of the current subaru WRX chassis which is waaaayyy longer than the original Ae86 chassis anyways.
=.= box engine 1.5 produce 110 bhp only……
there’s no point in making a new car we all like it and love the way it was made back in ’83 so leave it at that and re-release the car ooh and the mkII supra as well:D
darkteror said,
November 21, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
=.= box engine 1.5 produce 110 bhp only……
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*your average 1.6liter engine inline 4 is around 105bhp-120bhp…
-so that engine is already capable….**but wait…i tought subaru only have 1.6liter boxer engine?