| Back in the late 90's car companies normally | | | | their Genesis coupe. A sporty RWD car that |
| associated with utilitarian vehicles started realizing | | | | offers a manual transmission. A recipe that made |
| the cars that they thought were run of the mill | | | | the word Toyota a once powerful performance |
| were becoming popular. Cars like the Honda Civic | | | | word,when it could be associated with the Supra |
| and the Acura Integras were being tuned by their | | | | Turbo. Now it seems that Toyota will enter that |
| owners to run with Corvettes and cars like the | | | | arena again, and not with the super car that they |
| Toyota Supra were being compared to super | | | | have had in development for many years. |
| cars. This trend to tuning was picked up by the | | | | Toyota has announced the new FT-86 Sports |
| media, Internet Forums, and there were even a | | | | Car. The name is based upon the legendary |
| few movies made about it. Eventually the car | | | | Toyota Corolla from the mid 80s, which is a |
| companies got wind of this and started releasing | | | | drifting legend. The FT-86 will be Rear Wheel |
| tuner vehicles of their own. | | | | Drive and power will be fed to those wheels via |
| What ended up happening was watered down | | | | Subarus Boxer motor. This is the normally |
| economy cars carrying the brands and badges of | | | | aspirated version of the motor that appears in |
| what were once fierce tuning companies, or | | | | the WRX. |
| genuine tuner cars that were approaching luxury | | | | So now once again, we have a potentially |
| car prices. The generic run of the mill car that | | | | affordable car that carries the name and reliability |
| could be tuned to a track monster without | | | | of one of the top car companies, but with the |
| breaking the bank was seemingly gone. | | | | potential to be a track animal once again. Most |
| Honda now offers only the Civic Si with not much | | | | people already know the potential of the Subaru |
| more power than it had 10 years ago and the | | | | boxer and pairing with a Toyota RWD chassis |
| Acura Integra/RSX...not even made anymore. | | | | (remember that Supra again), sounds like a hit. |
| Toyota, well there is nothing really exciting unless | | | | Already Toyota FT-86 forums are appearing on |
| you step up to the IS-F. Then along came | | | | the web in wait of this new vehicle. Now the |
| Hyundai, trying to shake things up a bit, releasing | | | | waiting begins for it to hit the showroom floors. |