The Toyota GT 86 will get a second-generation version. Quite frankly, I don't know if that's good news or bad news because the current-generation model hasn't progressed the way we'd hoped. Maybe that's a contrarian opinion, but I just thought Toyota had more planned for the GT 86 than what it's done since the car came out. Whatever the case may be, Toyota of Europe executive vice president Karl Schlicht told Motoring Australia that the GT 86 will live to see a second generation model, even though he cautioned that the sports coupe still needed to go through a normal life cycle.
According to Schlicht, the Japanese automaker wants to keep some fun cars in its lineup and not make the same mistake it once did when it discontinued the Celica in 2006, leaving a gaping hole in the entry-level sports car segment. Right now, the GT 86 occupies that slot and will soon sit below the returning Supra.
Schlicht didn't elaborate on details regarding the second-generation GT 86, specifically how this disclosure would affect its relationship with the Subaru BRZ. Remember, Fuji Heavy Industries president Yasuyuki Yoshinaga said in July 2014 that the BRZ would also get a second-generation run.
Past reports have also linked the next GT 86 to the Toyota-BMW collaboration that's currently working on the Toyota Supra. Obviously, there are still a lot of unanswered questions regarding the status of the GT 86 and, by extension, the BRZ.
What we do know is that a high-ranking Toyota executive has said that the GT 86 will live to see a second generation; at this point, we'll take that news and hang on to it tightly.
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Toyota GT 86 Will Live to See a Second Generation originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:00 EST.
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