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The Toyota 86 is a 2+2 sports car jointly developed by Toyota and Subaru, manufactured at Subaru 's Gunma assembly plant — along with a badge engineered variant, marketed as the Subaru BRZ.
The 2+2 fastback coupé is noted for its naturally-aspirated boxer engine, front-engined, rear- wheel -drive configuration, 50/50 front/rear weight balance and low center of gravity — and for drawing inspiration from Toyota 's earlier AE86, a small, light, front- engine /rear-drive Corolla variant widely popular for Showroom Stock, Group A, and Group N, Rally, Club and drift racing.
Toyota markets the sports car as the 86 in Asia, Australia, North America (from August 2016 ), South Africa, and South America ; as the Toyota GT86 in Europe ; as the 86 and GT86 in New Zealand ; as the Toyota FT86 in Nicaragua and Jamaica and as the Scion FR-S ( 2012 - 2016 ) in the United States and Canada.
Name
The development code of the 2+2 was 086A and its main production names 86 (pronounced "eight-six" or Hachi-Roku (ハチロク) in Japanese) or GT86, reference historic Toyota front-engined and rear- wheel drive sports coupés and hatchbacks, including:
the 1967 2000GT ( Japan 's seminal fastback coupé, which was also powered by a 2.0-litre engine ); and
the 1983 to 1987 AE86 range. Toyota also referred to its first sports car, the Sports 800, given that both this car and the 86 share a boxer engine layout.
Pre-launch concept cars
Initial layout and design elements for the 86 were presented by Toyota using its "FT" ( Future Toyota ) concept car nomenclature. The first was the Toyota FT-HS, which was presented at the Detroit Motor Show in 2007. It had a front engine, rear- wheel drive layout and 2+2 seating and was powered by a V6 engine with hybrid electric assistance. In 2008, Toyota bought 16.5% of Fuji Heavy Industries, which includes the Subaru automotive brand. Toyota, led by project leader Tetsuya Tada, then invited Subaru to partner in the project, by co-developing the new D-4S boxer engine. The offer, which conflicted with Subaru 's reputation for high performance all- wheel drive (AWD) cars, was rejected. The project came to a six- month halt before Toyota invited journalists and Subaru engineers to test a developmental prototype.