GT86 engineers explored shooting brake and sedan variants

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GT86 engineers explored shooting brake and sedan variants

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Toyota GT86 engineers explored shooting brake and sedan variants, are they still in the cards?
Autoblog wrote:According to the Toyota UK blog, engineers for the automaker were so excited developing the GT86 coupe that they investigated producing a whole family of models based on the rear-wheel drive sports car. And at least one engineer – product chief Tetsuya Tada – still hopes it can happen, even if not everyone at Toyota is onboard. Tada: "Actually we tried to do this secretly but the executives found us out. They said: 'What are you doing? Will you please focus on the coupe.'"

Those mooted variants included both a four-door sedan and a shooting brake. Why? Aside from the pure excellence of a lightweight, brilliantly handling hatchback, Toyota was keenly aware of the fact that it may need to spread the cost of development out across several models. Tada says that's part of the reason why it was so easy to create the convertible. The company knew from the outset that a softtop version was in the cards, and built the machine's structure to accommodate having the roof sliced off.

Tada also made mention of the already-announced collaboration between Toyota and BMW. The engineer said that the GT86 was particularly helpful because it demonstrated just how successful a product conceived and designed by two different companies can be. While he didn't say exactly what Toyota and BMW are up to, it's clear the two are looking into a number of possibilities.
Turbo BRZ shooting brake, mmmmmmm :drool: :drive: :wiggle: :pimp: :popcorn:
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It's pretty old news that they are regurgatating. It was prolly a slow news day. Tada san has always wanted shooting brakes, verts, etc..
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Mr Kleen wrote:Turbo BRZ shooting brake, mmmmmmm :drool: :drive: :wiggle: :pimp: :popcorn:
it would be like a modern day clown shoe (i.e. first gen BMW M Coupe). DO WANT; perfect commuter car.
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That would be pretty badass :)
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It was news to me.

Now please enter in my order for a BRG BRZ STI shooting brake, good sir. :mrgreen:
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It's news to everybody bro. On the FT86 forums news is "old" very quickly. The members are varied between average joes to the head engineers behind the cars. I still think that we are at least a year or two away from any "new" variant vert, sedan, hatch, s-brake etc..
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