Upcoming Toyota FT-86 will be more expensive due to development costs

The Toyota FT-86, which will arrive late next year, will be more expensive due to the growing development costs, according to an insider. At last year’s Toyota motor show, the concept car was introduced.

Back then, a Toyota engineer had stated that they were targeting an entry-level price in Japan of around $20,000. But the Subaru boxer engine intended for the car was deemed to not be that clean or fuel-efficient and so its R&D team is placing its focus on minimizing fuel consumption and coming up with the cleanest engine possible. Aiming for such goals could lead to the car being priced from $23,000 to $26,000.
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Joe_Limon - 4/21/2010 12:10:46 PM

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oooh ouch, the hippies got ahold of the car... $20k was such a nice price too.

quizz - 4/21/2010 1:19:06 PM

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turbo, direct injection is key.

LexSucks - 4/21/2010 1:57:39 PM

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More expensive, but still just as slow.

pennfootball - 4/21/2010 2:26:50 PM

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I knew they would mess it up

pennfootball - 4/21/2010 2:31:14 PM

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This is why Toyota will die, they target OLD people and sell crap no young people want eliminating future customers...all my friends drive Fords, Nissan's, Jeeps, Porsche's and a few have Ferrari's

PerformanceGuy - 4/21/2010 4:10:13 PM

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Bad move. The younger people that this car would have appealed to won't me ablt to afford it and the people that will be able to afford it, will not want it! Oh well, it was never on my list anyway.

dlin - 4/21/2010 4:12:06 PM

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It can be more expensive if it's got 300 hp. Otherwise, forget it.

Joe_Limon - 4/21/2010 4:26:10 PM

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+1, it's entering the price range of other 300+ hp cars. The 160hp engine they have in this thing won't cut it, and neither will a more expensive 200hp version.

theoptimisticpessimist - 4/21/2010 4:50:56 PM

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Hey at least it RWD and light years better than the God-awful Honda CR-Z.

raikkonen - 4/21/2010 4:53:32 PM

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Well Toyota realized that working brakes would cost more - not the cheapo garbage they were getting away with for so long.

Typical Japanese cost-cutting. Maybe they should have copied the brakes from Mercedes - copied just about everything else from them.

Joe_Limon - 4/21/2010 5:12:29 PM

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Hmmm... I don't see why they are finding it hard to reach that $20k price tag. They are now forcing their suppliers to provide them parts 30% cheaper than before.

mpls - 4/21/2010 8:22:03 PM

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raikkonen ..

yeah right.. you sour kraut..

Joe_Limon - 4/21/2010 11:43:09 PM

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So you are claiming that because Toyota made some defective product, they are going to take their frusterations out on the consumer by focusing their sports car more towards fuel economy then performance and jacking up the price by as much as 6 grand? Touche good sir. I never would have guessed that.

Joe_Limon - 4/22/2010 9:38:07 AM

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really? No defective Toyota product? ahahahahaha. kudos my friend, you are so blindly in love with Toyota that you can't admit they are wrong even when Toyota comes out and says that they were wrong on numerous occasions.

tattedtwice - 4/22/2010 1:01:57 AM

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Gotta recoup the costs of recalls and replacement parts and dealership o/t and insurance company paybacks and damage-control adverstising and fines and the inevitable class-action suits....

kpaxx - 4/22/2010 8:47:47 AM

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Still birth!

kpaxx - 4/22/2010 8:48:39 AM

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Didn't they follow this program with the Celica and it failed!

Whelan - 4/22/2010 10:08:17 AM

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They screwed it up, are calling it the Solara so it's now officially the Camry Coupe. Figures they would mess up such a great potential.