Toyota GT-86 Vs Mazda MX-5 RF - Which Is The Better Two Seater?

Refreshment comes in many forms. Last night’s cold pint in the Y Pengwern guest house certainly met the criteria. The gale-force weather in north Wales this morning is refreshing, too, albeit less welcome as it tries to strip the hat from my head and turns evo photographer Aston Parrott’s tripod into something from an HG Wells novel. Also being battered by the weather are two rear-wheel-drive, naturally aspirated sports cars with manual gearshifts and small footprints. Paddling alone in a sea of turbocharged hot hatchbacks, there’s something very refreshing about both of them.

In the grey corner is Toyota’s GT86, recently facelifted to mixed effect and still powered by a 1998cc boxer unit with a power figure just shy of 200 horses. Its crisp white opponent is the Mazda  MX-5 RF – not, as the roofline suggests, a coupe, but a ‘retractable fastback’. Think 991-generation 911 Targa in both concept and execution, or early-’90s Honda CR-X Del Sol if you’re feeling cruel.

LexSucks - 12/13/2017 3:58:23 PM

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Dexter1 - 12/14/2017 6:27:20 AM

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Ha ha ha

MBguy - 12/13/2017 6:58:03 PM

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Except that the Toyota 86 isn't a 2-seater! It has a back seat (albeit, quite small).

MDarringer - 12/13/2017 7:28:15 PM

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The Mazda because you can show horn in a Ford V8 very easily. The GT86 is just another rattly old Subaru.

xjug1987a - 12/16/2017 6:34:09 PM

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Amazing how you never get any love, I + you just to get to-2....

MDarringer - 12/16/2017 8:37:33 PM

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The hilarity is that people think they can make me sad because they vote me down. Actually, I laugh because I matter enough to the morons to vote me down and yet they matter not a wit to me. I am the one winning. I'm not giving them a second thought but they are transfixed on making sure I'm voted down. They must have small "lives" so to speak.