{"id":303295,"date":"2010-02-10T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/10\/rumormill-has-toyota-scrapped-the-design-of-the-ft-86\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:55:00","slug":"rumormill-has-toyota-scrapped-the-design-of-the-ft-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303295","title":{"rendered":"Rumormill: Has Toyota scrapped the design of the FT-86?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/coupes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coupe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/euro\/\" rel=\"tag\">Europe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/japan\/\" rel=\"tag\">Japan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/toyota\/\" rel=\"tag\">Toyota<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/rumormill\/\" rel=\"tag\">Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/tokyo-2009-toyota-ft-86-concept\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/63086.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><small>Toyota FT-86 concept &#8211; click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\nThis is&#8230; odd. But here&#8217;s the very long story short. Japan&#8217;s Holiday Autos is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/make\/toyota\">Toyota<\/a> has decided to scrap the design of the so far pretty much beloved <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/tage\/ft-86\">FT-86<\/a>. Don&#8217;t worry, the FT-86 and its rear-wheel drive, simple, cheap, sporty self isn&#8217;t in danger. Toyota had three competing designs to work worth and have picked one that they liked better than the car we saw in Tokyo. That is their right and privilege.<\/p>\n<p>This new design is reportedly the work of a Northern American design team also known as Calty Design Research, beating out Toyota&#8217;s other European and Japanese proposals. The European team is responsible for the FT-86 concept we&#8217;ve seen so far. Trouble is, we have no idea what this new car looks like <em>and<\/em> we like how the concept looked. FT86club.com has a rendering of what the new car may look like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/?p=128\">posted here<\/a>. But again, who knows? Especially as Holiday Autos doesn&#8217;t strike us as the most trustworthy of sources. We&#8217;ll try to do some digging and keep you posted. <em>Tip of the floppy fedora to Cameron!<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/tokyo-2009-toyota-ft-86-concept\/low\/\">Tokyo 2009: Toyota FT-86 Concept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/tokyo-2009-toyota-ft-86-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/10\/toyotaft86live_01_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/tokyo-2009-toyota-ft-86-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/10\/toyotaft86live_02_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/tokyo-2009-toyota-ft-86-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/10\/toyotaft86live_03_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/tokyo-2009-toyota-ft-86-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/10\/toyotaft86live_04_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/tokyo-2009-toyota-ft-86-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/10\/toyotaft86live_05_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: Holiday Autos via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft86club.com\/?p=128\">FT-86club.com<\/a>]<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/10\/rumormill-has-toyota-scrapped-the-design-of-the-ft-86\/\">Rumormill: Has Toyota scrapped the design of the FT-86?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:55:00 EST.  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Japan&#8217;s Holiday Autos is reporting that Toyota has decided to scrap the design of the so far pretty much beloved FT-86. Don&#8217;t worry, the FT-86 and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}