{"id":421650,"date":"2010-03-12T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=52967"},"modified":"2010-03-12T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:58:30","slug":"report-subaru-ditches-all-wheel-drive-plans-for-its-version-of-toyota-ft-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421650","title":{"rendered":"Report: Subaru ditches all-wheel-drive plans for its version of Toyota FT-86"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Subaru and Toyota’s new rear-wheel-drive sports car, based on the Toyota FT-86 Concept, is ready to make its debut later next year. It was reported in Dec. 2009<\/a> that Subaru, which is well known for being an all-wheel-drive brand, is worried that a rear-wheel-drive sports car may drive away loyal customers.<\/p>\n

Well, it seems like Subaru doesn’t really care anymore. Reports coming out of Japan say that Subaru may drop the idea of offering an all-wheel-drive version of the Toyota FT-86 altogether due to added cost involved with the conversion from rear-wheel-drive to all-wheel-drive.<\/p>\n

We’re guessing that means the only difference between the Toyota FT-86 and Subaru’s version will be the design.<\/p>\n

Click here for more news on the Toyota FT-86 Concept<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Refresher<\/strong>: Inspired by the sporty 1980s Corolla AE86, the production version of the FT-86 is reported to be powered by a 200-hp 2.0L boxer Subaru engine\u00a0sending power to the rear-wheels. Prices are set to start above $20,000.<\/p>\n

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– By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: BestCar (via 7Tune<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Subaru and Toyota’s new rear-wheel-drive sports car, based on the Toyota FT-86 Concept, is ready to make its debut later next year. It was reported in Dec. 2009 that Subaru, which is well known for being an all-wheel-drive brand, is worried that a rear-wheel-drive sports car may drive away loyal customers. Well, it seems like […]<\/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-421650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421650","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=421650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}