The first bite of FT-86

Song played on my Personal BGM: Freaky by Koda Kumi

From the Album: Kingdom

The FT-86 Concept burns through the streets of Madrid

At the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota unveiled the FT-86 Concept to the public and this concept sports car draws a vision of what will the 21st century Hachiroku will look like. IT was a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (makers of Subaru cars) and it pays homage to the Sprinter Trueno AE86, one of the most popular Toyota sports cars in the past. With Toyota Motor Corporation having close ties with the Gran Turismo franchise, they decided to immortalize the FT-86 Concept as one of the playable cars of this game. Since this is utterly new, it was listed as a Premium Tier car.

Testing its capabilities at Fuji Speedway

Most GT5 players already have one of these future Toyota sports car because it is attainable by winning the FR Challenge at the Beginners Series A-Spec. When fully tuned, the FT86 Concept can go as much as 374HP/8700rpm worth of power output, 239ft-lb/7400rpm of torque output, weighs 890kg, and 516 Performance Points. That was from mine so results may vary.

TOKYO DRIFT!

For those who think that the FT86 Concept is not good enough because turbo is not its necessity, the FT86 G Sports Concept is their turbocharged alternative. Appeared at the 2010 Tokyo Auto Salon as part of launching Toyota's new G Sports (G's) line-up, the FT86 G Sports Concept is a revision of the FT86 Concept but with some aggressive touches such as the carbon fiber hood, sporty G Sports rims, and a rear spoiler that fits well to be called the "Takumi Fujiwara" of the future.

Resting its engine at Lucerne Chapel Bridge

Most of them already have one because they won it as a prize car at the FR Challenge B-Spec race. Once fully tuned, the FT86 G Sports Concept can achieve 382HP/7900rpm of power, 255ft-lb/7400rpm of torque, weighs 910kg, and it has 517 Performance Points. Not quite good with its statistics but it sure is a collector's item. Little known fact that the FT86 G Sports Concept comes with the Maziora paint that is uniquely pearlescent (GT5 calls it Color Shift) and it comes 9 Maziora colors such as Maziora Everest, Maziora McKenley, Maziora Matterhorn, Maziora Mazeran, Maziora Seyfert, Maziora Trapezium, Maziora Plreadesll, Maziora Andromeda, and Maziora Andromedall. Think you can collect them all if one FT86 G Sports Concept costs 500,000 credits? If not, you still have a chance getting one of those paint jobs as a log-in bonus. Probability can be 5%.

Brothers in arms

They're showing it who's got the nerve
to be on the production line!

Having both the FT86 concept and the FT86 G Sports concept immortalized on GT5 is such a great idea because both Toyota Motor Corporation and Gran Turismo have close ties. As in real life, when will they come out in production form? Time will tell but in the meantime, you have to make do with these concept Toyota sports cars on GT5.