Toyota GT86 (2012 to 2020) | Expert Rating

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“The chassis remains composed while offering so much feedback that, in the driver’s seat, you can almost feel it at work through your backside.”
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“The GT96 shows that just 197bhp is plenty to create a fun coupe.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 8 / 10
“The Toyota GT86 combines great fun and excellent value in a good-looking package.”
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Score: 8 / 10
“Minor tweaks to the GT 86 formula ensure that it stays at the top of the handling pecking order.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 8 / 10
“For the price of a hot hatch the Toyota GT86 offers a true sports coupe experience. Its entertaining handling, distinctive looks and purist focus restrict its appeal to a hardcore of enthusiasts and it suffers in comparison on performance, practicality and running costs.”
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Model reviewed: 2.0 Pro
Score: 9 / 10
“With minor chassis revisions, Toyota’s latest GT86 improves what was already one of the most rewarding rear-wheel-drive coupés on sale.”
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Score: 10 / 10
“The GT86 is the keenest, sharpest, most enjoyable and loveable small sports car for a generation.”
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“At its best, the driving experience of the Toyota GT86 is match for the likes of a Porsche Cayman, but it can’t reach those heights across as broad a range of conditions.”
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Model reviewed: Aero (2015)
Score: 6 / 10
“The Toyota GT86 Aero has essentially taken a very good car, not addressed any of its flaws and made it less likable.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 8 / 10
“What we have here a is very fine sports car indeed, actually shackled by the quality of its own dynamic abilities: amateurs will want more grunt to extract traction-free entertainment at lower speeds, the more talented will want more grunt because… Well, they always do.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 7 / 10
“Unless Toyota comes up with a more flexible engine and sorts out the front suspension we’d rather have a Mazda MX-5 instead.”
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Model reviewed: 2.0-litre
Score: 8 / 10
“What the GT86 lacks in refinement it makes up for in visceral personality.”
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Score: 8 / 10
“You either get the Toyota GT86, or you don’t. Sure, its interior is lacking some polish, there’s not much practicality and it’s not the fastest coupe on the market, but for what it lacks in refinement it makes up for in visceral personality.”
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Model reviewed: Automatic
Score: 8 / 10
“Another few days’ work on the suspension and you’d have something that would be both easier and better to drive.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 9.8 / 10
“The Toyota GT 86 is a real back-to-basics sports coupe. It’s rather low on polish and finesse, but is simply brilliant to drive.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“The Toyota GT86 was developed by a team that wanted to produce the best driver’s car – and very effective they’ve been. But, it’s not the easiest thing to live with in everyday life.”
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Model reviewed:
“The revised Toyota GT86 has the characteristics every self-proclaimed petrol head should lust after.”
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Model reviewed: 2.0
“In busy town centres, the car is guaranteed to turn heads as it coasts by and out on faster lanes, it eats up the miles with ease.”
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“The shape of the GT86 compared to the AE86 is much more rakish but the formula of pedigree road holding, bags of fun and a reasonable price tag remains consistent.”
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Model reviewed: 2.0
“The GT86 is the almost perfect combination of style, power, economy and desirability.”
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Model reviewed: Range review
Score: 8 / 10
“Rarely does something in the motoring world feel ‘just right’ and while the GT86 isn’t without its issues, it comes very close.”
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“The GT86 is a reminder that huge power really isn’t the base requirement for an entertaining driver’s car.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 10 / 10
“The Toyota GT86 may not be an obvious green car , but it’s one of the best driver’s cars currently on sale , it’s a fraction of the cost of many sports cars, and we managed to get 50mpg out of it – so it gets a 10 out of 10 rating.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 7 / 10
“The GT86 is a purist, joyous, Toyota sports car.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 8 / 10
“The GT86 is hugely enjoyable and involving to drive, with great amounts of grip and superb handling.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 8 / 10
“The GT86 costs around half the price of a new Toyota Supra, but it doesn’t deliver half the thrills.”
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“For a generation who grew up playing Need for Speed, there is simply nothing currently for sale that has the same potential to reward enthusiastic driving than the GT86.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 9 / 10
“The GT86 coupe uses the classic sports car layout – front-engine, rear-drive – while also boasting low centre of gravity and good weight balance to achieve the most smiles-per-gallon possible.”
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Model reviewed: Range review
Score: 8.4 / 10
“Enthusiast-sating sports coupe with a degree of practicality”
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Model reviewed:
“Sensible has made way for sensational and this is it… the much-awaited GT86.”
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Model reviewed:
“The GT86 is a motor that puts a bloody big smile on your face.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 10 / 10
“The GT86 is a simply phenomenal drive.”
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Score: 6 / 10
“The Toyota GT86 brings slithery, nimble, rear-wheel-drive entertainment into the realm of road-legal speeds. It’s a fabulous enthusiast’s car and an absolute hoot to drive on the right road. Unfortunately, on every other road it’s a bit of a chore.”
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Model reviewed: Blue
Score: 9 / 10
“The GT86 may be more fun eight years on from launch.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“The simplest and most exciting Toyota in years is also a real pleasure to drive.”
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Model reviewed:
Score: 8 / 10
“The GT86 is still quite comfortable as sports cars go, with a ride that manages to soak up large shocks from speed bumps, potholes and even motorway expansion joints, yet isn’t so soft that it allows the car to roll a great deal in the bends.”
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“The Toyota GT86 is hugely impressive to drive, but it does have its flaws and doesn’t quite make the grade as a Which? Best Buy.”
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