GR86 GR86 Confessions

Silver Fox said:
My proudest moment!

I shall tell my partner because, oddly, she doesn't consider this to be a strength of mine...
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Hmmmm , you also get a “Bravery Award” 🎖 for telling your partner you pay more attention to some bloke on a car forum than her 😳, I wouldn’t , but go for it and let me know how you get on 👍🤣
 
LU71KEE said:
After all this time I’m worried that it’s not going to ‘feel’ special. It’s amazing to have a car that’s RWD, N/A and at a decent price point but arguably it is only slightly better than basic on the inside.

After putting on a lot of lockdown weight I’m genuinely worried I might not fit behind the wheel being a portly fellow 😂 which is both sad, true and funny at the same time.

I love the Supra, I wish I’d never sat in one , and if they ever decided to put the wobbly stick in the 2.0 I’ll be moving the 86 on to get one without a second thought (at least at the moment)
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If you think a GT/GR86 is a bit of a tight fit I doubt you will find the Supra any less forgiving to those who are running a full-size spare tyre 🤔😉
 
AndyRC said:
Hmmmm , you also get a “Bravery Award” 🎖 for telling your partner you pay more attention to some bloke on a car forum than her 😳, I wouldn’t , but go for it and let me know how you get on 👍🤣
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Brave, but not THAT brave...
 
In all seriousness, I don't like the duck tail (heck, I don't even think they look good on the 911 2.7 RS), would love rear parking sensors (London innit) and prefer the wheels painted in gunmetal grey or kept unpainted. I'm also worried that I won't be driving this car much as it will be parked in a garage 20 minutes away.

Last thing I'd want is to be accused of treating it as a garage queen or worse, a flipper if I move it on having done very few mile with it. 🤣
 
My confession is that it won't get used very much.

It'll be my last ever new car to myself.

It won't ever see a salted road, and will only get caught in the rain if I miss calculate the weather.

Garage queen, and used for enjoyment.

The next owner will be very happy.

But they won't be able to thank me, I'll be toast.

If I'd known now, what I couldn't have known back then, I'd have kept one of my AE86's forever.

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AndyRC said:
Having come from a couple of 6.2l V8 AMG C63 one with over 500bhp , no LSD and only 9inch of rubber at the back , treat it with respect , drive it like it’s always wanting to kill you , find the limits gradually and treat wet or greasy roads with extreme caution and you should avoid a ditch, wall , tree hospital or any combination thereof 👍🤣

PS I find having the CEO in the passenger seat seriously slows things down too 😉
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Good advice, thanks!

Will winter tyres be a requirement do you think?
 
Darrellium said:
Good advice, thanks!

Will winter tyres be a requirement do you think?
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I never bothered, just treat it with respect , especially when it’s cold , saying that I never ventured out when it was icy or potentially snowing, captain sensible, but I never binned it 😎
 
I love how it will be a car that trains it's driver. Last time I had RWD I was a different person. Since then I learned all I could with FWD so wanted RWD to make driving feel brand new again. I love how if the car goes fast point to point it's because I made it happen. No tricks, no special modes. Just me and the controls.

Hates? None so far on the car. People expecting me to justify my purchase will get tiresome and the usual questions will be:
  • Why did you get a "slow" car? My Fiesta, etc is faster
  • Why not something practical again?
  • You shouldn't be spending all that on a car
  • Why not go electric?
  • You should've bought an old BMW instead for the same money
There are more but I never answer these people. Their minds are too small. I don't judge them when IMO they make bad car choices. You buy a car for yourself and no one else.
 
My confession is that if it's practical enough for my daily needs, my second car will go and I could end up doing lots of miles in it. I'm planning on doing 10K miles in it anyway, but this could increase to 20-25K miles per year if I go down to one car. I do have a guilty pleasure of wanting to put too many miles on nice cars, or cars that most people wouldn't consider driving everyday / on long journeys. Anyone want a 10 year old GR86 with 250K miles on it, FSH and one careful owner. 😁
 
OPC100 said:
Anyone want a 10 year old GR86 with 250K miles on it, FSH and one careful owner. 😁
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When a friend of mine sadly passed away I was asked to take his car to a garage to be sold.

It was a BMW 330i that he'd owned from new, and commuted in.

180,000 miles, and it drove perfectly.

Would loved to have been able to ask him what maintainence he'd had along the way, but it didn't feel worn in any way.

I'm sure the GR will cope just fine.
 
My confession?

I scolded it when the first images were released of the BRZ. I said the interior belonged in a Land Rover Defender and that it looked ugly, the front looked like a frog and the rear an Insignia.

Still not sure on the interior but it's definitely not ugly :ROFLMAO:
 
Personal taste but I really dislike the unpainted plastic trim on rear bumpers of GT/GR86.

IMO unless you opted for white makes it look cheap. Why not just colour code or spray it black.

Aside from that love everything else about it. A set of nicer callipers and coloured seat belts would have been the icing on the cake though.
 
I don't like the ducktail either. It looks like a cheap afermarket bolt on. It couldn't say 18 year old's Barry boy special from Halfords any more if it tried. Unless you track the car more than you daily it then all it is doing is increasing fuel consumption. In case anyone is in doubt I won't be buying one :ROFLMAO:

Interior needs red door card inserts too and the seat stripe needs to be red. And I prefer the back end of the GT86, too much Insignia for me.

Ah,, feel better for that.
 
Only 2 concerns i can see so far. The main being the steering wheel. My current ST has the flat bottom steering wheel which i love and going back to normal is a bit meh for me personally. Second is the cup holder/arm rest. Apparently the button to open is right where your elbow is and so you end up opening it when resting, but also just the fact its the main storage for phone etc and an arm rest doesn't really sit with me but i guess will have to see when we get to see them.
 
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