yella wrote:Its shafted itself at £28k
I mean thats, BMW 125i Coupe, BMW Z4, Nissan 370z, Golf Edition 35, Audi TT and so on Money
I'm not getting the value for money arguments.
The Toyota is two litres, 197bhp, 1180kg, ~28k.
The poverty spec Z4 is two litres, 184bhp, 1480kg, £29,480.
The poverty spec front wheel drive TT is two litres, 208bhp, 1295kg, £27,140
Why would any Golf, in a frock or otherwise, be worth GT86 money? A basic Golf is a 16 grand car. SEAT think an uglier Golf with the turbo turned up to 11 is worth 26k and people think that's value?
The 370Z is looking quite bargainous at the moment - though that's because they can't sell the things, because they are too expensive to tax and fuel. It might not feel as if it was quite so much of a bargain when you try to trade it in, either. While the Nissan will be quicker than the Toyota and make a nicer noise, I suspect that the Toyota is going to have much nicer handling. I thought our RX-8 was a better driver's car than our 350Z is, despite the difference in straight line go, and I expect that the GT86 will stack up against the 370Z similarly.
I think the performance is adequate - it's going to be about as quick as an EP3. I think they'll sell fewer at 28k than they would at 20k, of course they will, they'd sell even more if they priced it at £2.50, and it's a shame that a lot of potential buyers will be priced out of the market, but if that's what Toyota have to sell it at to make money on it, that's how it is. If you don't want to pay the premium for a rear drive chassis specifically (and expensively) developed for this kind of car, buy a mass produced hatchback instead, where the development costs are shared with hundreds of thousands of diesel shopping cars.