Toyota GT86 for beginners?
Hello everyone
I passed my driving test a year ago and have been driving a subcompact car with little power ever since. I'm now looking for a different car. I really like the Toyota GT86. However, I've seen in all the videos and reports that drifting is very easy, which worries me a little as a "novice driver."
Does anyone have experience with this car? Is it possible to drive the car normally without the rear end skidding?
I like to drive faster sometimes, but with a risk-conscious driving style.
Many thanks and kind regards
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If you don’t want to drift, you can just make better tires on it. So that even the most incapable driver can drift with it and feel like a hero, Toyota makes the exact same tires on it as with the Prius. They are, of course, all but sporty and the rum slip also costs a lot of time in curves.
O.K., this car is a dream car if you don’t have to skip a family. However, it is not price-value. As a reliable used car you have to expect 16,000,– € to 20,000,– €. Otherwise, the thing has a hook. The consumption costs are high. If you can wear this as a starter, you should definitely make a driving safety training. Otherwise it’s Highway to Hell.
For the first time, the relatively little one uses for what it offers, then it is very controlled and suitable for a beginners thanks to the suction motor.
Then you’ll get more fun on the one good-natured sports car for small money than some thick ships of German manufacturers with more than double performance…
200 horses need hay. But the insurance premiums are not to be underestimated for starters under 23.
Insurance premium?
The BRZ falls below the type class 18, the GT86 below the type class 17.
A Stinknormal Golf IV 1.9 TDI falls here in the class 19. So it’s more expensive. In case of cash insurance, it becomes a little more expensive at the BRZ, but let’s leave the church in the village…
The GTI is crap. Front-loaded, understeering as usual, prone engine, disgusting sound and totally overpriced…
The Golf GTI is nothing for beginners. That the GT86 is a great vehicle is completely undisputed.
The insurance may be minimally higher than for example at a golf 6 GTI with 211 hp, for this you have the much more reliable and fun car under the butt that you can easily build up if you want it.
The car is light and has a good CW value, which means that consumption is even lower than that of the above mentioned golf 😉
So, after writing a lot of nonsense here, I write as someone who has already driven the GT86 as well as his brother, the Subaru BRZ himself several times, even in rain and over curvy land roads.
The car is simply a dream, very sporty and hardly to bite at driving fun!
He’s good-natured and if you put it on it you can learn how to drift! It’s just important that you look that it’s a GT86 with differential on the rear axle… They’re more value-stable, or you’re gonna get a BRZ that just gave it to you.
To get the full potential out of this car and really get to know it, I recommend you to make 1-2 security trainings as well as just as many drift trainings (the latter are even offered directly for the GT86 and BRZ).
Here are two matching videos. Once to the GT86, once to the BRZ!
https://youtu.be/flrADY_MiG8
https://youtu.be/13xlLxVgiF8
By the way, both men in these videos have been driving test drivers and cars with more than 3 times of performance, yet both are bright on the GT86/BRZ, simply because there is nothing comparable from the market!
Short note, just to add before someone gets around for hours:
It is only important that you look that it is a GT86 with differential on the rear axle
With self-lock differential. A differential should be installed in all:D
You just need to let ESP on, then it’s easy to keep everything under control. If you don’t want to drift, you can also take more grips on tyres (the standard tyre is deliberately low to allow you to drift better). Also recommend trying a Mazda MX-5, imo the better car. The current generation of Chevrolet Camaro is also great.
Why can’t you drive it normal? Every car can be moved normally by road, whether 50 or 500ps.
When it comes to the driver.
Yes and no.
No, I’m driving my car “normal” and I can do it. But if I stand at the traffic light and want to turn left, I usually cross this with a lot of gas. On the other hand, I don’t get from the place that’s so easy in the stern that I can hardly transmit any strength without passing wheels. Or on the slope. On the slope, I often have to cross because I need the rotating wheels to transmit power at all. And snow chains are usually not worth it, as 40 meters further the next main road comes and is cleared there.
So cross and much (dosed) gas.
This has nothing to do with how good the driver is. A good driver can only control. But trust me, I’ve often tried to get my wheels off the slope without turning them through.
And when I talk about the slope, I mean slope, not landscape increase, which is just so noticeable with the water balance.
Why so much performance and such an expensive car? And you say driving licences don’t drive school otherwise all think that is mentally impaired.
Where are you reading driving school? Mentally impaired?
In my opinion, 200hp is not too much performance. And the car is not expensive either.
What are you doing here if you can’t answer a question, but rather report your must?
You can drive “normal” with each car and without being crossed or rotating wheels. What do you learn in the driving school?
The GT 86 is fun.
That sounds like “I wash myself regularly, but don’t make me wet.”
You’re a beginner, point.
The probability that you’re having a serious driving error with this car, I guess.
A very nice car. Why not. As many fun brakes as are installed in the car, you can’t even cross without pressing 20 buttons before half an hour 😀
It is possible to drive this car normally. In winter, however, you sometimes simply need to turn-through tires to get off the stain. With a rear buoyer, light at the back, of course, this is a special fun and also leads to the fact that you have to drive cross – I can imagine, so it is with me. But I’ve never got a step up from the idiotic 😀
Take a ride safety training. Or two, or three. Or just every few years. This is important, so you learn to control the car. Crossing is not your opponent, sometimes even can help you. If I can give undertaxes on ice, the car comes with the stern and I can still get the curve. So it’s not just bad if you can cross.
I’m not sure how it was. But maybe you should look at the Subaru BRZ. If I was quite out of mind, the clear value-stable-but it is the same car, except for the logo and small things.