Matt Prior
TESTER’S NOTES
Subaru BRZ is more individual now, but we won’t get to enjoy it
M y colleagues at Autocar Japan have tested the new Subaru BRZ and Toyota GR 86 back to back.
You might recall that the original BRZ and GT86 were mechanically identical, and if there was a difference between the two in the way that they drove, at most it would have been via minor suspension geometry and tyre-pressure changes – or imagined. I like the Toyobaru so much that it’s my favourite car of the past decade.
This time around, the differences are supposed to be greater. As before, Subaru is looking after the general development and build of the cars, and while both still share common hardware, Autocar Japan reports that Toyota has a team embedded at Subaru and the collaboration is deeper, which gave both sets of engineers the opportunity to set out more clearly what they wanted.