The creation of the Toyota 86 and the mostly identical Subaru BRZ was designed to revive the enthusiast market keen to let rip in a relatively lightweight, back to basics, rear-wheel drive coupé. Given the global interest, and also right here in Australia, it’s fair to say things are going to plan so far.
Part of the car’s rationale was also to keep costs to a minimum. In its purest form the Toybaru won’t be a luxury cruiser, it will be a basic template for owners to build upon and tailor to their exacting needs.
At this point in time local pricing has not been announced, but it’s widely accepted you’re going to need somewhere in the vicinity of $40K to play ball. They might be less, but not significantly so.
In the United States the Toyota 86 is sold as the Scion FR-S and their entry-level pricing has just been announced.
$24,200.
It’s not the first time we’ve whinged about AU$–US$ pricing on AUSmotive, and with our still quite advantageous exchange rate it remains a bitter pill.
[Source: WCF]
7 replies on “Reality bites”
So pissed that we are going to be close to double the price…
Yeah I get that the car wont sell in the same value of the USA… but double the price is just not fair!!!
:'(
Oh well just have to suck it up.
I don’t understand why some of our so-called motoring journos don’t take just one car [like this one!] and ask Subaru and Toyota to explain the pricing differences in detail,rather than fobbing us of with the usual spin and “fluctuations” guff.
If they’re going to f#*k us over,at least buy us dinner…….
Settle down! You can’t have Commodores and Falcons and still expect to pay world competitive prices!
Oh dear, what did I say!
GTI prices and get raped by a GTI all day everyday…………up with the people toyota ya bunch of clowns.
I wonder if it will have the fantastic Toyota fixed price service :)) that will make it worth the extra 10k
Here we go again. You girls have the best standard of living in Australia, over any other country in the world, bar none. The price you pay for consumer goods, including cars, is all part of the matrix of public health, infrastructure, social security and even space and peace. If you want cheap cars, go and live in downtown Detroit for a month.
$40k for this car is still a bargain. Hehe, just wish I had it. 😀
At the price expected you may as well de-badge it and put a Lexus badge on hahahaha
Hey I wonder if it’ll attract a 10c refund when sold in South Australia when they all get crushed for hoon driving? hahahaha, that’s about all they’re worth….
What re-sale value are you going to get if every one of them gets mod’d and thrashed within an inch of its life?
None…
Good luck with the sales Toyota
Good luck with the re-sale suckers!