Scion FR-S News

A direct descendant of the JDM gods Supra, STi, and LFA; the new 2013 Scion FR-S has officially arrived in Tampa Bay! The very first one to roll of the truck took place at Sun Toyota in Holiday, Florida.

Oddly enough, its Scion FR-S twin has only managed to gather 7 percent , the same as the Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0 Turbo, which is still enough to place both higher than the Mazda MX-5 that has secured 4 percent of your votes.

The Scion FR-S has just started hitting the sales floor in numbers and the dealers are coming out of the wood work marking up the the little coupe.

Too bad Toyota couldn't have had a little more fun with the name. The FR-S is known as the Toyota GT-86 in rest of the world, and even wears GT-86 badges on its front panels.

We've known for a while that Mazda has been looking to partner with another automaker, and today the automaker announced it will team up with Alfa Romeo to build a new roadster.

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THREE TO FOUR THOUSAND RPM: This story isn't about the Subaru BRZ.

As we've written a number of times in the past, we assiduously follow trademark filings by Toyota, as well as its Lexus and Scion brands for the clues and insights they provide into future product plans.

The wait is finally over. The FR-S is officially dropping in a few months. After three years of picturesque renderings and prototype vehicles popping up at auto shows, the newest and arguably hottest Scion will be sold at dealerships around the United States in the spring of this year.

Toyota is developing a downloadable telemetry system for the new 86 sports car that will enable owners to download and compare their times and driving styles with top Toyota testers at major circuits around the world via Sony Playstations.

The 2013 Scion FR-S is looked over by spectators Monday before its owner, Brad Dorshorst, receives the keys.

The Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ sports coupes are joined at the hip by a platform-sharing agreement signed by Toyota and Fuji Heavy Industries.

Toyota's Scion is growing up. The marque, hatched in 2003 as the company's "youth" brand, remains its forward agent among the American Millennial generation - but in a new approach to the target, Scion is expanding its heretofore limited vehicle lineup, skewing its advertising more toward traditional themes, and probably ditching the pace-setting ... (more)

This is a story of unlikely scenarios. The first concerns the Subaru BRZ, a rear-wheel-drive sports car from the company famous for making all-wheel-drive station wagons pretending to be SUVs.

Longtime Toyota tuning partner Gazoo Racing will show a concept version of the Toyota GT86 - sold here as the Scion FR-S - at this weekend's 24 Hours of NA1 4rburgring race.

A convertible version of Toyota's 86 is "technically feasible," claims the car's project engineer, although there is no official indication of when such a derivative might be launched.

The Lexus LFA is no stranger to the Nurburgring Nordschleife-it's been racing on the Green Hell since 2008, two years before it was offered to the buying public -but it's bringing some friends to this year's 24 Hours of Nurburgring endurance race party:A a pair of Toyota GT86s.

One of the first of 86 lucky 2013 Scion FR-S owners in America was presented the keys to his new sports car tonight here in the Phoenix area.

Praise for the 2013 Scion FR-S has been nothing short of unanimous, and for good reason.

Toyota has recently launched a new presentation video for its GT 86 sports car in Italian, which means only one thing: that the model is getting ready to be launched in the European country.

MSRP: $24,200 , $25,300 Powertrain: 200-HP 2.0-liter boxer engine, six-speed manual or automatic transmission EPA figures: 22 city, 30 highway, 25 combined If you'd thought to yourself, "man, why doesn't Toyota make a decent, really sporty and mostly affordable car," you wouldn't be alone.