Scion FR-S News

Well, that was quick. Just a handful of weeks after its launch in Japan, the GT 86 has already been gutted and fitted with a Lexus IS F V-8 engine for use in D1 Grand Prix drift events by Manabu "Max" Orido's team. It's a classic idea, shoving a big V-8 in a small, light car, but that's not the...

With Scion yesterday announcing that its new FR-S sports car jointly developed with Toyota and Subaru will start at $24,930 (including destination) when it goes on sale later this spring, the big question now is how much its BRZ twin from Subaru will cost. While the two cars are virtually...

Buyers in the market for a lightweight, bare bones sports car with rear-wheel drive dynamics and a punchy boxer engine need look no further than the 2013 Scion FR-S, which goes on sale this spring priced from $24,930 including $730 in destination charges. That price gets you the standard model...

Toyota has confirmed earlier reports that U.S. customers won't be getting decontented, tuner-ready FR-S models.

Toyota is building a decontented version of its GT 86 coupe for Japanese customers looking to build track cars, and Subaru will do the same with its BRZ.

It probably comes as little surprise that the new GT 86 sports car, the global version of the U.S. market 2013 Scion FR-S, will be the star of Toyota's stand at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon taking place this weekend. For the uninitiated, the Tokyo Auto Salon is essentially the Japanese version of SEMA...

Eighty-six individuals will get to own one of the first 2013 Scion FR-S models beginning this Thursday.

Scion, through its Scion Racing division and several other partners, currently competes in the exciting world of Formula DRIFT using a heavily modified tC, which being a front-wheel drive car in its original state is sure to have some major compromises when it comes to the fine art of drifting...

The Toyota GT-86 family of coupes has finally seen its third member unveiled in the sheet metal at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. There's nothing to surprise us with the 2013 Scion FR-S, as it gets its power from the same 2.0-liter boxer four-cylinder engine rated at 200 horsepower and 151 pound-feet...

Honoring one's ancestors is key to Japanese culture, and a new video shows the Toyota GT 86 on track with Toyota's very first sports car, the Sports 800.

The 2012 Detroit Auto Show is still more than a month away but Scion has decided to reveal its star attraction, the brand new 2013 Scion FR-S. Essentially a rebadged version of the Toyota GT 86 sports car we saw at this week’s 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, the new FR-S features a number of...

Meet the new Toyota GT 86 or 2013 Scion FR-S as it will be known in the U.S., the long-awaited production version of the string of FT-86 concept cars seen over the past couple of years. Making its official world debut later this week at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, the stylish sports coupe harks back...

With the unveiling of its FR-S Concept back at the 2011 New York Auto Show, Scion showed us that even models intended to be affordable can look quite exotic. Despite still being a concept, most of the FR-S show car’s lines are expected to transfer faithfully to the production 2012 Scion FR-S...

We’ve already seen a string of concept cars and more than a dozen spy shots, but now we have an exclusive spy video of the upcoming rear-wheel drive sports coupe being developed jointly by Toyota and Subaru. In the U.S. Toyota’s version of the car will be known as the 2012 Scion FR-S...

Both Toyota and Subaru are scheduled to unveil their own separate versions of their jointly developed rear-wheel drive sports car at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show this December, and while we’ve seen and heard plenty of Toyota’s version (nee Scion FR-S), not much is known about...