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Years in the making, long spied at test tracks around the world, and often displayed at auto shows, Scion’s new 2013 FR-S is now just weeks away from hitting showrooms along with being just a few weeks away from making its international racing debut. The Scion FR-S, or more accurately, its...

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...

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...

Built as a pit support vehicle for some unknown division of motorsport, the Pit Boss Cartel 2012 Scion iQ epitomizes over-the-top SEMA modification in pursuit of a largely pointless goal. But it still looks pretty cool. The chopped, shaved, and otherwise cut-up iQ sports an air ride suspension, a...

Scion has prepped three of its upcoming iQ minicars for the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show kicking off in Las Vegas this week. Like most years, the specialist show is hosting an array of full-blooded customized cars and the new iQ is right in amongst the action. The three...

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...

It's enough to make the car enthusiast's skin crawl. Visions of autonomous cars making their way along the highway while the occupants go about their daily business. If you love driving and cars, handing over control of your car to a machine is like handing over a child. Bill Reinert, a mechanical...

We’ve already seen the live shots of it but now here are the official specs and studio shots of Toyota’s, make that, Scion’s new FR-S sports coupe concept. The stunning two-door is the latest iteration of Toyota’s FT-86 concept line, which began with the original FT-86 from...

Toyota has been busy refining its Subaru-powered FT-86 concept for a year and a half now, and its entry level, youthful arm has finally gotten in on the fun. Scion will be the make behind the FT-86 production car here in the United States, and with less than a year to go before the model launches...

The 2011 New York Auto Show will feature many concepts, but one of them will be a Scion--and it looks like it'll be based on the Toyota FT-86 concept, potentially bearing the FR-S name we reported on last October. There's no doubt the car in the video shares the same proportions and lines as the...

Jailbreaking your iPhone may be legal now, but that doesn't mean the UI perfectionistas at Apple will let other megacorporations have their way with the lovely walled garden that is the iPhone. Two tech sites report today that Apple has come down on Toyota for promoting an app that puts custom...