The first Scion FR-S was handed over to the excited new owner on May 3rd 2012. He was handed the keys to his brand new white Scion FR-S. Surrounded by media, he fired up the Scion FR-S and gave the engine a few little revs. It sounds like the excitement begins as we will start to see some Scion FR-S' on the road! Keep your eyes peeled for them!
On this episode of Ignition, Carlos Lago finds out if the 2013 Scion FR-S blazes a new trail for affordable, real-wheel drive enthusiast cars. Pro racer Randy Pobst also gets in on the action, pushing the FR-S to its performance limits with hot laps around Streets of Willow racetrack.
FIVE:AD, or Five Axis Design, a company specializing in tuning Japanese cars, announced their first aero kit for the 2013 Scion FR-S. The new sports car is yet to be launched in the American market, but already tuners have come up with all kind of treatments for it. They have even made a Speedster version of the FR-S, which was nice.
InsideLine had the opportunity to take their Scion FR-S to MD Automotive in Westminster, CA to put it on the dyno machine. Since this is a brand new 2.0L four cylinder engine setup, they weren't sure what to expect. Take a look at the video to see the Scion FR-S in action and see the official horsepower and torque numbers.
Ken Gushi gives Super Street magazine the first look at his Scion Racing/GReddy FR-S in ACTION as he prepares for the 2012 Formula Drift season, and tells us what makes the FR-S so special!
Catch the EXCLUSIVE full magazine feature with complete technical breakdown in the AUGUST 2012 issue of Super Street!
Special thanks to: Scion, Scion Racing, Ken Gushi, Kenji Sumino, GReddy Performance Products and BOWLS LA
The Scion FR-S price tease has been going on so long we almost forgot that the price information hasn't been released for any of them. We've heard a Scion FR-S Price "Below 30" and a price "around 25" thrown around, but nothing official.
But now we have unofficial word that the 2013 Scion FR-S price... [Read More]
Curious about the Scion FR-S mpg numbers? Official EPA fuel efficiency figures have been posted on fueleconomy.gov, and it appears the 2.0L four-cylinder powered Scion FR-S will get 22 - mpg city, 30 - mpg highway.
Those are the figures for the manual-equipped models, while the automatic Scion FR-S should get around 25 - mpg city, 34 - mpg highway.
Scion has always been a friend to the automotive aftermarket, and with the new Scion FR-S, the tuner sect is about to get even more friendly with the brand. Evidence of this close relationship with aftermarket companies can be found in the measuring session Scion hosted at Toyota’s North American headquarters in Torrance, Calif., where numerous... [Read More]
A few months ago, Scion announced that you could submit your name to be randomly selected as one of the first 86 people to buy the Scion Fr-S. The winners would be notified by Scion and would get special treatment from Scion Corp. The winners have been announced and were notified by email of their selection. Here is a peek at what the announcement letter looks like ... [Read More]
Watch out Mazda Miata, there’s about to be a new roadster in town.
In an interview, Scion FR-S/Toyota GT 86 lead engineer Tetsuya Tada has confirmed a convertible version of the new sports car is in the works. Tada told Germany’s Autobild that the car was designed from the outset to be a convertible.
The car will no doubt be nearly identical to the... [Read More]
From two brands, a single vehicle emerges: an affordable, basic, rear-wheel-drive Japanese sports car. Twenty years ago, this sort of vehicle was commonplace. Japanese carmakers had been giving us inexpensive, *reliable, rear-drive sports-car catnip since the 1970 Datsun 240Z. After effectively killing off their Italian and British... [Read More]
Blame it on economics or blame it on Scion’s one-trim-level marketing policy, but U.S. buyers won’t be seeing a stripped-down version of Scion’s FR-S sport coupe in the foreseeable future.
That contrasts with the Japanese launch of the Toyota GT-86 and the Subaru BRZ, both of which will come in decontented versions for the home market. Aimed at racers,... [Read More]
Drifting champ and Scion spokesdriver Ken Gushi narrowly missed a deer while shooting a spot for the Scion FR-S, and the helicopter camera crew caught the entire ordeal in glorious high-def.
Gushi and crew were filming at Mt. Diablo State Park in Northern California when the close encounter took place, and by close, we're not talking feet, we're talking inches. ... [Read More]
The long-awaited Toyota GT 86 / Scion FR-S seems ideally suited to motorsport events like drifting, autocross, time attack and club racing--particularly compared to anything else in the Toyota/Scion stable. It stands to reason that many cars will undergo the transition from street car to race car immediately after delivery, so why not offer track car builders the least... [Read More]
One of the most eye-grabbing cars at the 2012 Houston Auto Show is at the Scion display. It’s the compact 2013 FR-S rear-wheel-drive sports car. While the vehicle at the auto show is a concept, Scion says the car on display is about 85 percent true to the production model set to go on sale this spring. Pricing isn’t available, but the mid- to upper-$20,000s is the... [Read More]
You may have heard about the Toyota-Subaru collaboration that’s bearing fruit in the form of a slick, two-seater coupe. Subaru’s version is the BRZ, and Toyota’s is being released under their Scion brand as the FR-S.
It makes sense. Scion is targeted to a younger demographic,... [Read More]
It looks like TRD is planning a hefty list of performance parts for the Scion FR-S once it is released. Here is a snippet of what they might be making:
[Exterior]
- Front Spoiler
- Side Skirt
- Rear Under Spoiler
- Rear Trunk Spoiler
- 18 inch Aluminum Wheel 'SF2' (Forged)
- Oil Filler Cap
- Fuel Cap Cover
[Interior]
- Sports Seat
- Sports Meter Link System (Water Temp., Oil Temp., Oil Pressure)
- Push Start... [Read More]
The TRD 86, or the Scion FR-S, what ever you wanna call it, it’s a hot car. This year at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon, the GT 86 will debut with some extra style thanks to the added TRD aero kit.
The TRD kit adds a front lip with selected sections painted black as well as a side skirt down both sides of the car... [Read More]
Scion's FR-S sports car has a chance to be the next big hit in affordable performance with its promise of nimble handling combined with a driver-oriented cockpit and Jenny-Craig-like weight management. Like many sports cars, a big tachometer rather than a speedometer sits front and center in the FR-S' gauge cluster to monitor engine revs.
Has the continuos march of news about the Scion FR-S driven you to crave the lightweight RWD sports car like a smack addict seeking his next fix? Scion's offering you an opportunity to be one of the first 86 customers to take delivery. Here's how.
Scion just announced at the Detroit Auto Show they'd be allowing customers to sign up for a... [Read More]
It looks as if Scion may be hard at work on a new turbocharged FR-S prototype. Motor Trend nabbed a quick video of what appears to be a forced-induction version of the coupe darting around Laguna Seca. With its tall wing and sideways antics, the vehicle is likely being put through its paces by the Scion drift team, which has had to rely on specially modified TC models... [Read More]
I came across this article today where it showed some promotional materials for the Scion FR-S. According to the print, it lists the base MSRP for the Scion FRS at $23,249. Slightly above the Scion tC, the Scion FRS will provide RWD and a new 2.0L boxer engine platform to work off of.
Recently the Scion FR-S or Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ has been officially unveiled to the motoring public. Most of the stuff about the car on the web has been pretty pictures and cool videos of Ken Gushi sliding around in the rain. Now that the first close to production Scion FR-S’s have been officially rolled out and press embargos have been lifted we will give you a technical look at the car's underpinnings with some engineering commentary.
Subaru has already announced plans to unveil an STI version of their new BRZ sports car and Toyotahas confirmed plans for a supercharged version of the GT 86. But what about Scion? Until now, the company hasn’t said anything about a more powerful version for their FR-S. Of course, this doesn’t mean we won’t see one because if Scion doesn’t bring an updated FR-S, there are... [Read More]
During this week’s media drive of the 2013 Scion FR-S at Sodegaura Forest Raceway in Japan, FR-S project manager Yoshinori Sasaki mentioned that his team has big plans when it comes to delivering variants of the soon-to-be-released Toyota/Scion sports coupe.
“We are hoping to release one new variant per year,” Sasaki-san said. Should Toyota’s planning teams consider this viable,... [Read More]
By now you know plenty about the 2013 Scion FR-S. You know it uses a 2.0-liter normally aspirated flat-4 cranking out 200 horsepower. You know it's got a six-speed manual transmission and you know it weighs about 2,800 pounds.
What you don't know is that we spent a day last week driving the car on a track in Japan and talking shop with its... [Read More]
The United States sister of the Subaru BRZ, known as the Scion FR-S will go on sale in the United States marker in spring of 2012. This is obviously an unusual car when it comes to the parent company Toyota, ot at least the Toyota of late. Obviously, Toyota has been lacking passion lately with their vehicles, so they... [Read More]
It doesn't take long to realize the 2013 Scion FR-S is special -- just an aggressive 4-second wide-open throttle jab, a short three-two downshift, and a clockwise rotation of the FR-S' small 14.4-inch diameter helm.
It's at this point in my drive, as I'm heading into Sodegaura Forest Raceway's sharp, right-hand Turn 1, that the bright orange... [Read More]
Here is some info about Flat Four engine technology
A flat-4 or horizontally-opposed-4 is a flat engine with four cylinders arranged horizontally in two banks of two cylinders on each side of a central crankcase. The pistons are usually mounted on the crankshaft such that opposing pistons move back and forth in opposite directions at the same time, somewhat like a boxing competitor punching their gloves together before a fight, which has led to it being referred to as a boxer... [Read More]
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