THE DRIVING force behind Toyota’s aggressive Salon stable is Akio Toyoda, the company’s new petrolhead CEO.
He’s kick-started a campaign to build “more interesting cars” (Aussie translation: “a lot of our cars are automotive Valium. I’m going to sort that right out”).Cue the FT-86 G Sports Concept, the latest and hardest version of the new rear-drive coupe, best known as the ‘Toyobaru’ (because Toyota and Subaru are cooking it up together, based on the Impreza platform and powered by Subie’s flat-four engine).In the metal, this coupe looks taut and tough: sharp flanks, chiselled, shark-like nose, matt-black bonnet and sexy new wheels.Okay, so the spoiler is straight out of Japan’s D1 Drift series, but that’s pretty much the point here.On the grunt front, the Toyobaru’s 2.0-litre Subaru Boxer four has gained a turbo, for outputs of approximately 200kW/340Nm and guaranteed sideways shenanigans…