pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag"Coupes/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/japan/" rel="tag"Japan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/subaru/" rel="tag"Subaru/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.7tune.com/toyotasubaru-compact-sports-car-code-086a/"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/086a_toyota_subaru_580op.jpg" alt="" //abr /br /Over the past few months, rumors have circulated that the joint venture between Toyota and Subaru to develop an affordable, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive coupe has been delayed. ToMoCo president, Akio Toyoda, sought to address those concerns at last month's a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/TokyoAutoSalon/"Tokyo Auto Salon/a, and according to Toyota's new overlord, development is still underway.br /br /Toyoda told the assembled masses that the new FR sports car is an essential part of the automaker's "rejuvenation" efforts to bring younger people into the fold, and a large part of that is price. The coupe is still expected to cost around 2,000,000 yen (a little over $21,000 US) and is set to go on sale in 2012. According to Toyoda, the production postponement has nothing to do with the delay in construction of the Toyota/Subaru factory, where the two-door was due to be built next year. Instead, Toyoda claims that the hold up is due to the adaption of Toyota's new a href="http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/tech/environment/powertrain/engine/index.html"D-4S direct injection system/a for the flat-four engine. Currently, the FR sports car is codenamed "086A," and for those of you schooled in the world of Hachirokus, that spells good things to come.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.7tune.com/toyotasubaru-compact-sports-car-code-086a/"7Tune/a | Image: Holiday Auto (colored by AB)]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/18/toyota-subaru-fr-sports-car-code-named-086a-will-include-direct/"Toyota/Subaru FR sports car code-named 086A, will include direct injection/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:27:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.7tune.com/toyotasubaru-compact-sports-car-code-086a/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/18/toyota-subaru-fr-sports-car-code-named-086a-will-include-direct/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1464474/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/18/toyota-subaru-fr-sports-car-code-named-086a-will-include-direct/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/RwwfsrmXhh0alKc3wGfOG79eNEI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/RwwfsrmXhh0alKc3wGfOG79eNEI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=b54p7tp2"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=b54p7tp2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=evasEVct"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=evasEVct" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/rl5mYk7-SPU" height="1" width="1"/

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