Toyota Motorsport GmbH has been working on a rally kit for the GT86 (that's the Scion FR-S for us North Americans) for a good long while. For customers, the wait for the so-called CS-R3 has probably been both gratifying—TMG wants to get the car dialed in, after all—and frustrating. It's hard cooling your heels for months while waiting to buy the €79,000 kit when you already know what the finished product will entail.
Of course, it looks fantastic. The GT86 and its FR-S and Subaru BRZ siblings are wonderful road-course cars, but a rally version could propel them into the realm of legend, and it recalls the rear-drive Toyota Celicas of the early 1980s that dominated rallies before AWD became the norm. Rear-drive rally cars might not be competitive at the highest tiers of of the sport, but they're fun to watch and cheap to run.
What does the kit entail? Costing $89,700 or so at today's exchange rate—that's a $5700 discount over full retail!—you can expect to receive a body shell, an engine, a six-speed sequential transmission, a limited-slip differential, subframes, a full suspension, a steering system, cockpit instrumentation, wiring, and a cage. It's perhaps also useful to know what it doesn't include: seats, safety harnesses, fire suppression, battery, tools, rally computer, wheels, tires, or mud flaps—although these are all things teams probably want to customize to their particular builds.
This near-turnkey race car is eligible for FIA R3 competition, and it will give owners the satisfaction of wheeling a proper rear-drive coupe in a class mainly intended for front-wheel drive cars. TMG expects to start delivering customer cars in May of this year.
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A version of this story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com.
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