NEW Toyota 86GT

[Niall]

It's not no.

But it has less power than a VW Golf GTI.

MX5 gets away with it, it has history, motorsports background and - the roof comes off.

It's supposed to be 'engaging' and fun to drive, but when you read the Evo article the car is in fact less involving to drive than a FWD hot-hatch. That's not good, to the point where the car has pretty much failed to deliver on the one simple promise.

It's not going to be easy to turbocharge on the cheap, since it has very high compression and the engine packaging is tight, to say the least. There's already a company which has come up with a remote turbo setup, with the turbocharger underneath the car near the rear differential...

But your purely basing this on a magazine road test. It's only an opinion. For all you know you could drive one and find it epic to drive. A lot of people say the golf was THE GTi but personally from going in them, I think there boring.
You want this car to be something it's not. Accept the fact that modern cars are a lot more difficult to make as fun as cars of the 90s due to emmisions ect.