months after buying it. Were my
expectations too high, or are reviews
too subjective?
Cyril Haegeli
TuningJapanese
I’ve been following the reports on
your Blue Edition Toyota GT86 in Fast
Fleet. I hearyour criticism over the
Primacy HP tyre and I agree that it
lacks progressiveness and, whilst
great fun at times, is rather less so
when the temperature is low and the
roads are greasy. I just worry that
every road test misjudges the car due
to those tyres.
For anyone new to, or considering,
the GT86, may I suggest a switch
to the Michelin Pilot Sport 4? It will
transform the car and it’s what pretty
much every owner does as their
first ‘modification’. I think it would
transform your view of the car.
On the subject of modifications,
whilst I don’t expectevoto be
throwing coilovers, exhaust manifolds
and remaps at a manufacturer-
supplied car, many owners go down
this route as it really improves the
GT86 in terms of driving thrills. This is
perhaps more typical of what many
GT86s are like.
My car has 130,000 miles on the
clock, and is well modified as I use
it for sprinting, with some success.
However, whilst I’ve gone down the
route of modifying it, it’s still my
everyday car and it can still do all the
daily things well enough. But punt it
down a favourite B-road and it’s a big
step up from even the Blue Edition.
Lauren Blighton, GT86
Drivers Club Director
Poles apart
As a Volvo owner, I read Adam Towler's
report of your new Fast Fleet V60 T5
R-Design with great interest (evo263).
Adam describes just how deep you
reached into the sweetie tin with
options. However, it appears that
you neglected to get the ‘Polestar
Engineered Optimisation’ upgrade.
I’m now on my second, not-so-evo
S90 (D5 AWD PowerPulse), the latest
having the Polestar update, and I’d
strongly recommend you try it out (it
can be installed at a Volvo dealer) as
I’d love to hearyour thoughts on the
changes it brings.
Maybe the headline power and
torque figures aren’t so different, but
the delivery changes dramatically.
It even improves the gearbox
enthusiasm, or lack of!
Richard Grant-Pearce
You’ll be pleased to hear that we’ll be
getting the Polestar upgrade fitted
soon, Richard, but we wanted to try
the car without it first so that we could
report back on the difference. – AT
Yellowfever
As a self-confessed connoisseur of
yellow cars, issue 263 was a delight.
I’ve frequently wondered what my
Golf R estate would look like in Renault
Liquid Yellow or what my Subaru
GB270 wagon would have looked like
in Porsche Racing Yellow. And I dream
aboutowning an S2 Exige painted in
Norfolk Mustard.
For too long, car manufacturers
have been offering white, black and
grey or different shades of silver. How
fantastic to see the Supra looking
resplendent in yellow in the photos
taken in Spanish sunshine. I also defy
anyone to look at the yellow 488 Pista
Spider and not gawp in astonishment.
Bravo manufacturers for allowing
people to choose their preferred paint
colour, and not simply a shade of
undercoat.
Dr Hugh Powell, Holt, Norfolk
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