Stop asking for a turbo Toyobaru

Turbocharging the Toyota 86 would require a great deal of work, making it incredibly unlikely to happen in the current generation.

Speaking to CarAdvice in Geneva, Tetsuya Tada, chief engineer for the 86 and Supra, explained why the current 86 won't see a forced-induction powertrain.

“When we launched 86, I got literally millions of questions from around the world of 'when would you be launching the turbo version?'” Tada said.

“I believe that often times I answered that there won’t be a turbo version, and there were some articles in the media that Mr Tada doesn’t like a turbo.

"That’s not really true. I do like turbos, however if we come up with a turbo version of the 86 and boost up the power that would result in the necessity of changing the basic configuration completely, to come up with a car that I would be satisfied with.”