Watch out Mazda, here comes some serious competition…
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/toyota/gt-86/62596/toyota-gt-86-convertible
With a starting price of £26,000 that’s £10,000 more than the Mazda… no thanks 
I really like the ethos of this car. GT86/BRZ are gonna be great secondhand buys in 5 years.
Thats the car I have been waiting for, I was going to buy the BRZ but will now wait for the convertible.
It maybe more than the MX but the after sales and (lack of) care package of Mazda really does not inspiire a purchase of a new Mazda any more.
Finally in the flesh…
Saving already! Will be sorry to move away from an new MX5, but the ND would have to be real special and real quick to appear to persuade me otherwise…
Ah, the new Celica convertible. Its a cabrio, not a roadster. The 350Z cabrio wasn’t all that good, once the roof had been chopped off, and 300kg of deadweight added to keep thing from shaking apart.
This car is just a design study for a show; it doesn’t even have a roof fitted.
According to my Toyota Dealer, Toyota offers a longer warranty on the GT86 than Subaru do on the BRZ - strange as the both come out of the Subaru factory !
I would not be so quick to jump at the GT86 / BRZ convertible, no car that was designed with a roof then turned into a convertible has been great. I drove a Celica convertible and you always wondered if the back was really connected to the front.
The GT86/BRZ was always designed to become a convertible - so it should be good.
If only the price was right, would order one today (the coupe that is).
The mx5 mk4 might well be more keenly priced but the thought of turbo lag puts me off. Like to see it in the flesh though.
wise words. we have had 2 cars that were this. the 206 hardtop was like driving sitting in a pot of jelly. the honda civic crx mk2 del sol (mine 
) was better, but you could still feel the scuttle shake with the top off.
the '5 is so much better for this. on my mk3 i can hardly detect any shake.
that would be my perfect car by the way, a '5 with that 1.6 dohc vtec motor. oh the noise! (no, i didnt have a megaphone fitted to the back, this was completely standard)
Having driven the Toyota at Spa last year, I was very, very impressed with it, apart from the brakes being cooked, which was understandable. I can’t imagine cutting the roof off will do it any favors though.
Looks like an uptodate MGB GT, there was more room in my +2 Elan
You never went in the back of a MGB GT then? None of these cars are ever going to have room in the back. Rear seats are only a way of justifying it to a partner when you have kids.
If you need a sports saloon get an RX-8.
No, but my son did up to the age of about 8
2+2 cars are really 2+1, but the rear seat is good for stashing coats etc - and most importantly it lets you adjust the drivers seat fully. In the MX5 I cannot put the seat back far enough to adopt my ideal seating position (being tall).
I think i might be getting older, or just have taste?
But the white drop head does not doe it for me, AT is right ,it is just a newer version of the celica,and i liked the celica, we had some, and personally i think it is just heading like the rest out there, copying the look of the Audi’s, the drawing looked great ,but the real life lines look crap, maybe its just the angle of the pic?
Does not get my man area moving…Next.
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Bah. I used to fit in the back of Dads S800 when I was a kid and they dont even have rear seats. Kids nowadays have no sense of adventure.
Don’t want a 4 seater–have to find another excuse for not taking the grandkids out!!