First ever video of the Toyota FT-86 / Subaru 086a test mule in testing at the Nurburgring. Looks quite promising for a track car!

A quick look at a new car and new tracks for Gran Turismo 5, featuring the Toyota FT-86 Concept car.

Inspired by the AE86 Corolla GTS, the FT-86 Concept will debut at the Tokyo Auto Salon next month with plans that the production model will be within dealer showrooms by late 2011.

Growing up in Milwaukee, I was not a stranger to the name Jack Safro. In fact, my parents like many other Wisconsin residents within the last forty years have come to know Jack Safro as synonymous with Toyota. Jack Safro died of a heart attack earlier this year and a large portion of his personal estate was liquidated recently at the Mecum High Performance Auctions.

It was a sunny yet breezy Saturday morning in Long Beach, California and the only thing better than the weather were the cars that were dock side to the Queen Mary. Even more tantalizing was that over half of the vehicles were Japanese classics and nostalgic models.

A tribute video to Tsuchiya Keiichi, one of the few who has made the AE86 a legend. Complete with the funky Japanese-American Initial-D style music soundtrack.