Did you read the latest report about Toyota allegedly giving the green light to a four-door version of the Toyota GT-86 and consequently, the Scion FR-S? Well if you didn’t, you can read all about it from the source, which is a one Peter Lyons from Australia’s CarSales, as well as on a number of other sites that repeated the story such as Autoblog, Jalopnik, Motorauthority and Worldcarfans, just to mention a few.
These stories make for wonderful, eye-catching and viewer-engaging headlines, but one has to be cautious, and by that, I mean there are times when who’s talking is as important as what they’re saying. It all so happens that I made fun of an eerily similar story about a four-door coupe GT-86 back in 2010 (read our humorous post here – again I repeat, humorous, don’t take it seriously…like some did at the time), which according to the author, should have been in showrooms…today.
Can you guess who wrote the aforementioned story of a Toyota GT-86 sedan coming into the market in 2013 based on insider information? Yes, that’s right…
I’m not saying that Toyota has never considered expanding the range of its sports model that was co-developed with Subaru (it did present a convertible concept) or that it won’t go down that road in the future, but when these purportedly “anonymous inside sources” fail to deliver, readers should treat / approach these stories with a few grains of salt and certainly some common sense.
By John Halas
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