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Can't understand why they are squeezing so much power from a 2.0L. I mean fair enough tuning a car AFTER its already been designed/released but if you doing it from the ground up why not just start with a bigger lump in the first place. Whats the advantage of it? I don't see them selling many as it will be pricey, even a half decent specced GTI is over 30K... 30K for a golf? I have a Mk4 Golf atm, genuinely great car no doubt about it, however its incredibly boring. I nearly bought a Scirocco before considering a GT86, to be fair it was nice but again just found it a bit boring, my girlfriends 3 cylinder Up! is more fun to drive.

Blimey they do that close don't they?

Great photos! Was a good day, although my sunburnt forehead would suggest otherwise. You will have the addition of a red one next year

That first video is deceiving as the microphone isn't actually inside the car. If it was I'm sure it would make your ears bleed! I'm pretty somebody across the pond measured it at around 90dB, but that basically means nothing to me as they didn't state how, what RPM or where they measured that figure. If you open up their PDF catalog its in there, although no proper picture, a quick search through FT86 Club will have pics.

I’ve been looking at the available exhaust systems for this car and after spending literally hours listening to various combinations I’ve dwindled it down to the Corsa performance cat back from the US. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem that easily obtainable in the UK, there are no UK dealers and when you punch it google I’m only getting results for Corsa of the Vauxhall variety (unsurprisingly). Has anybody here heard/got/able to get hold of the cat back exhaust from Corsaperformance? If so what is it like? I want a system that sounds fruity but doesn't drone or sound like a fart cannon on the motorway as I will be clocking quite a few miles. For those who don’t know they are a Canadian company who seem to have a very good reputation with V8 owners for making quality exhaust systems with no ‘drone’. Info: http://www.corsaperformance.com/ Noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUrebZevNA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rv0k6pJEvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFMJzOSkdBo Thanks, Matt

Thank you all for the warm welcome, I'm sure I will meet a few more of you in the future. No worries about being tired, I would of been the same, I saw a couple of 3000GT owners having a kip in their cars. Obligatory pictures will be posted when it arrives, although I'm pretty sure you all know what a Red GT86 looks like lol. I'm already concocting a list of mods so expect some questions soon enough!