As if we weren’t already excited enough over the Toyota FT-86, this truly awesome AE86 Trueno-inspired model appeared as the G Sports Turbo Concept at the Tokyo Auto Salon.

Most details of this car are vague other than mentioning it has a horizontally-opposed 2.0-litre turbo engine (Impreza Sourced Perhaps ?) with rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual. The white paint job and the carbon fibre black bonnet clearly hint at the AE86, though the name seems more like the GT-S. One does wonder with the Impreza Engine’s previous hand grenade temperament for taking abuse, is this a wise choice for the ‘drifter’ generation.

The Full Concept is to be release at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show

Clash Productions have released another teaser video from their Titan Production

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French Director Stephane Benini ha spent the best part of a year cataloguing his vision of what the ‘Ring means, and how to transfer that motor sport noise , feel and addiction that draw people to the Green Hell in their thousands every year. It also tries to capture the track itself in it’s rawness and what it does to man and machine. This movie covers new machines, vintage machines (check out the Gulf GT40 and the John Player F1 Car), and also two wheeled merchants at the ‘ring.

I’m looking forward to the full version, check out the sound off the Aston Martin DB9R

For those that aren’t all that familiar with the Irish Rally Scene , Kevin Lynch (KPL Contracts) is a rally driver who has a couple of WRC cars, his son Sean set up a production company and has created this video of his aul lad in action, so on an August day in 2009 the Nutts Corner area was covered in tyre scree and filled with the sounds of Rally Cars doing what they do best.

After last week’s official announcement from Toyota prior to the Tokyo Motor Show, further pictures have now been posted on the enthusiast forum ft86club.com.

Showing the FT-86 Concept being photographed in the studio we get a much better impression of the design and detailing of Toyota’s forthcoming sportscar.

Dean ‘Karnage’ Kearney made the trip to the final round of Formula D in the USA, and was unlucky with some mechnical issues which put a stop to him qualifying .. Ross Fairfield (deadpirate on the forum) knocked up this video of his adventures ..

I’ve seen a few of the D1 GP drivers at this sort of stuff before, Hibino in the UK at Silverstone, but I’ve never seen balls like this…

Former World Rally Championship driver Pentti Airikkala died yesterday after a long illness.

The Finn, 64, was a frequent top-line competitor in the 1970s and 1980s, and tackled a total of 36 WRC events, mostly driving rear-wheel drive Vauxhall/Opel cars like the Chevette HS and Magnum Coupe.

A former Finnish and Scandinavian rally champion, longtime UK resident Airikkala also won the British title in 1979.

He is probably best remembered though, when he drove a Vauxhall Chevette HS for the DTV team in the late ’70s. In winning the 1979 Circuit of Ireland Rally (the year he won the British championship), Airikkala became the first and only ‘foreign’ driver to do so and later regarded this win as the finest of his long distinguished career.

“The Circuit of Ireland is a very special rally – very long, very hard, very competitive. I am proud to be the first European to win,” Pentti said at the time.

It was a busy weekend for motorsport championships all round with a number of championships being decided. In a great weekend for Irish motorsport, two Irish pairings won major rally championships in Britain and Italy and a Meath driver is the favourite to take an American racing title. Keith Cronin from Bantry and his Limerick co-driver Greg Shinnors scored their third International win of the year, to clinch the British Rally Championship, the first Irish crew to take the title since the legendary Billy Coleman, 35 years ago.

The 23 year old West Cork driver, the 2007 winner of the Billy Coleman Award for Young Rally Driver of the Year, won three of the six rounds in his Cremins Coaches Mitsubishi Evo 9 and finished second in two more behind three times champion Mark Higgins.