Road test: Subaru BRZ

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What is it?

Depending upon your outlook, the Subaru BRZ is a re-badged Toyota GT86, or the GT86 is a re-badged BRZ. But whichever way you look at it, the fact remains that the BRZ and GT86 twins are more Subaru than Toyota. The former is in charge of producing, testing and fine-tuning the jointly developed, two-door, rear-wheel-drive sports car after all – and it uses a Subaru boxer engine. But it remains a rare sight on UK roads with the Toyota version basking in the fine words the media has lavished on the back-to-basics sports car, and consequently it has sold more healthily than the Subaru version – the ratio is about 10:1 in the GT86's favour. Apart from a few visual differences on the inside and outside, they are set up slightly differently but you'd be very hard-pressed to notice.