Abflug Adds Some Drama to Toyota 86 / Scion FR-S with New Supercharger Package

Here's one more tuning proposal for the Toyota 86 sports coupe, which is also known as the GT86 in Europe and Australia, and as the Scion FR-S in North America, that comes to us from the Land of the Rising Sun and Abflug.

The Japanese tuner's Spiral 86 performance and styling package will be formally introduced to the public at the 2013 Tokyo Auto Salon in mid-January, with sales to follow shortly thereafter.

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Make Your Car go…'Psssshhht' with HKS Approved iBoost App

At first, we had the XLR8 app that uses the accelerometers of Apple and Android devices to match the sounds of exotic Italian supercars, muscle cars or racing models to your vehicle's acceleration and braking forces.

In much the same way, a newly announced app from Bonobo reproduces the ‘psssshhhht’ sounds of a turbocharger, and mind you, not any turbochargers but the ones from Japanese tuning firm HKS.

The app is fittingly called iBoost and it was developed in partnership with HKS.

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HKS Dyno-Tests Toyota 86 Drift Racer, Prepares New Tuning Lineup that Includes a Supercharger

Famed aftermarket and motorsport specialist HKS has released a new video of the Toyota 86 race car it is working on to participate in the 2012 season of Japan's D1 Grand Prix production car drifting competition. The new clip shows the 86 being tested on the dyno.

As well as the motorsports version of the 86, which you should know by now is a sister model to the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ rear-wheel drive coupes, the Japanese company is also preparing a raft of tuning parts for the production model.

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