A new report finds Toyota's Scion division will introduce a four-door sedan based on the acclaimed rear-wheel drive FR-S sports car in 2016.
Called 734A internally, the yet-unnamed sedan will stretch 187 inches long, 70 inches wide and 55 inches tall, dimensions that will make it roughly the same size all around as a Subaru Legacy. The sedan will likely feature frameless doors and a specific rear end treatment, but the coupe's front end will be grafted to the sedan with only minor modifications.
The Subaru BRZ-based Cross Sport Design Conceptthat bowed in Tokyo last month hints at what the upcoming Scion sedan could look like.
"It'd be easy to bring the B-pillar forward, add a rear door and slant the rear roof section to create a viable sedan look," revealed an anonymous inside source at Toyota.
The coupe's 200-horsepower, 2.0-liter flat-four is not powerful enough to briskly move the extra weight added by sedan body style so engineers will fit the car with a turbocharger in order to raise its output to around 250 horsepower. The upgraded mill will also find its way under the hood of the coupe.
If the public's response to the turbocharged sedan is positive, Toyota will launch a range-topping all-wheel drive version of it equipped with a gasoline-electric hybrid drivetrain consisting of the aforementioned turbo four powering the rear wheels and electric motors connected to lithium-ion battery packs driving the front wheels.
The setup is still in the early stages of development, and engineers are reportedly gunning for a total output of 300 horsepower. If turbo gets off to a bad start on the market, the all-wheel drive drivetrain will be fitted to a Lexus instead.
If the rumorproves true, the FR-S sedan will bow as a thinly-veiled concept in a major auto show in 2015 and land in showrooms as a regular-production model about a year later. The FR-S coupe and its Subaru-badged twin are scheduled to get a mid-cycle facelift at about the same time.
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