Toyota Motor Corp. introduced its new 86 coupe Saturday, betting that the 200-horsepower sports car will widen the automaker's appeal beyond its best- selling Camry sedan and Prius hybrid.
The rear-wheel-drive 86 will be available in spring in the northern hemisphere next year, it said. Pricing details will be released closer to the sale date.
Toyota, poised to return the title of world's largest automaker to General Motors Co., is renewing a push for sports cars under Akio Toyoda, who became president in June 2009. The carmaker is hoping the new model will burnish an image that's been battered by recalls and a production prowess that was interrupted by the nation's record earthquake and flooding in Thailand.