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Here is the list of paint color codes and color names for the 2012-2021 Toyota 86/Scion FR-S & Subaru BRZ as well as the paint codes for the 2022+ GR86 & BRZ.

Toyota 86/Scion FR-S (2012-2021)

Hey everyone! Golden week is almost here!

Most of you never heard of Golden Week, but it’s a National Holiday in Japan.

For Japanese people, it’s the equivalent of “Spring Break”.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused, all customers with orders affected by Golden Week will be contacted by email.

You can find more information about this holiday by following this link.

When is Golden Week?

Golden Week takes place from April 27th to May 6th this year.

What usually happens during Golden Week?

The whole country of Japan kind of “shuts down”. Most factories are closed and people take time to visit their family, do sightseeing or travel. This year, it'll just be time to relax at home.

Why do we talk about Golden Week?

As you may know already, 99% of our parts ship straight from Japan.

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, some countries have put limitations on the most awesome shipping service in the world : Japan Post EMS (this also affects Japan Post Air Mail & ePacket).  We have used Japan Post EMS for the past 15+ years with success, pre-pandemic being a reliable 3-5 days shipping method. During and after pandemic, it’s safe to say the quality of service suffered and prices went up, but it was and is still the most cost effective way to ship “normal size” aerodynamic piece (big in volume, light in weight).

Most countries have a limit of around 150cm (longest size), which allows us to send most small aerodynamics pieces at a fraction of the cost of DHL or UPS.

Since 2023, some countries have restricted Japan Post dimensions to 105cm which means the prices shown on the website may be inaccurate for the following countries :

Even though we're an online store, we also take some holidays!

The customer service & sales will still be on limited operation throughout the holidays, however, the shipping department will be shut down from 28^th of December to 3^rd of January. Every order placed during period of 23rd of December to 3rd of January may be delayed by up to an extra ~5 business days as most shops we deal with will be closed. On January 4^th, when shops resume business, if your order has a longer production lead time than 5-10 business days, we will inform you and re-confirm order. Otherwise, we will ship within a time frame of 5-10 business days (from 4^th of January) as usual.

Very sorry about that, hope it'll be alright for most of you!

In the meantime, take it easy, it's been a tough year!

Dear FT86 lovers, On April 1st 2020, Japan Post announced that they temporarily suspend shipping to countries heavily affected by Coronavirus (COVID-19).

We always took great care of our customers and this is really challenging times. We always aimed at providing the best possible service and we’re working every hours of the day to solve this problem one way or another.

***THIS DOES NOT AFFECT ORDERS SHIPPED VIA UPS (OVERSIZED)***

All of our oversized products such as aerodynamics and our heavier products such as wheels & coilovers can still be shipped worldwide! If you combine oversized & regular product, we can ship worldwide!

***UPDATED NOVEMBER 5TH 2022***

What are we doing to solve this problem ?

We are now shipping to all countries with the COVID-19 restriction

It's long due, but here's the blog post about our coverage of pretty much all Toyota 86 & Subaru BRZ from Tokyo Auto Salon 2019 (TAS2019).

There are A LOT of photos so... enjoy!

86 Future Sport (Sano Design)

This 86 is out-Supra-ing the Supra itself! It’s rocking some 18x9.5 Rays TE-037 and has a 3S-GTE engine under the hood! It’s got a very sleek wide body kit and shows how wild aerodynamics can get!

This is our first post about the coverage we did on the FT86s at Tokyo Auto Salon 2017. This first part is focused on the second generation 86 (2016/2017 facelift/Kouki). The next posts will be about the first generation, but I’m sure you’ll also enjoy seeing the progress on the newly designed car.

Here are the tuners that made some awesome modifications on their Kouki’s:

Blitz

Blitz came up with a pretty cool adaptation of their existing widebody to make it fit the facelifted 86. The front bumper is insanely aggressive and so is the fenfer flares. They also decided to add a carbon fiber front splitter on top of that. It looks pretty nice with the stock rear spoiler, too. It’s also rocking the Enkei RS05RR Wheels.

During my first trip to Japan, after visiting D.Speed (blog post on this coming soon), the owner of the aforementioned shop informed me that on my way back, there was a shop I should visit if I like the new Toyota 86. I had never heard of Auto Factory, but decided to give it a go!

Auto Factory is basically a racing team who has close ties with Power Craft and Pro Composite (they also share many products). They are different companies, but I believe that R&D is a joint business. I arrived at the shop at around 9:00 PM, so please excuse the not-so-good quality

On a sunny day, I was driving back from Tokyo and saw a cool little K-Car parked on the side of the street. Back then (this is in 2014), it had the new Work CR-01 Wheels and I had to take a look at it!

Then, I saw a weird CIVIC (yeah it's a Civic) that had cool wheels on it:

And then I looked up and saw the WELD sign: