2020 Supra... first thoughts

Spartan 1771

Its disappointing on a number of different levels.

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sunkist350z

Its not been even tested or reviewed all the hate lol

Spartan 1771

I never said I hated it. It's nice, but it's a BMW. It had a HUGE name to live up to and it falls short thus far.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions: good, bad or indifferent.

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Lvcky69

Hate is not the word here homeboy. People aren't hating, they are pissed at the fact that toyota screwed the legendary supra. This is a huge let down for a lot of people. Even to the supra owners. You think they'd sell their old supra to buy the new one? lmao. The steering wheel looks like the steering wheel of an suv! I don't really care, as I was never intended to own one anyways. I'm fine with the Z and the 911 4s

Spartan 1771

Imagine if the next Gen Z has an Acura engine and mirrors one of their cars. How would that be received by the car community, and more specifically by the individuals in this forum? Not well I presume. This is exactly what happened with the new Supra.

It just seems to me Toyota didn't take this very seriously. Why not build an all original body and use a high performance engine from Lexus? That would have made a lot more sense to me.

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ZCanadian

Agree - you'd think that the RC-F platform would be the perfect place to go to in order to find the drive train.

I get that this car is not going to be a mass market beast and that finding economies of scale is the only way it could be built. But looking in-house would surely be cheaper, offer the most control of the product and process, and be a nod to the ability of Toyota/Lexus engineering. As far as the actual manufacturing is concerned, modern flex lines should have allowed low volume production of the Supra at an existing Toyota facility, surely. And Lexus couldn't have made it any uglier! :-D Toyota already had the fairly well received FT-1 concept to work off of.

On another note, anyone see the new 2020 RC-F "Track Edition" also released at Detroit this week? For the price of about 2 new Supra's you could get from 0-60 in 0.2 seconds faster. Hmmmm.

UNKNOWN_370

Companies are part sharing due to cost of Sports car R&D. I'm sure if this version replace all? The next gen will be a more toyota focused vehicle.
One of the rumors for the next gen Z is that it may be powered by Mercedes?
The vr30dett came out but the next Z may have a 4 banger base model by Benz. This is what the globalized market is doing. Not saying I like that...
Remember that the Supras b4 the MK4 were designed by lotus. So maybe the next gen Supra will have a 3jz...

I try to think positive in the sense that. Everyone is abandoning sports cars or is scared to excel in the sports Arena, like Nissan. At least Toyota got some balls back. Cuz they were What Nissan is now just a few short tears ago.

I'm just waiting for a review n hopefully a test drive before I have a full on opinion. I know that BMW 8 speed is extremely fast n smooth. I'm just hoping toyota tuning will give the 3.0L engine more sports car grunt.

Like everyone else though. A 3JZ woulda been nuts. Here's hoping for a next gen 3jz.

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Zoren 370

Ugly period!!!

Look what they did with the new Tundra!!

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