01-18-2019, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by 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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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.
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