The Toyota Supra Owner's Club Event featuring Tetsuya Tada & the A90 (photos/videos)

[MA617M]

HKS was dropping hints the other day btw.

can't find anything on their Jp/USA websites, Facebook or Twitter. But my Japanese isn't what it used to be, and maybe I didn't look hard enough....

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[vb22]

The Q&A was so hard to hear with the music in the background, but it sounds like Tada said work on the Supra started before the FT1, but people loved it so much that they worked with Calty to incorporate some of the styling cues onto the Supra.

I'm not going to search through all his post, but I do recall A70 saying something like this... we should stop comparing it to the FT1 because the two are technically unrelated, or something a long those lines.

 

[johnny_10196]

So in the other words if it wasn't for the awesome design team at Calty we would have gotten 1. a totally different design or 2. a rebadge hardtop Z4 with only mirror styling tweaks.

 

[A70TTR]

Calty probably would have still penned the design IMO, but it just so happened that they were doing a simultaneous "design study."

Thing is, the manager that approved that exercise likely knew the Supra was in development or at least had a hunch, so while unrelated on the one hand it still showed something that resonated well with the public that they could use to apply to the Supras aesthetic.

 

[2JZ-No-Sh*t]

I wish Toyota had made this joint car with BMW look more like that old FT-HS concept. Then save the FT1's design for a reskin LC flagship. They probably wouldn't have sold many at six figures, but the FT1 was beautiful. Lastly have the SF-R as a 86 replacement. And we have the three brothers that Akio wanted.

Besides, they both kind of already have a similar proportion.

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[Spilner]

@A70TTR

yes, what about sf-r? i want one of those more than Supra

give us the deets

Last i heard, it went the way of the new S2000

 

[Modal170]

@A70TTR

yes, what about sf-r? i want one of those more than Supra

give us the deets

Last i heard, it went the way of the new S2000

More or less this

They were VERY close to making it happen, I think 85-90 percent there, but it never went to production. Had the design and materials ready I believe but I guess they couldn't justify the cost and development.

A shame too. If it ended up being a 15k Miata-esque vehicle in the USA with reasonable torque and low weight, I see that thing being an absolute best seller for the teens looking for a first car and potential to mod to respectable power within a reasonable amount.

Guess we'll wait to see what the third brother will be.

 

[A70TTR]

Yeah, it's toast sadly.

They ended up doing the GR Vitz/Aqua (Prius) instead...

 

[vb22]

I'm surprised no one has made a FT1 bodykit for the LC.

 

[Spilner]

Yeah, it's toast sadly.

They ended up doing the GR Vitz/Aqua (Prius) instead...

The GR Vitz front end should be used as an alternative for the MKV

 

[Spilner]

The GR Vitz front end should be used as an alternative for the MKV

End result would look like this

 

[mrarm]

it's gonna be a successful car, just for different reasons than what the A80 guys demand this car should have been lol

HKS was dropping hints the other day btw.

There are not only HKS!
Big boost produce already some turbo kit for B58 and arsenal motorsports Built BMW B58 Engine at 750Hp.

 

[Matador]

Yeah, it's toast sadly.

They ended up doing the GR Vitz/Aqua (Prius) instead...

You have got to be f'king kidding me.... like for real for real?

 

[Modal170]

There are not only HKS!
Big boost produce already some turbo kit for B58 and arsenal motorsports Built BMW B58 Engine at 750Hp.

Hope you know it ain't a B58 in this car

You have got to be f'king kidding me.... like for real for real?

My post summed it up as I asked earlier in the year

 

[supraboi]

End result would look like this

Not bad , you actually made a decent one for once.

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