FasTTurbo
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Cool man.I was referring to this forum, not others. And never posted or have an account on supraforums. I’m on Porsche, bmw, and Mercedes forums in the past.
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Cool man.I was referring to this forum, not others. And never posted or have an account on supraforums. I’m on Porsche, bmw, and Mercedes forums in the past.
they only used the FT1 design because of fan receptionDefinitely not. There are many more people bothered by it more then just me. I'm a Toyota supra fan to the core. I've always welcomed Toyota working hand in hand with other manufacturers like when they developed the last supra with Yamaha. I've been into these cars since 1992, I've owned many and was hopeful for a true successor to the mkiv. Toyota instead made a watered down version of a beautiful car labeled the ft1 and slapped some prepackaged frozen food isle BMW parts into a caricature of the ft1 design. Fake vents, fake scoops, intentionally left off parts for tuners to mod like sheep. Dunno, if you Haven't been a supra fan for a long time I dont see how you could be excited about this car. That's all. I didnt make fun of anyone here, i didnt call anyone names, i simply stated my opinion and i see this place is a true echo chamber for this car. A car i waited for a long time for and was let down hard by.
Again it's a cool car. It makes cool fart sounds and BMW pops on decel. Its decently quick and atleast has some cool curves. But let's not call it a supra...lets call it what the frs should have been.
Yes that's correct.they only used the FT1 design because of fan reception
Agreed sir. As with all things time with sort out the cars true pedigree, its just that on paper, the cars origin is pretty cut and dry and what toyotas small part was in it is clear. There really is no mystery to it. I'm just confused if the ideal buyer of this car is a bmw guy who wants something with out of the box styling or its that new age supra enthusiast that doesn't know or care much for the heritage.
I'm 34 as well and I think that we are the target demographic for this car. Another big thing is that even when you could purchase a Supra in the 20-30k range a lot of people just don't have that kind of cash laying around and very few banks will finance a car that old. I was lucky enough to find some good deals for my cars.I've wanted an mkiv since 2011 but couldn't afford one until now. Now the prices are out of control, and is a very old car that they are not producing parts for anymore.
Then the mkv launch date finally posted and here I am with a down payment on a mkv. So maybe I am this generation at age 34.
Took too long you say? They would have taken LONGER had they not gone with BMW. Of course it's going to look like a BMW, it's built from the BMW parts bin. Calling it as "jUsT a bMw" feels like a massive disservice to the work both BMW and Toyota did over its 7 years of development, methinks.I honestly don't blame Toyota for going to BMW to co-develop the car and I understand why they did it. What I am annoyed with is how long this car took to come to fruition and the blatant lack of Toyota in this car. They could have redesigned the interior completely, but chose to go with a BMW style look. This was Toyota's last chance to produce a true heir to the MKIV and show everyone what they are capable of producing, but we got this car instead.