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Even if it gets a Toyota engine it will be built by an Austrian company from what we have read. It's a bit of a slippery slope. On one hand the Supra's engine is what has and will define the car but at what point does it stop being a Toyota-built sports car when the rest of it is being outsourced.

I hear you but the reality is all sports cars are going this way and the low volume ones will continue to be more and more bastardized. You have companies like GM and Ford co developing transmissions and pretty soon the only way to make any money from them will be to build a sports car together...

There are actually people who dont want a Supra remake? Wtf? Do they not like cars?

Wasn't NY the first US auto show debut of the FT-1 ? Man I hope they have something new soon.

Clever. I know they do amazing things to conceal the true shape using foam and padding but the screwing actual panels to the car and using the swirly black and white camo to make it seem like that's the true shape is really going out of their way. I still have faith just based on the FT1 that...

The Z5 prototype looks big and bland btw. They better be hiding a lot more impressive bodywork under that camouflage.

Despite its dimensions it really doesn't look that much bigger because the design is so tight and overhangs so short. But it does look like it's from another millennium, which I guess is technically true :)

It just shows it only takes a few changes to turn a beautiful design into a downright cheap looking one. :thumbsdown: Let's hope Toyota does a better job tweaking their own concept!

All supras were always built in Japan right? Is that going to change due to this jointly developed platform?

Those are amazing specs even today. Must have blown people away in 2006. Give the new supra 500hp and 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and it will blow people away.

He was just an announcer guy who memorized a script but still he did start off asking who here remembers the legendary Supra and how Toyota wanted to bring that excitement back.

They won't name it FT-1 anyway. The "FT" is reserved only for concepts. And 2000GT is a classic name but too old for lots of people to even know. Supra name is already a legend and makes perfect sense to use.

Even better in the blue they showed at the show.

Not my pic but I basically had the same expression as that bearded guy :drool:

SO I completely gushed about seeing the FT-1 at the LA show in the other thread but almost as impressive to me was the C7 Corvette Z06 convertible. I always looked at Corvettes as a favorite among the tupee wearing old retired white guy kinda car but this is the first generation Corvette I...