A80 Toyota Supra

This move made me so happy especially since I play forza heavily!

Turbro said:

agreed, they need to bring Toyota to need for speed heat also... it was in the last nfs

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What was the excuse for that again? Wasn't it b/c they didn't won't to promote street racing.

DesmoSD said:

What was the excuse for that again? Wasn't it b/c they didn't won't to promote street racing.

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Yup! Which is so dumb because you can argue those games helping build their brand value.

That was just a comment by Toyota UK - it was a licencing issue regarding Polyphony digital IIRC

DesmoSD said:

What was the excuse for that again? Wasn't it b/c they didn't won't to promote street racing.

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the same reason Ferrari stayed out for so long

DesmoSD said:

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But that's funny, isn't the new Supra going to be in the next FnF? If so, is that not still along similar lines?

Artemis said:

But that's funny, isn't the new Supra going to be in the next FnF? If so, is that not still along similar lines?

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That's an oof right there

DesmoSD said:

What was the excuse for that again? Wasn't it b/c they didn't won't to promote street racing.

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That was just the public excuse because they continue to be heavily involved with the Japanese owned Gran Turismo. I'm glad they're back as well. We need the MR2s and all the Supras as well as the Le Mans racers back! And then the Lexus SuperGT cars.

DesmoSD said:

Stupid call to remove the MKIV Supra in the first place.

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It wasn't just the mk4, they removed ALL Toyota road cars from both new Forza games, and everything else that wasn't Gran Turismo. There was nearly 20 cars total with the Lexus and Scions included.

This article has the complete Toyota Tweets in it on the subject....

https://www.thedrive.com/news/29510...cense-cars-to-video-games-like-need-for-speed

They pretty much confirm what I suspected all along. To debut the mk5 in Gran Turismo Sport (the game featured it), someone at Sony or Polyphony some how convinced someone who wasn't paying attention at Toyota to grant them an exclusive license to Toyotas road cars for a set period. Bloody unbelievable, I'm still pissed at Toyota for going along with this.

On the Forza Live Streams they have said that the license is fully restored and they just need time to take the old FM6/FH3 models and add the latest changes from the last 2 games, so its just the mk4 first, and I'm guessing the rest will come in a free pack. I'm really hoping they decide to release it for FM7 too, only Horizon has been mentioned so far. Technically they've released their last DLC and update for FM7 already and are hard at work on 8 which will likely launch on the new XBox next year.

Thanks for the summary @SupraFiend . I play Forza7 more than the other games so I hope it comes to that although it's probably not going to.

SupraFiend said:

It wasn't just the mk4, they removed ALL Toyota road cars from both new Forza games, and everything else that wasn't Gran Turismo. There was nearly 20 cars total with the Lexus and Scions included.

This article has the complete Toyota Tweets in it on the subject....

https://www.thedrive.com/news/29510...cense-cars-to-video-games-like-need-for-speed

They pretty much confirm what I suspected all along. To debut the mk5 in Gran Turismo Sport (the game featured it), someone at Sony or Polyphony some how convinced someone who wasn't paying attention at Toyota to grant them an exclusive license to Toyotas road cars for a set period. Bloody unbelievable, I'm still pissed at Toyota for going along with this.

On the Forza Live Streams they have said that the license is fully restored and they just need time to take the old FM6/FH3 models and add the latest changes from the last 2 games, so its just the mk4 first, and I'm guessing the rest will come in a free pack. I'm really hoping they decide to release it for FM7 too, only Horizon has been mentioned so far. Technically they've released their last DLC and update for FM7 already and are hard at work on 8 which will likely launch on the new XBox next year.

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Yeah, it was a licensing issue. The street racing tweet was Toyota trolling the gaming community.

Good timing. I haven't played Forza in months because I got bored with it and was now considering buying NFS Heat. Now I won't have to do that for a while.

Less trolling and more some employee being asleep at the wheel I'm guessing.

Yeah I'm really looking forward to really getting into FH4 finally. I got it not too long ago but my heart just wasn't in it and I kept going back to the older games.

I actually bought an 08 Z4 MCoupe, turbo swapped it and gave it the preproduction Supra camo wrap so as to be able to drive something even slightly like a Supra lol...