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I think we can be sure the engine block is closed deck.

Guys on ClubLexus, Lexus Enthusiast and FT86Club did a great job for the community with regards to TMC. Don't know how the other TMC related forums are doing (thinking about BOF truck forums), but I am certain there is as much enthusiasm.

A 2JZ vs a 3JZ labeled BMW B58?

BMW is to use new 48V I6 based system (as Mercedes) on next 3 Series. Supra being a BMW, could also get that.

Skin: different body panels and lights except doors, mirrors, glass and roof Under the skin: different engine and transmissions, settings and calibration Interior: the same everything except upper dashboard mold and door panels, same layout but different design instrument cluster, Mazda key for Fiat

If you mean as an icon/legend, then no. New ICEs do not have any time left to become icons. ICEs are over, from an enthusiast perspective. With the general loss of interest in emotional cars (mostly sports cars but also 4x4), the ICE is dead. The only thing that counts yet, is badge status and...

You can 'just' swap the BMW manual.

Yes there has. Every Mercedes 43 AMG that gets replaced by 53 AMG, is going from V6 to I6, which is more complicated than going from a longer I6 to a shorter V6, that is as wide if not less than a V8, for which the engine bay has also been engineered. And we know the new Supra can have a the...

Anyway, as I said, BMW had a NA version of the N54 in the 7 Series in some countries. Lexus still has a NA V6 in the new LS in some countries. A NA B58 is not impossible, even thought unlikely and surprising.

See how many say M2/M4 are best because I6, because RWD, because Turbo, because 'light', because fast DCT, because looks, because cool, because BMW? Supra is exactly that, but even lighter and even better. This car cannot fail. If the Supra fails, sportscars will have failed for ever.

BMW is the winner with fake vents, don't expect to have save the Supra from fake vents. It is unfortunate that Toyota made the FT-1 with real vents, when they clearly knew the production car would not be built that way.

You mean like Honda S2000 and Porsche 718 Cayman S?

NA I6? That is not possible. BMW replaced all NA I6 by FI I4.

How is power delivery of boxer engines compared to other engines? Isn't power delivery engine specific rather than layout specific? You do not like Porsche Flat6 power delivery?

You are saying nonsense now. Of course it is only my opinion, but the new NSX is the best looking mid-rear engine supercar ever made. The new Tesla Roadster might be even better, but it is not really mid-engine being electric. The NSX 'failure' point, only partly Honda's fault, it the badge...

A turbocharged 90° V4 would be the best engine for such a type of car. If only...

The Supra would get AMG's transaxle. Also AMG's very short I6 with ISG. And better quality and fit-and-finish.

I am not a fan of rev matching manual. In that case buy an auto/dct, it also rev matches instead of you. I am also not a fan of hill start assist. Does not work for every situation.

DCT also overrides if rpm too low or if rpm too high.

Don't know whom to blame -- if that is at all the right thing to do -- but when I type "compact sports car" in Google, it shows SUVs and CUVs. Sports cars are not what they were.