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Also: Seats are different, nicer ribbed seats on the 124. And the 124's manual transmission is from the previous-generation Miata. I think the auto trans is a shared component as well.

A Detroit debut is highly doubtful. The NAIAS, despite its name, is really a 2nd-tier domestic show now, and I can't see any major Japanese automaker launching a new halo car there. BMW, VW, Porsche, Mercedes, and Audi aren't even showing up next year.

3500 lbs? :rofl: If the 45k car weighs 3500 lbs it's DOA, a complete non-starter. Hell, the 10 year old, 330 hp 370Z weighs 3292 lbs and can be had for $29,000 CAD.

Nice small wheel gap there, none of the 4X4 nonsense you see on a lot of other cars (looking at you, BRZ/86).

How that abomination of a re-style ever got approved is beyond me. Have they never heard of focus groups? Heads need to roll, blood needs to flow.

Maybe it will work, as I said some cars look so much better IRL. I did not like the looks of the Miata RF at all until I saw it at a dealer.

Yes and no - the pillars have a substantial chrome strip overlay running their full length so even though the pillars are black the roof doesn't look like it's floating. That car still looks incredible, no surprise that they cost a fortune.

I wasn't aware Toyota was making blacked out A pillars a feature these days - Toyota's styling has been so poor recently I haven't given it any attention (except for the 86, and look what they did to that with the refresh). So you're probably right, the Supra will likely have them too.

Lots of things on the FT1 that were unconventional don't appear on the prototypes. Blacked-out A pillars are not conventional either, so there is some likelihood they will not be there when the wrap comes off.

^ They will need to do a better job of winterproofing them that's for sure. No-one wants frozen windows on their expensive toy.

+1. Not a fan of the black A pillars that give the roof a weirdly detached look, but I doubt those will be on the production car. And those headlights aren't attractive. If you consider sports cars most people find beautiful like the 911 or the Astons, they all have great looking headlights...

Nice rendering job. Some cars look much better in real life than they do in renders or photos. I really hope the Supra turns out to be one of them.

It was driving so slowly on the Nords in that last video I wondered if the driver had fallen asleep....

Actually what you describe is exactly what I'd like to see, I have no interest in a Corvette class car. But even a 300 hp version should have 18" wheels.

For most brands you can't do a simple currency rate conversion to figure out how much a US car will cost based on Canadian pricing. When the USD costs $1.29 CDN, as it does now, the premium for a car here in Canada usually ranges from 10-20% over US prices, depending on brand and model - most...

Might be a JDM only option, like the stripper GT86 you used to be able to get there.

Difficult to see how any production trim will be sold with 17" wheels. That's what you get on a Miata and an 86. This car will cost far more.

Telling you that would probably violate his NDA, pricing will remain a closely guarded secret until release. I used to think upper 40s CAD for the initial base model, but more recent "info" suggests it's more likely mid 50s, i.e. base Vette pricing which for me is too big a gap from a 31k 86.

These are older photos - I recognize the guy on the street with his cellphone from a while ago.

No. Non. Nein. Does anyone really think the test engineers are going to do something that egregiously stupid? What you are seeing is just an artifact of the oblique lighting creating shadows.