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There was all that hype a year or so ago about Google moving their translation engine over to a deep machine learning model. There were supposed to be big improvements - nope. Complete fail.

Certainly as the driver you'll get accustomed to allowing the extra few inches needed for the bottom-door clearance relative to other coupes. But this car's doors are different enough that unsuspecting passengers, if they aren't cautioned, will occasionally be banging into things because they...

^ I try to do that too, but it really is only possible outside of any metropolitan core. In central Toronto you'll be lucky just to find a parking space.

The Z4 does have a protruding horizontal ridge in the lower part of the door, but it doesn't stick out nearly as far as the equivalent area in the Supra render, especially near the door's outer edge where the dings are most likely to occur - in fact on the Z4 the ridge is almost non-existent...

Hard to see how the door can be that extreme IRL. Imagine you pull into a fairly tight parking spot. If the door was relatively flat top to bottom you would have no difficulty seeing how far you can push open that very wide door before you are going to hit the neighbouring car. But if the door...

Apparently Alcantara steering wheels are the worst offenders - they get grungy and can't be cleaned properly.

^ It's being done elsewhere. Fiat ships engines to Japan from Italy for the 124, Honda ships motors for the CTR to England from the US.... Anyways, Toyota can use BMW parts when doing repairs without charging BMW style markups for them (or BMW labour rates), which was my main point. (I agree...

It better not have BMW-priced parts costs. Or BMW-engineered short life cycles for its components.

^ On the front license plate mount - if they had made the central open area in the bumper cover a bit wider a NA license plate could have fit neatly between the two vertical elements. As it stands it will overlap them which won't look as good.

Yup, "cable type" gave the game away. I wonder what the cost would be to develop a variant for RWD... although it may be that this transmission is intended for lower powered cars and could not meet the torque requirements of the Supra.

Really liking the above rendering in white - maybe its' just because it was the original colour of the render so it looks more realistic, but I think white really suits the lines of the car. I'd prefer a white with a bit of pearl or mica over a solid "fridge white".

Spy shots to date clearly indicate only 2 seats - sorry to be the bearer of bad news, there's very little (read: zero) chance of it being a 2+2.

Not all liftbacks are that great - the 370Z's storage is a joke, the trunk floor is so high and the lift back so horizontal that only the first few feet behind the seats have any vertical storage - and some of that is obliterated by an intruding back strut brace. The Supra may not be much better.

Toyota no doubt came to the conclusion on the basis of their marketing research that they'd have a very uphill battle marketing a bigger, more luxurious and powerful Supra GT against the many existing well-established alternatives (e.g. 911, F type, AMG GT) and instead are aiming for a nearly...

Just remembered: Euro regulations do specify a larger minimum size for side mirrors than the North American regulations do - it may be that those mirrors on the snowy prototypes are Euro reg if the photos were taken in Europe, in which case the NA mirrors may be a little more compact. (Compare...

Sure the design may be different, but the actual area of the mirror glass is unlikely to change significantly, Toyota would want to extensively field test mirrors of the planned size for usability reasons before release. They are not going to drop a much smaller mirror on at the last minute.

^ True - but the reality of what Toyota is doing has been known for some months now, heritage fans can only cry over the spilt milk for so long...

Look at the bright side - if the economy really does go into the crapper, you'll be able pick up a new Supra for a nice discount. :D

I've been wondering about that for a while - more specifically, the latest round of spy shots nearly all have the Supra testing alongside the Bimmer prototypes, which may point to a lot of joint or even BMW-led driveline and suspension tuning. It leaves you asking whether all the talk we heard...