Anyone thinking a GRMN Supra would cost $70-80k is borderline delusional. No idea what Toyota would do engine wise, be it a massaged S58 or a thoroughly worked over B58, but GRMN cars are low volume, quite a bit of CF, thorough suspension work and pricey. I honestly expect it landing $85-95k if...
I don't think the current RC will be around until 2030, in fact it's hard to see it being here much past 2024/25.
Either way, that car will be whatever they are going to be representing it's GT3 hardware in the line up. Whether that's above or below the LC well :dunno:
I've seen this, but tbh, what makes sense for a racing car might not be practical or economically viable for a street car. For all we know, that engine might be dry sumped and have custom modifications to the front sub frame.
Cool concept for sure, but I'd love to see under the hood.
Toyota have been mucking about with this conceptual design for a while.
They showed a "Simulated manual" Auto transmission in the GR HV concept.
Seems like most editors and commenters are actually railing this pretty hard. I think it's a novel concept. If well done it could actually be a heap...
Footnote, the global Yaris is *not* based on the Mazda 2 platform.
And as @F1 Silver Arrows mentioned, The GR Yaris was backed by a Multi-Million dollar racing program where if we are being real, was not only about Toyota/Toyoda saying "lol fkoff, we can build properly brilliant sports cars by...
100%. If it's being designed/built to go racing, the is absolutely no way, nor any reason for it to have a manual transmission. Not even a DCT. Sequential box it'll be.