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Poll is interesting. Should be a $50k-$60k Corvette or 911 competitor, like the FT1 concept was supposed to be. For $50-$60k, I'd rather just buy the Cayman than a Toyota Cayman competitor. Maybe a $60-70k, old-as-the-hills Nissan GTR competitor. Not something that beats the GTR but competes...

Other brands can do it, or make even more power for marginally more, no reason Nissan or Toyota couldn't offer this for a similar price. I haven't looked at the Z in a long time, but I did love my G35. Nissan typically builds a cheap product but it's typically a good product.

Believable. Kinda sad though, this car is still 1.5 years out, perhaps even longer till they start hitting the street.

It should be a turbo 6 of some sort. That's what all the competition has. Turbo 8 would be too spendy for Toyota.

Just 135 more days... I hope!

Not sure what he's on about with the size thing. But the rest is pretty spot-on. FT1 was exotic sportscar but all the rumors suggest we're just getting boy racer. Supra is to mean "above" and should be a halo sportscar, not some sporty Z car competitor. At the time, the Supra performed...

Yeah that makes the most sense. Especially given that TMS is every two years. Display in Oct of 17 for a hopefully mid-late 2018 release of a 2019 model year car. Funny article, sad they are calling the SFR and Corolla GTI "sports cars." :puke:

If they're benchmarking the M2, what a tremendous disappointment. It really does look like that though. Guessing those are both manufacturer plates of some sort but I don't really know. And yeah it's all a rehash of old speculation. I'm still in the wait-and-see mindset, but it's not...

In theory Toyota could show their car at Pebble too. FT1 was displayed on the concept car lawn, but it didn't debut there. Funny how since the last interview where the guy said "it was never going to be called Z5" they're all correcting themselves to Z4. The Z5 speculation just kept getting...

Few things on my list. On the lower end: Ford GT350R, perhaps next GT500 Porsche 911, probably an S Nissan GT-R, but they're just so old now and price keeps going up Porsche GT4, but I think that's a long way off If I can swing it: Porsche GT3, GT3 RS McLaren 570 Mercedes AMG GTC, GTR

Why would a Toyota get BMW i-Drive? This doesn't make sense. They're still very clearly pulling stuff out of a parts bin, for testing or whatever purposes. Why would BMW allow a 3rd party product to share explicit BMW parts and features? Next thing they're going to put all their knobs and...

Old guy. Same guy who bought this:

The Japs are incredibly conservative when it comes to these projects, or at least they have been for the past couple decades. It either has to be a high volume money maker or some ridiculous over the top technological tour de force or they are unwilling. Honda just barely got its very...

Gives us some hope that once the camo and bulbous cladding comes off, it should be a pretty sleek, well proportioned car.

Nice to hear some real commentary from a real source. Funny his comments about how someone made up the name Z5, and that it was never going to be the Z5. Virtually all of the articles and "sources" described the car as the forthcoming "Z5" and it was pretty much accepted as a given, taken for...

For that much money, why would they have to sacrifice? Shelby GT350 starts at $56k and doesn't have to sacrifice. Corvette starts at $55k and doesn't have to sacrifice. Etc. etc. Hybrid, sure, they could make it a prius for $25k or whatever those cost. But yeah, for $55k-65k, I don't think...

For what it's worth, without the joint BMW platform, this car might not have happened at all.

A smaller car drives better. The concept was grossed up for stage presence, not for driving dynamics or passenger comfort. 3,400?? Sub 3k lbs is what we want, and what was advertised back in....sigh... 2014. It's completely doable considering the 2+2 Porsche 911 has a curb weight of 3,175...

I have a hard time believing it would be $70-80k. Toyota does sell the Landcruiser in that range but overall that just seems too spendy for a Toyota, particularly if they want to sell many. If this wasn't supposed to be mass-production, and just an expensive limited edition halo car, it...

Cayman is setting the bar awfully low. For the concept the benchmark was the 911.