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I hope this bodes well for both Lexus and Toyota having their own variants with this chassis. The engine in that test mule, great as it sounds, is not what I'd expect in a Supra variant.... assuming the Supra won't actually be going 100% electric with the A100 generation as has been recently...

^^ Since my SC300 currently has that same drivetrain at stock boost (albeit with an R154 5-speed but with the overall gearing made about the same with a different custom final drive ratio) with about 200lbs more weight than the stock MKIV TT I found this test to be very interesting. Stock for...

Personally I've had a good laugh about the fake vents thing on A90's. I never cared and still don't care when the rest of the car is pretty good as it is ? They didn't have to make the Supra in the first place to maintain the sales of their volume models. Similarly they didn't have to make the...

I'm just an enthusiast like you who loves special and fun cars and has for a long time. I'm not in the auto industry. I just know what I like in cars and read a lot of auto industry and technology news to keep myself informed. A shift away from traditional gasoline and diesel fuels is...

In the immediate future I also think this will be the reality for most people. New hybrids are going to be with us from now through 2035. Full electric options (100% battery or hydrogen fuel cell + small battery) will increase but those will only work for people wherever the EV charging and H2...

^^ We are definitely going to need more nuclear power generation going forward. And fusion is still decades off from true viability. 2050 maybe...? So that leaves different forms of fission nuclear. And we can right now use ready to go better alternatives to the old enriched uranium nuclear...

^^ You both bring up very good points and I agree that as to *current* charging infrastructure, H2 refueling infrastructure, the *current* state of the electrical grid and power plants, *current* commercialized and large scale use H2 production methodologies and *current* battery pack...

The "loony teenagers" you're referring to aren't off in their strong concerns about climate change and warming due to CO2 concentration in the atmosphere at its current rate. We can ignore that entirely and let it get much harder in coming decades than it already will be or we can take some...

^^ We will see. Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised and maybe not. Apparently this will now be the last pure gasoline turbo Supra in a traditional layout with a manual and auto on offer... so if Toyota wants to send off this style of car with a huge bang they have options to do so... should...

The high costs of new car models... plus markups... plus the general state of the price of pretty much everything these days... all does make even the most normal car purchases more challenging for most people. On Toyota's EVs, the BZ4X was just not a very good attempt on their part. They...

Then here's a thought: If Toyota doesn't get BMW's coveted S58 engine as a drop-in upgrade then what if the GRMN spec Supra instead takes the B58D engine (or TU version) to Motomachi or Yamaha and then significantly reworks it themselves.... albeit in quite limited numbers since this way of...

While their goal is for hydrogen... which will take considerably more time to perfect for the vehicles, build out as to refueling infrastructure and ultimately on the cleanly produced H2 production side... isn't the Lexus brand in particular going mostly EV model by model over the next 10+ years...

As long as the main GR vehicle line still stands for purpose built in-house or co-developed performance vehicles (GR Sport is different of course) then the division will still do well. Toyota was already going to market more "GR Sport" badged vehicles which will not be full-bore GR cars like...

I would LOVE to see even one generation of a co-developed Mazda 6 / Toyota Chaser with Mazda's inline-six engine. It's not much to go on but there was at least one Toyota GR press or engineering employee who said a single little blurb about whether or not we'd like to see a GR sedan model...

Agreed on the GRMN Supra MKV not being very available or obtainable. It'll be a first if it makes it out of Japan... and even if it does I can't imagine very many being made per year. That it is happening I think is a given at this point. An EV Supra is pretty much a given as well... although...

*Should* an S58 powered Supra have a manual? Yes, of course as an option next to whatever auto or DCT is likely also planned. *Will* it have a manual...? I'm not going to hold my breath given that the GRMN is more of an ultimate track monster variant but here's hoping it gets both options since...

The Tesla-ish front bumper is out of character... and those tail lights aren't 300ZX-ish. They're more Dodge Challenger-ish. The classic enclosed round MKIV tail lights would be better. Nissan sort of still emulated a little of the Skyline GT-R 32, 33 and 34 round tail lights in their R35...

To me this is a positive. Depends on each individual design of course.

Prices for the components will come down gradually. 1/4 Million USD is out of any sane person's price range. Most EV conversions yielding that kind of performance usuallyhover in the $70K USD price range at current time (not including the cost of the donor car). To do it right, anyway. I...