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I am not being obtuse. I am just genuinely perplexed as to how you can discount the entire possibility of a successor/third gen 86 (or any future vehicle from any manufacturer at all) simply because it hasn't been announced for sale yet. By this metric the manual Supra MKV should not exist...

On this I agree with you especially as to vehicle naming and how it can only partially or not at all line up with the past thing it's supposed to be referencing. The worst possible examples I can think of in recent memory, one of which was already mentioned above are the "Mustang" Mach E...

You're going to have to be a lot more specific than that. I'm not getting what you feel is being over-thought in this discussion. So far whatever Toyota is doing appears to be much more involved than what Acura did by taking the Civic Type R chassis and drivetrain, changing the front and rear...

Usually there isn't a "two door sedan", just a two door coupe or a four door sedan. But Holden's Monaro and the identical Pontiac GTO sort of did this by retaining nearly the same interior dimensions as the Holden Statesman chassis which the Monaro coupe was derived from. If you've ever been...

Toyota has indeed revived their "Celica" trademark and plan to use it again for another coupe. It could be used for this 3rd generation "GR86" or it could be used for whatever the battery EV or hybrid coupe they've been developing (NOT the FT-Se concept or rumored G16 powered "MR2") will turn...

Kirk Kreifels is the only one who has said that. HIS speculation. The guy from Automotive News didn't say that and apparently the Best Car article doesn't say that. All it said in that regard was that Toyota was considering a sport sedan variant since RWD affordable sport sedans are desired as...

^^ The same Bestcar article is covered in far greater detail here. The car is happening... but the exact body design is anyone's guess at the moment. The G16 3-cyl turbo engine getting turned longitudinal for a RWD layout with an in-line hybrid motor and using a Toyota platform which is very...

Hmm... so this new "MR2" is very likely to be powered by the G16E-GTS I-3 turbo engine and will probably have 2WD-only adapted versions of the 6-speed manual transmission and automatic transmission from the GR Yaris. Those are such no-brainer choices for a new MR2 and I'm glad if it turns out...

^^ The back end does not live up to the concept car's back end. It's.... begrudgingly acceptable... if only because of the rest of the package. But it already looks like cheap rental car spec. It's a shame the translation from concept to production didn't get that right. The front end isn't...

^^ This BestCar rendering looks better than the mot recent show car concept. Far less overly busy with a much more cohesive front end design. We'll see what it eventually becomes.

Not a very well written article when the reality of how unavailable any new Supra MKV is at dealer is completely ignored by the author. As has been pointed out above it's mainly a manufacturing volume and supply problem, not a buyer demand problem. ...Although it certainly would help matters...

You're spot on... and as such this is unfortunate for some of us. Updates offering extra "comfort" features and AI driver assist features are of zero interest to me. Getting lightweight bucket seats installed in place of stock very heavy 8-14 way power seats for instance will not be...

I can't say I'm all that enthused about their deeper integration into OTA updates as a replacement for periodic revision changes throughout a model's production run. If they can update the vehicle with feature or refinement changes wirelessly they can also remove some features or functionality...

Toyota is definitely working on a new Celica and it's definitely going to be either a gas-electric hybrid or full battery EV... ...But I still don't see it as being derived from the FT-Se two-seater concept car. That's going to be its own thing. The FT-Se makes a LOT of sense as a new MR2 but...

I found a couple of them after my post. https://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=737734 And this Autoweek article from 2001: https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2122161/no-more-92-premium-octane-rating-drops-california/ Unocal had the answer to the problem but ultimately no one wanted to...

91 octane in California doesn't have to do with 93 being specifically "banned" there. California premium fuel had a 92 octane rating until 2001. MTBE (Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether... which is an octane booster but also a carginogen that can affect ground water) was being phased out at that time...

There are two former Unocal 76 stations near Los Angeles (of of them is in Pasadena) that will sell you VP100 100 octane unleaded race fuel right from the pump and completely street legal. No major fuel system change needed to use it. It's laughably expensive though! The last time I put a...

^^ That thing sounds amazing! And it looks like you were having so much fun blasting around in it! Thanks for sharing the montage!

https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-only-plans-to-make-enough-solid-state-batteries-for-10000-cars-in-2030 This isn't wonderful news but it isn't, to me, bad news either. I hope that Toyota's "under-promise and over-deliver" policy is at play here. However I don't expect that their solid state...

I guess it's possible that all the parts on that Supra that *can* be salvaged might be worth some substantial money... but I'm not sure if everything that can be parted out from that chassis is altogether worth $41k USD. Maybe I'm wrong though... The unibody looks like it is horribly bent up...