Okay, I need to tweak that translation a little bit. When asked when will the Supra go on sale, Tada-san said that they already announced (at the reveal) it'll be early 2019. But before that, they will make a prototype available for test driving (by who is not clear), whereby they will use the...
It was the same way when the GT-R came out. Right before the reveal, Best Car had a dead ringer rendering. I bet they get shown the real thing beforehand and they are allowed to release it right before the official showing.
No, your Japanese person is wrong. He/she probably mistook it because the next sentence went right on to say "If somebody wants similar performance of the JZA80, then the 3liter turbo would be the choice, but the 2l model would still be fun." Anyway, the preceding sentences quote the top speeds...
No, it actually says 3 liter dohc straight six turbo, with the 8 speed AT, will do 4.8 sec. The engine does 326ps in the BMW but will do 340 in the Supra.
Well they did mention the 0-100kmh stats in case nobody's posted them: 6.6 seconds, 5.4 seconds, and 4.8 seconds for the 3l turbo. So if those are true, wonder what the curb weight is. I mean, do they jive with what curb weights they quoted?
I'm kind of hoping those leaked drivetrain information is for their domestic market models and elsewhere, whereas they have a more promising drivetrain for the US market. But of course, I doubt it.
You know, in looking at that spec table of the five generations of Supras, it dawned on me that they consider 340ps to be progress, because they show 280ps for the MKIV, which is of course was rated that because of the gentlemen's agreement at the time. But for us here, since the MKIV was quoted...