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Your example with the IS250 6MT to "IS350" 6MT full conversion with an ECU tune and other electronic tweaks are certainly things we can learn from to this end, Jeff :bow::) I agree. The parts are pretty much all available to acquire and do 90% of a manual conversion to an A90. It's some final...

The Supra GT4 will use the ZF automatic, yes. And almost certainly the GRMN model as well. In my post I referenced them because they are, like a hypothetical 6-speed manual Supra MKV, other variants of the same model platform appealing to different kinds of buyers. While a welcome idea...

^^ This is another very good reason to prefer the Supra (with a manual) as well: high altitude driving. Once above 4500-5000 feet I’ve found most NA cars save very large displacement V8’s to be lacking. My SC300 used to be a complete slug at even lower elevation than that. At 6000ft+ it...

Offer only an automatic transmission in a hyped and popular sportscar and more sales means to execs that no one wants a manual anyway. Less sales means to execs that the car as whole is a failure. There is no good and perfectly clear way to get the message across to Toyota execs that great...

^^ Very disappointing indeed. I expected better from Toyota's last pure gasoline-turbo non-hybrid electric sports car in the transmission option department. This now makes an entire 2020+ BMW M2 Competition 6MT engine, transmission and ECU swap or a 2020+ M3/M4 6MT engine, transmission and ECU...

^^ But Toyota and BMW already did the initial prototype R&D on manual versions of the Z4 and Supra A90 a long while back. That work has been logged already. At least one Toyota engineer spoke on the record about introducing a manual A90 Supra at least for the Japanese market and other nearby...

A couple of problems here: it's not the A90 chassis, doesn't have the B58 turbo engine, doesn't have ANY turbo engine and doesn't and will not have the same horsepower rating as the Supra A90 3.0L Not very helpful "advice" for people actually interested in a manual Supra rather than an 86/BRZ...

I hope you’re right! A70TTR’s news of no manual on the GRMN I wish weren’t the case but I do get it considering it’s that model variant and its track focus (although if a manual GRMN did happen I’d be very happy with that). If we at least get a strong manual gearbox option on any other I-6...

No manual on the GRMN... disappointing but... ok. I did more or less expect that and I get it given the track machine focus and intention for that trim level. ...Just so long as a regular trim level manual gets released with the standard 3.0L engine. I would think that's a modest and...

^^ Some people are going to want to swap to more aggressive bucket seats in this car. I don’t doubt it that BMW’s ECU coding would make this a pain. Maybe more aggressive specialty bucket seats from limited run track special M2’s and M3/4’s could be made to play nicely with the MKV?

Oof... that Reddit post hits hard. “Fidget stick”.... :/

A 7-10% projected (not measured in actual sales) take rate for a manual SUPRA does not seem like it would be based on accurate metrics. I agree. That’s still enough of a projection to go ahead and offer manuals on both the 2.0T and 3.0T. A manual low powered Corolla and manual average Tacoma...

^^ Thank you for your opinion. This is pretty much in line with what I have observed so far as well: some exceptional EV conversions to muscle cars and/or sports cars with some real power (and even some that completely irrationally but delightfully retain stick shifts, lol) but the best...

A70, I know it's not going to be for everyone (not to mention the costs involved) but do you have any personal opinion on the viability of fully electric converting (with appropriate replacement of original horsepower at minimum) the classic sportscars and muscle cars we all love as a way of...

The Corvette C8 not offering a manual is very disappointing in itself. Perhaps that has more to do with the actual market for Corvette buyers. Still, I believe a 21% manual take rate was the last recent figure? That is significant enough to have still offered it in manual. GM and Tremec did...

Toyota right now has this window where they CAN make a manual fifth generation Supra happen. Much like the rest of the automotive world, at this moment in time they can still offer the option in the sports car and driver oriented models that make sense to offer it in. But eventually that won't...

But what class are you speaking of in your comment above? Are you focusing on mainstream sedans or two seater driver-centric sports cars? Which one? I am confused. I do agree with you that people don't typically if ever cross-shop sports cars and minivans/SUVs. No one really does that. It...

Read that news yesterday about the G80 M3 keeping a manual for now. Definitely good to hear it confirmed! I hope they state the same for the M2.

I'm also perplexed as to how we got onto any comparison of the Tesla Model 3 to a Corvette C8 or Supra MKV in any way at all. Don't get me wrong. In addition to cars like the Supra, etc. I am also in favor EV technology. But the Tesla Model 3 is a soon-to-be driverless taxicab sedan that you...

Personally I don't agree. While well designed DCT's are very good I am similarly disappointed and turned off that the Corvette C8 doesn't have a manual transmission. Like the new Supra it's a great car in so many other aspects and that is what makes it frustrating. No one has any trouble...