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Chevy really came through on the C8 overall. They made the leap to mid engine and have improved everything. And for a $60k starting price... not bad. The driver cockpit is exactly what the Supra MKV should have had from the start. Although that long line of buttons to the right is out of...

There is one other interesting bit of news with Toyota and inline sixes and that is Mazda's recent luxury RWD coupe and sedan platform with their own family of Skyactiv-X inline six engines up to 3.0L I think. Toyota apparently wants to tie up with Mazda for the use of both the chassis...

Regarding transmissions: At current time we have no choice but to give the ZF8 8HP automatic a chance. By all accounts it's one of the very best performance automatics in the entire world. And I truly do think it's wonderful that the Supra MKV has it! However given where the industry is...

^^ As am I similarly happy we now have the Supra MKV in its current form. The additional options and variants should be no trouble for Toyota, since this is a passion project for them. I also have high hopes for a future MKVI Supra which will no doubt be hybrid or full EV with even better...

^^ This. Toyotawild's prediction will happen eventually. Just not at current time. To get a Supra car design into sales before several global regulations would have made a loud, non-hybrid gas-turbocharged inline six Supra in a chassis that isn't bloated and laden with semi-autonomous...

^^ This. Thank you Jeff. NEW Toyotas have not been produced with JZ engines for years now and never will be again but Toyota still makes replacement JZ blocks and short block assemblies, various JZ heads and many, many other parts for them and to an extent some of the parts for vehicles that...

Regarding auto vs manual... statistics of one over the other don’t mean anything to me. Either this car offers a manual at reasonable price and volume at some point in the production cycle or it doesn’t. Statistics won’t convince me to suddenly not want a manual transmission in a two seater...

$100k listed price on a $58k MSRP vehicle? Even as hard as these are to come by at current time that's just hilarious.

^^ Yep. ASC (American Specialty Cars or American Sunroof Company) had quite a long history of specialty model trims convertibles or otherwise through the 1980's. Better widely known for their tie up with McLaren back then too (Buick GNX, ASC-McLaren Mustangs and a few other notable models)...

^^ Seriously. Way more people have been clamoring for a manual Supra than a targa Supra. And I get it that the very body structure (strong enough for the Z4's convertible top) is more than rigid enough to handle a targa configuration already. But the R&D has been done for both the elusive...

Thanks for clearing that up! So then it does seem that the regular manifold variant will be a possibility for a future Supra trim level. Thank you for addressing this, A70! If I did not accurately recall any of what you'd mentioned months ago and thus misquoted you by mistake then my...

^^ To your point, sometime back A70 had mentioned the current B58 in the Supra which has the integrated exhaust manifold was tested by the development team in at least one prototype car up to 600-700hp. No mention of what was done to get there, how well it ran or what the expected lifespan loss...

Four years? If that is true then it would likely be cutting right to the latter end of the window when a manual 2.0 and 3.0 can be offered at all depending on where tightening emission and fuel economy regulations are at that point. I hope that fellow is just in the dark like the rest of us...

Are you certain of this? If so what is your source for this information?

I couldn't have said it better myself. Toyota already has the super fast ZF8 automatic on sale now for those who want it. This is a completely illogical car which went through an (in traditional conventional terms) illogical development process in order to keep it affordable and focused as a...

With the general direction the auto industry is going right now I'm all for this. Let's see a Mazda-Toyota collaboration to replace the Mark X RWD sedan with an I6 and to do a Lexus RWD coupe with an I6 (a real SC300 successor?) that doesn't cost $100k+

Toyota's feelings on "if there is enough buyer demand for a manual Supra" aside.... THIS ^^ It should be offered because it is already within the window of years remaining that *allow* it to be offered at all. With this iconic car of theirs which has fans worldwide a 3.0L turbo manual variant...

I figure if the 1986-1987 Buick Grand National with its 3.8L V6 turbo engine still has the enormous respect that it's garnered from when they were new and if Cadillac can make 464hp V6-TT powered ATS-V's with stick shifts then the Camaro can have its own very powerful V6-TT engine option in the...

Wow. Maybe GM needs to consider an alternative global engine for their Camaro which can match the 6.2L pushrod's power. I hear Cadillac has more twin turbo V6 engines than they know what to do with. Shove one of those in there to continue sales. It would be different from a naturally...

Next-gen Supra A100 "could throw tradition out the window" https://leftlanenews.com/toyota/next-gen-toyota-supra-could-throw-tradition-out-the-window/ And further detail in the source article here (focusing much more on the reasons why the A90 wasn't developed totally in-house due to...